Nickel

Drillers working at Wellgreen Platinum's namesake PGM-nickel project the southern Yukon. Credit: Wellgreen Platinum

Wellgreen Platinum scales down PGM project

Wellgreen Platinum (TSX: WG; US-OTC: WGPLF) has delivered an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Wellgreen platinum group metals and nickel deposit, in the southern Yukon, that cuts capital costs and the project’s mine…


Westcore Drilling's Hector Hewlin plies his trade at North American Nickel's Maniitsoq polymetallic project in southwestern Greenland. Credit: North American Nickel

North American Nickel gears up for work at Maniitsoq

VANCOUVER — North American Nickel (TSX-V: NAN; US-OTC: WSCRF) is making headway advancing its Maniitsoq nickel-copper-cobalt-platinum group metals property on the coast of southwestern Greenland, 85 km north of the capital Nuuk.



The head frame at First Nickel's Lockerby nickel-copper mine in Sudbury, Ontario. Credit: First Nickel

First Nickel slashes jobs at Lockerby mine

First Nickel (TSX: FNI; US-OTC: FNKLF) is cutting 109 jobs at its Lockerby nickel-copper mine in Ontario’s Sudbury basin, as part of a restructuring plan to lower costs, resume exploration and extend the mine’s life. 


Equipment at Ivanhoe Mines' Platreef platinum project in South Africa. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe tables prefeasibility study on Platreef PGM project

In Ivanhoe Mines’ (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) first-ever conference call on its massive Platreef project in South Africa, executive chairman and company founder Robert Friedland declared that the orebody “is destined to change the…


A stockpile at BHP Billiton's Illawarra metallurgical coal-mining complex in New South Wales, Australia. Illawarra will be part of the South32 spinoff. Credit: BHP Billiton

BHP spinoff South32 to launch in mid-2015

BHP Billiton’s (LSE: BLT) spinoff company will be named South32, a nod to the location of its assets  in the southern hemisphere and a more cryptic salute to the location of its main offices in Australia and South Africa.






A worker inspects zinc ingots at Nyrstar's Overpelt zinc smelting plant in Belgium. Credit: Nyrstar

Wood Mac sees stronger prices for copper, nickel, zinc

Falling energy and metal prices are leaving many investors in the mining space anxious about what lies in store next year. Julian Kettle, head of metals and mining research at Wood Mackenzie in London, recently took time to speak to The…


Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics and commodity market specialist at Scotiabank.

Scotiabank’s Patricia Mohr looks ahead to 2015

Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics and commodity market specialist at Scotiabank in Toronto, will release her metal price forecasts for 2015 in her annual year-end report at the end of December. But she agreed to share some of her…


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