Does mining need saving?
Some issues of The Northern Miner are more fun to put together than others. Our March 2024 edition, unfortunately, offers a sobering read. It’s filled with news of shuttered mines…
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Patriot Battery Metals aims to fast-track Corvette lithium production
Patriot Battery Metals (TSX: PMET; ASX: PMT) has leveraged its management’s experience in Australia — the world’s largest lithium producer — to make lightning-fast progress at its Corvette project in…
Feds must force pensions to fund Canadian mining, Lassonde, Giustra say
Ottawa has to pressure pension funds to invest billions in Canadian mining, a radical change from their almost non-existent stakes, if the industry is ever going to produce enough metals…
Newmont to sell mines in Canada, Australia after Newcrest buy
Newmont (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) says it plans to sell six inessential assets including mines in Quebec, Ontario, the Yukon and Western Australia to cut debt. The list contains the…
Global exploration snapshot: Eight companies seeking copper, precious metals and more
As explorers continue to hunt for precious metals and critical minerals needed for the green energy transition, their pursuit takes them to every corner of the world. Here are eight…
Agnico Eagle taps Mexico workforce for Macassa
As miners struggle to find skilled labour, few companies are open about hiring workers outside Canada to meet their needs. Few that is, except for Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM;…
Optimism for metals clashes with reality for juniors ahead of PDAC
Increasing funding for battery metal and uranium projects versus gold brings home the global energy transition but big financing deals for preproduction companies have almost disappeared, new figures show ahead…
Mexico’s president proposes ban on open pit mining, says it ‘transgresses human rights’
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has proposed a series of constitutional reforms, including a ban on open-pit mining. Speaking before parliament, López Obrador argued that open-pit…
Billion-dollar Canada Nickel plants would boost Ontario processing for EV supplies
Canada Nickel (TSXV: CNC; US-OTC: CNIKF) says it plans to build two metal processing plants that could cost more than US$1 billion to serve the world’s largest nickel sulphide project it’s…
Mining some tales with… Claudia Tornquist
Mining some tales with… Claudia Tornquist Every month, The Northern Miner gets to know a different executive in the mining industry by asking them about everything — except mining. This…
Big backers see promise in Nunavut gold
BG Gold, flush with $8.2 million in a new private capital raising from major industry investors, is preparing to drill this spring at its Whale Cove project in Nunavut. …
How LFP batteries brought EV metal markets back to earth
When Elon Musk first announced Tesla’s move to LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries in February 2020, many were skeptical. LFP didn’t seem to fit with Tesla’s luxury and sporty carmaker…