BHP confident in reaching Mariana disaster settlement
Last week, Vale and BHP presented Brazilian authorities with a new offer to settle reparations.
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Podcast: AI.Energy CEO Mariem Akrout on AI’s impact on the mining industry
This week’s episode features AI.Energy CEO Mariem Akrout in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, as well as its general impact on the mining…
Another report calls out red tape in Canada’s resource sector
Canada’s slow and complicated project approval process needs an overhaul to reverse declining investment in mining and other major infrastructure projects, a report from the C.D. Howe Institute suggests. The…
Ramp Metals ‘thrilled’ with new high-grade gold find in Saskatchewan
Ramp Metals (TSXV: RAMP) shares rose 24% after it reported partial assay results from a new high-grade gold discovery in Saskatchewan. The first hole the company drilled at the project,…
Sacked Nickel 28 CEO repays $3.2M
The CEO of a Canadian company with a small stake in a Papua New Guinea (PNG) nickel-cobalt mine is repaying about $3.2 million in shares and resigning from the board…
Nevada Copper on the auction block after filing for bankruptcy
Vancouver-based Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU) has started a sales process as a part of a restructuring announced this week, which included filing for bankruptcy and halting its Pumpkin Hollow copper…
Adventus, Salazar granted key permit for Ecuador copper-gold mine
Adventus Mining (TSXV: ADZN) and Salazar Resources (TSXV: SRL) have scored a win in Ecuador after the country’s environment ministry granted the partners a water use permit for their Curipamba-El…
Kenorland hits high-grade gold at Frotet in Quebec
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; US-OTC: KLDCF) said high-grade gold assays from the winter drill program at its Frotet project in Quebec bode well for an initial resource. Highlights include hole…
US energy storage market hits installation record in Q1
The U.S. energy storage market set a first-quarter record for capacity installed this year, with 1,265 megawatts (MW) deployed across all segments, a report by Wood Mackenzie and the American…
Ottawa diverts $3M rare earths sale from Chinese firm in ‘case of elevated interest for Canada’
The federal government has brokered the sale of $3 million in stockpiled rare earths mined in the Northwest Territories by Vital Metals (ASX: VML), the company said Monday, as Canada…
Snowline Gold’s first resource shows large-scale, high-grade potential in Yukon
Snowline Gold’s (TSXV: SGD; US-OTC: SNWGF) Valley deposit dwarfs most other projects in grade and metal, according to the most anticipated initial resource for a Yukon asset in decades. Valley…
Bluestone stock folds as Guatemala challenges Cerro Blanco open-pit permit
The Toronto-quoted shares of Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC: BBSRF) lost 47% Monday after the Guatemala government said it would challenge a decision allowing the Cerro Blanco gold mine to…