Chalice reduces board, costs amid nickel slump
Australia’s Chalice Mining (ASX: CHN) is the latest nickel player forced to cut costs amid a sharp decline in the metal’s price. Chalice announced a series of measures on Friday…
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SQM profit falls 63%, sees more weak lithium prices
Chile’s SQM (NYSE: SQM), the world’s second-biggest lithium producer, reported a sharp 63% decline in quarterly profit on the back of slumping prices of the key metal used in the…
Heavy rains to threaten 25% of world’s copper projects by 2050
Copper extraction is crucial to the energy transition, but a quarter of sites mining the metal face a rising threat from the impacts of climate change by mid-century, according to…
Victoria Gold CEO McConnell axed
Victoria Gold (TSXV: VGCX) CEO John McConnell has lost his job, the CBC reports. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the firm handling Victoria’s Eagle mine in the Yukon after it was forced into receivership…
Video: ‘Grade smearing’ top junior sector misdeed, Brent Cook says
Retail investors can struggle to make sense of drill results, but some junior mining explorers make things worse with misleading reporting practices that inflate the value of their projects, industry…
Gold Fields to buy Osisko in US$1.6B cash deal
South Africa’s Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI; JSE: GFI) is buying Canada’s Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) in a deal valued at $2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) as record-breaking prices for the precious…
Arizona Sonoran Copper PEA quadruples Cactus project’s net present value
Company shares jumped 35% Thursday after a new preliminary economic assessment envisioning Arizona Sonoran Copper’s (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) Cactus project as a standalone open-pit mine raised the net present…
Qatar joins US in backing privately held critical minerals play TechMet
Since inception, TechMet has invested more than $450 million into projects across North and South America, Europe and Africa.
Glencore scraps coal exit plan on investors’ pressure
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) followed shareholder opposition and scrapped on Wednesday plans to separate its coal division, which it had announced following its acquisition of assets last year from Teck Resources…
Glencore to pay US$152M in bribery case
Commodities giant was fined by Swiss authorities for not preventing a business partner from bribing a Congolese official in 2011.
Confusion and consternation on critical minerals
What started out as optimism two years ago when the federal government turned its eye to critical minerals, introducing a strategy, incentives and funding, and pledging faster permitting for mines,…
Site visit: Permit builds buyout promise at huge KSM gold-copper project, Seabridge says
Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SAKSM) has long been seen as a juicy takeover candidate for its huge KSM gold-copper deposit, but its remote, mountainous location in British Columbia, US$6.4-billion…