SW US mine rush collides with water limits
Washington’s push to mine more copper and lithium in the U.S. Southwest is running into a harder limit than permitting: whether projects can secure enough water to operate for decades…
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SW US CEO chat: Gunnison Copper seeks government cash and partner
Gunnison Copper’s (TSX: GCU; US-OTC: GCUMF) role in helping reduce U.S. dependence on imported red metal now turns more on how it’s financed than on the rocks in Arizona. Backed…
Tungsten surge transforms Northcliff’s Sisson economics
Northcliff Resources’ (TSX: NCF; US-OTC: NCFFF) new feasibility study for the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick puts its post-tax value at more than four times the cost to build…
Podcast: Gold dealers face ‘credit crunch’, ft CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian
This week’s episode features Jeffrey Christian, managing partner at CPM Group, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the broader macroeconomic factors affecting the gold market. Christian discusses the implications…
Eldorado eyes bigger McIlvenna Bay copper mill
Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) is studying a 43% expansion of its McIlvenna Bay processing plant and a new silver-lead circuit as the Saskatchewan copper-zinc-gold-silver mine ramps towards commercial…
China’s biggest lithium mine loses licence
Analysts nearly halve CATL’s Jianxiawo output forecast for the year as environmental hurdles delay a sustained return to production.
Sponsored video: Gold miner Erdene outlines Mongolia exploration along regional belt
Erdene Resource Development (TSX: ERD; US-OTC: ERDCF), which produces gold from Mongolia’s Bayan Khundii mine through a 50:50 joint venture with Mongolian Mining, is advancing exploration along the region’s Central…
Sponsored video: AME urges tax fix to advance projects
A gap in Canada’s exploration tax incentives is making it harder to finance the studies needed to turn mineral discoveries into mines, the Vancouver-based Association for Mineral Exploration says in…
BHP commercial chief exits amid China iron ore strain
BHP (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) chief commercial officer Rag Udd will leave the world’s largest miner at the end of January, opening a key leadership vacancy as China intensifies pressure…
SW US CEO chat: Hudbay builds copper giant
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) says it can build two of the largest planned U.S. copper mines without issuing equity, thanks to a financing package backed by offtaker Mitsubishi, streamer…
Editorial: The money is already here
Despite a sharp escalation in the Canada-U.S. trade dispute, global investors are already voting with their wallets ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sept. 14-15 investment summit in Toronto. Total…
Drone wars deepen West’s critical minerals squeeze
Drones deployed in the Russia-Ukraine war account for an estimated 4% of global germanium demand, adding pressure to a small critical minerals market dominated by China, according to BMO Capital…
Sibanye OKs copper-gold projects on two continents
Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW; NYSE: SBSW) has approved its Mt Lyell copper-gold project in Tasmania and Burnstone gold project in South Africa, advancing two long-life developments as stronger metals prices boost…
SW US CEO chat: Energy Fuels pivots to rare earths
Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR; NYSE-A: UUUU) is increasingly pinning its future on rare earths rather than uranium, with the Colorado‑based miner now expecting most of its earnings to come from…
ACG starts copper concentrate output in Turkey
ACG Metals (LSE: ACG) produced the first copper concentrate from its Gediktepe mine in Turkey, marking its transition from precious metals as it targets full sulphide production by the end…
The Northern Miner Podcast
Podcast: Gold dealers face ‘credit crunch’, ft CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian
Podcast: Reuters’ Andy Home on declining copper and aluminum inventories on the LME
Podcast: Mineral War — China’s grand plan to dominate metals markets, ft Tomasz Nadrowski
Podcast: Wheaton Precious Metals CEO Haytham Hodaly on the evolution of the streaming model
Opinion/Commentary
Global Mining Symposium
London Symposium: Ontario’s focus on fast-track, refining wins industry praise
Ontario’s push to OK major projects in less than two years and keep more mineral processing at home stunned industry heavyweights at The Northern Miner’s International Metals Symposium in London. “We’re moving with speed,” provincial Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce…
London Symposium video: Rick Rule on gold
The surging gold price over the past two years marks a catch-up based on a bull market going back to 2000 that few recognized then, veteran investor Rick Rule says…
London Symposium video: Gold has room to run
The sustained gold price could attract a new wave of retail investors including cryptocurrency backers and technology stock holders, gold company executives say in a new video. Bullion touched a…