MINING.COM’s top 50 mining companies
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows an industry clawing back most of the Covid-19 related losses by the end of the second…
2020
ScoZinc plans low-cost, open-pit zinc mine near Halifax
ScoZinc Mining (TSXV: SZM) has released the results of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS) on its wholly owned and permitted Scotia mine project, 62 km northeast of Halifax. The study…
79North taps into Suriname’s Guiana Shield
Exploration geologist Jon North was attending Mille Miglia – the annual re-enactment of the classic car race from Brescia in the foothills of the Italian Alps to Rome and back…
JV Article: Monarch Gold focused on producing 100-200,000 ounces of gold annually
For emerging Canadian gold mining company Monarch Gold Corporation (TSX: MQR), 2020 has been anything but a slow period. While other sectors in the mining industry have seen their operations…
Skeena exercises option on Barrick’s Eskay Creek
Skeena Resources (TSXV: SKE) will be exercising its option to acquire 100% of the Eskay Creek gold-silver project from Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) via a binding term sheet…
Galaxy pushes ahead at Sal de Vida lithium project in Argentina
Galaxy Resources (ASX: GXY) confirmed today that it is on track to begin production at its Sal de Vida lithium brine project in Argentina by 2022, despite the Covid-19 pandemic…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 194: CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian on the coronavirus, computer modelling and electric vehicles, part 1
This week’s episode features the first of a two-part interview with CPM Group managing partner Jeffrey M. Christian at the Canadian Mining Symposium, held on Zoom from June 16-18, 2020….
GT Gold tables resource for Saddle North porphyry in BC
GT Gold (TSXV: GTT) has released a maiden resource estimate for the Saddle North gold-rich copper porphyry within its wholly owned 468-sq.-km Tatogga property in northern British Columbia. Total indicated…
Coronavirus hits Peru’s mining sector
Mining companies operating in Peru are being forced to keep operations suspended and halt new ones as confirmed coronavirus cases in the country jumped past 300,000 on Sunday, with several…
KoBold Metals employs big data, geoscientists in pursuit of battery metals
KoBold Metals is investing in battery metal projects using big data and scientific computing with capital from billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The privately held California-based company has…
Lundin Gold restarts Frutal del Norte
Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG) has restarted operations at its Fruta del Norte (FDN) gold mine in Ecuador and expects to resume concentrate shipments in the next few days. Operations at…
Kincora Copper hits mineralization at Trundle in Australia
Kincora Copper (TSXV: KCC) has reported assay results from the first drill hole at its Trundle copper-gold project in Australia. Drill hole TRDD001 intersected several intervals of gold and copper mineralization from skarn…