Lithium prices continue to hold near historic highs, even in the face of an anticipated global recession. Spot prices for both lithium carbonate and hydroxide are now hovering around US$70,000 per tonne, and prices are expected to remain high through 2024 or longer. In an early October report, Bank of America analysts forecast demand for the energy metal will grow by 20% on a compound annual ba...Read More
Canada's Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) has begun early site works at its proposed Valentine open-pit gold mine in central Newfoundland after satisfying pre-construction environmental assessment conditions.The project is expected to see full mobilization by early 2023, the first ore to the mill at the end of 2024, and a production ramp-up during the first fiscal quarter of 2025.Valentine is considere...Read More
Developer Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI; US-OTC: CROJF) has released an updated resource estimate for its namesake project in the Antofagasta region of northern Chile, confirming it as one of the biggest copper discoveries of the past 10 years.The Vancouver-based company reports a 98% increase in the measured and indicated resource tonnage of the Marimaca Oxide Deposit (MOD). It entails 139.6 million...Read More
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Rio Tinto and the Canadian government have announced investments of up to C$737 million (US$537 million) over the next eight years in its titanium slag operations to reduce carbon emissions and secureRead More
In fact, this stuff didn't just stump the world's most famous physicist - it infuriated him. Even after a lifetime of work, Albert Einstein failed to find a reasonable explanation that meshed with his own breakthrough theory of relativity. By digging deeper and deeper into this headache-inducing field, he found that it violated nearly every single universal rule that science had come to acc...Read More
The latest reports from S&P Global Commodity Insights confirm an overall downward trend, with the market intelligence firm's Pipeline Activity Index (PAI) falling to a 20-month low in August.In its State of the Market Q2 report, S&P said the downtrend has been roughly correlated with a steady downtrend in mining equities since March."We anticipate exploration activity levels to continue cooling in...Read More
Collective Mining (TSXV: CNL; US-OTC: CNLMF) shares rose almost 10% Wednesday as the company announced the "most cumulative mineralization in drill holes completed to date" in the high-grade, copper-gold-silver porphyry-related Main Breccia discovery at its Guayabales project in Colombia.Guayabales is located in the historic Colombian gold mining department of Caldas, about 300 km inland from Barr...Read More
Thesis Gold (TSXV: TAU; OTC: THSGF) says the first metallurgical tests on samples from its Ranch project in north-central British Columbia's Golden Horseshoe have a gold recovery rate of between 90% and 98%. The company believes the property could produce high-grade gold concentrates using low-cost conventional extraction methods.The tests were carried out on composite core samples from the Bonanz...Read More
Uranium Energy (NYSE: UEC) has agreed to purchase 100% of the Roughrider project for $150 million from Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO). Rio will receive $80 million in cash and $70 million in Uranium Energy stock.The Roughrider uranium project is located 13 km west of the McClean Lake uranium mill, about 750 km north of Saskatoon, Sask. It has a historic resource of 58 million lb. uraniu...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) is investing up to $515 million over the next eight years to decarbonize its Fer et Titane (RTFT) operations in Sorel-Tracy, Que. and to help diversify its critical minerals portfolio, while the federal government will contribute up to $222 million to the initiatives.The partnership, worth up to $737 million will support innovations to reduce by up to 70%...Read More
Gatos Silver (NYSE, TSX: GATO) is coming off its best ever quarter of production, with the 70%-owned Cerro Los Gatos mine in Mexico producing a record 2.7 million oz. of silver for the three months ended September 30, a 59% increase over the third quarter of 2021.Zinc production of 17.8 million lb. and lead production of 12.2 million lb. were also record highs, up 32% and 13% respectively from th...Read More
In the spirit of the October month, I want to tell you a story about a haunted castle in West Virginia.It's called the Berkeley Springs Castle.And as far as it being haunted... well, I don't know if the castle is haunted by ghosts or a poltergeist like in the movies.But I think by the end of this you'll agree the story of the Berkeley Springs Castle is haunting itself. And I promise there's an inv...Read More
Trigg Minerals (ASX: TMG) managing director Keren Paterson joins Small Caps to discuss the company's pre-feasibility ...Read More
Former students of the Yale School of the Environment catalog current research on restoration techniques after surface gold mining and suggest more research is needed to determine best practices in the area.Read full newsRead More
Social-media giant Facebook will showcase its new mixed-reality headset on Oct. 11. But something else is key to its resurgence.Read full newsRead More
Although gold cooled by nearly 3%, it was enough to beat U.S. Treasury and corporate bonds, domestic and oversea stocks, commodities and Bitcoin. In the bloodbath that was September, gold's traditional role as a diversifier and haven was clear to see.Read full newsRead More