Rio Tinto-First Quantum JV to develop massive copper project in Peru
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) and First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) have formed a joint venture to advance the La Granja copper project in Peru to development….
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TNM Drill Down YTD: Australia and Canada dominate top gold drill results this year
Building on our popular weekly TNM Drill Down feature ranking the best gold assays of the week, The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill results for major metals…
TSX winners Aug. 21-25 include Cameco, Teck, Perpetua and Laramide
Over the Aug. 21-25 trading period, the S&P/TSX Composite Index added 17.36 points or 0.09%, to 19,835.75. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index inched up 1.73 points or 1.7% to 102.88…
TSXV dips 0.7% over Aug. 21-25, but IsoEnergy, Founders Metals shine
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index retreated by 4.11 points or 0.7% over the Aug. 21-25 trading session, ending at 581.23. Uranium explorer IsoEnergy (TSXV: ISO) was the week’s top value…
New Found Gold drilling confirms high-grade at recently discovered K2 zone
New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG; NYSEA: NFGC) shares gained 5% on Monday on the release of new drill results from a program to expand the K2 Zone discovered in May…
Uranium market turn buoys Kazatomprom H1 profit
Kazatomprom (LSE: KAP), the world’s largest uranium producer, has for the six months to June reported a 25% year-on-year growth in consolidated revenue on higher sales volumes and a recovering…
Pan American Silver sees a 10% resource decline despite Yamana additions
Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS; NASDAQ: PAAS) has recorded a 10% year-on-year decrease in its gold-equivalent reserves and resources, an analysis by Canaccord Genuity mining analyst Carey MacRury has found….
Nickel Creek Platinum shares drop as prefeasibility puts Shaw project capex at $1.7B
Nickel Creek Platinum (TSX: NCP; US-OTC: NCPCF) shares fell by 16.7% to 2.5¢ each on Friday after the company released a prefeasibility study giving its Nickel Shaw project in southwest…
Foremost Lithium completes US$4M public offering, NASDAQ listing
Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (NASDAQ: FMST; CSE: FAT) has completed its underwritten public offering in the United States with the sale of 800,000 units at US$5.00 each for total…
Rio Tinto starts lithium exploration on Midland’s James Bay projects
Rio Tinto Exploration Canada has started a lithium exploration program on Midland Exploration’s (TSXV: MD) Mythril area and Galinée projects in the Eeyou Itschee James Bay region of Quebec. The exploration…
TNM Drill Down: F3 Uranium’s ‘truly impressive’ grades at Patterson Lake North rank first in our Top 10
Building on our popular weekly TNM Drill Down feature ranking the best gold assays of the week, The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill results for major metals…
What the ascent of hydrogen as a renewable resource means for platinum demand
The emerging global hydrogen supply chain is essentially “made of platinum,” declares Bank of America Global Research commodities strategist Michael Widmer, coauthor of the bank’s Global Metals Weekly report. If…