Canada’s Horizons Copper ETF ready to trade live
The Horizons ETF Copper Producers Index ETF (TSX: COPP) is set to go live for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on May 17, providing a new option for investors…
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Mining in Africa Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Africa is home to bountiful reserves of metals such as gold, copper, and lithium. The continent also offers mineral exploration and development companies with large areas of underexplored terrain as…
Mining Indaba: Global fractures over Russia-Ukraine war trigger big policy, market shifts – Veracity Worldwide
Russia’s war on Ukraine is dividing the global order along fault lines, and Africa risks being caught in the middle, the Investing in Africa Mining Indaba heard this week. Veracity…
Int’l Battery Metal’s mobile lithium extraction plant running soon
International Battery Metals (CSE: IBAT; US-OTC: IBATF) has successfully completed the systems and safety testing for what would be the world’s first commercial-scale mobile lithium extraction plant. The modular plant…
Mining Indaba: African leaders talk up policy reform and regional cooperation
The Investing in Africa Mining Indaba heard that African leaders are waking up to the fact that the continent stands at the precipice of a generational opportunity to reinvent itself…
Elon Musk says buying a mining company ‘not out of the question’
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has said that it was not “out of the question” for the company to enter the mining business, as the world’s largest electric vehicle…
Argentina expects US$4.2B investment in its lithium sector
Argentina expects to receive a US$4.2-billion combined investment in its growing lithium market in the next five years, which would help the country double production in 2023 to hit 175,000…
Glencore to invest US$200M in battery recycling firm Li-Cycle
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has inked a deal with Toronto-based Li-Cycle Holdings (NYSE: LICY) to supply the company with all types of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company…
Q&A: SRK Consulting unpacks critical opportunities and challenges facing the African mining sector
SRK Consulting has built deep experience working in the African mining sector and has developed a firm grasp of where potential opportunities are and some of the critical challenges preventing…
Snow Lake drills 1.49% LiO2 over 34.5 metres in Manitoba
Snow Lake Lithium (NASDAQ: LITM) has released the first results of winter drilling at the northeast extension of its Thompson Brothers (TBL) spodumene pegmatite deposit located in northwest Manitoba. These…
Historic Tanco mine in Manitoba producing lithium again – but this time under China’s Sinomine
More than a decade after shutting down lithium production, the Tanco mine in Manitoba started producing lithium spodumene concentrate in December, the mine’s facility general manager Joey Champagne told The…
Rosatom, Nornickel to develop lithium project in Russia
Russia’s state-owned nuclear power supplier Rosatom and Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of refined nickel, are fine-tuning details of a plan to develop a lithium deposit in the country’s northwest,…