A Canadian Politician's Sound and Fury Over Lithium Deal Signify Nothing
The leader of Canada’s opposition party is demanding a national security review of the Neo Lithium takeover by China’s Zijin Mining.
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Where in the World Are All the Metals?
The data of the mining industry flows through the public markets. It is here where the information gathers in the form of the technical reports. By...
Chile’s Presidential Election Puts Billions of Mining Investment on the Balance
Gabriel Boric, a 35-year old former student leader, became Chile’s next president defeating right-wing opponent Jose Antonio Kast. With 56% of the...
IMF Projects $13 Trillion in Revenue Up for Grabs from 4 Key Metals
In a recent staff research paper, Energy Transition Metals, published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the potential metal demand from a...
The Power of Plants, Using Nature to Mine
One South African researcher is looking into the use of hemp to clean the soil around abandoned and polluted gold mining areas. The pollution is the...
Ecuador: A New Frontier for Mining?
Ecuador was until very recently the only Andean nation free of large-scale metal mines. However, recent discoveries and successful mine constructions...
From Waste to Asset: Can Tailings Take Miners To and Beyond Net-Zero?
One month before COP25, some of the world's top miners committed to a goal of net zero direct and indirect carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. A...
“Metallurgical Saber-Rattling”: Pentagon and China Battle over Rare Earths
The US is narrowing the gap with China in the race to dominate the battery value chain.
Building the U.S. EV Battery Supply Chain: Investment Hits $24 Billion, Ford Tops with $11 Billion
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has ranked the United States second in its 2021 and 2026 projections for its Global Lithium-ion Battery Supply...
Buy, Build or Discover? Barrick’s Bristow Cools on Deals
Barrick Gold Corp.’s (TSX: ABX) Chief Executive Mark Bristow built his reputation and his current job on mining deals, but at the recent MINExpo...
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Wall Street Goes Nuclear: Uranium Prices Spike as Sprott Moves into the Market
The price of uranium is melting up to the highest level since 2015 due in part to a single fund buying up the physical market and pushing prices of...
Guinean Coup Spikes Aluminum Prices, But Miners Told to Keep Mining
A military coup in Guinea briefly threatened one of the world's leading suppliers of aluminum, causing prices to spike. Its price hit the highest...
The Battle Continues: Australian Magnate Challenges BHP Bid For Canadian Assets
Earlier this month, Australian miner BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) through a subsidiary entered into an agreement to acquire all the...
Auto Manufacturers and Miners Flirt with New Relationships for an EV Future
The EV future ever creeps closer and so does its material impact. The auto industry will have to rely on the mining industry to provide the lithium,...
Rare Earth Mining Begins in Canada: Vital Metals Ramps up Production at Nechalacho
Australia’s Vital Metals (ASX: VML) increased production from its T-zone starter pit at the Nechalacho rare earths mine in Canada’s Northwest...