Montage Gold gains on Lundin-backed financing
Montage Gold (TSXV: MAU; US-OTC: MAUTF) hired a new CEO and nearly doubled a Lundin Group-backed stock offering to fund the US$712 million Koné gold project in Côte d’Ivoire. Toronto-based…
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Iron ore boom of the 2000s repeating – this time with critical metals
A headline published in The Age back in July 2003 reads: “[Andrew] Forrest has a grand $1.2bn plan for tiny Perth mining company.” That company was called Allied Mining and…
Surge Battery declares highest-grade lithium clay resource in US
Surge Battery Metals (TSXV: NILI; US-OTC: NILIF) says its main lithium project in Nevada holds the highest-grade U.S. clay resource. The shares jumped. The initial resource for the Nevada North…
Red Cloud’s Talbot shares his top uranium picks
With investors flocking into the uranium space over the past year as the spot price has doubled, we asked David Talbot, Red Cloud Securities managing director and head of equity…
Zinnwald lithium project in Germany now EU’s 2nd largest
Shares in Germany-focused Zinnwald Lithium (LSE: ZNWD) soared on Wednesday after it posted a 445% increase to resources at its the namesake project in the eastern state of Saxony. The update…
Video: Ex-Sprott CEO at SCP Resource Finance explains commodities vs stocks divergence
Peter Grosskopf, the former CEO of Sprott who turned its investment banking unit into a separate company focused on junior mining stocks, says large institutional investors are handicapped by liquidity…
Perseus Mining confident of winning ok for OreCorp takeover
Perseus Mining (TSX: PRU; ASX: PRU) is far from giving up on its intended acquisition of OreCorp (ASX: ORR), saying on Monday it was confident of receiving unconditional approval from…
Metals Acquisition IPO Down Under goes over forecast
Metals Acquisition (NYSE: MTAL.U) has raised A$325 million ($285 million) through a new listing in Australia that will help pay for the billion-dollar purchase of the CSA copper mine there. The…
Cash crunch has junior miners feeling ‘despondent’
According to Mining Intelligence data, mining financings tumbled by around 13% last year, after falling a precipitous 45% the previous year. Numbers from the Prospectors and Developers Association aren’t in…
Video: Power Nickel CEO sounds the alarm on naked short-selling
A battle for transparency and the survival of junior mining companies against market manipulation is playing out in real-time, Power Nickel (TSXV: PNPN; US-OTC: PNPNF) CEO Terry Lynch says. Lynch…
Video: Fundraising data reveal ‘bifurcated’ junior mining market
Despite the gloomy sentiment in the junior mining sector, Kai Hoffman, CEO of Soar Financial says last year was actually pretty good in terms of total funds raised. However, Hoffman,…
Video: How Exploration Insights is zeroing in on undervalued mid-sized juniors
Brent Cook, economic geologist and advisor to the Exploration Insights newsletter, shares how the EI portfolio did in 2023 and why it’s focusing more on mid-sized companies. Cook, who spoke…