I have a theory that mining executives are eating too much salad. Beatrix Potter warned us in 1909 that eating lettuce is soporific (in her Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies). Whatever the cause, mining companies seem to be sleepwalking into a catastrophic shortage of skills.The revered children's author was a remarkable lady. A keen natural scientist, Potter had a particular interest in archaeology, ent...Read More
Miners Ultra Argentina SRL and China's Zangge Mining have committed US$290 million in investments to explore and develop lithium deposits in northwest Argentina, as well as to build a plant, the minister of industry Daniel Scioli announced.Zangge Mining will initially invest US$40 million in the exploration and development of the Laguna Verde lithium project in the province of Catamarca.A further...Read More
Rio, Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) and the Guinean government have incorporated La Compagnie du TransGuinéen (The TransGuinean Company) to further progress plans to co-develop the multi-purpose and multi-user infrastructure for the project.Rio and WCS will each hold 42.5% of La Compagnie du TransGuinéen, while the government will have a 15% free-carried interest.It comes after a...Read More
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The company's share price was at a four-week high of C$4.32 (US$3.6) on July 26, having risen 4% day on day. It had been on a downward trend since hitting a year-to-date high of C$6.Read More
At 170 carats, the gemstone is one of the largest rough diamonds ever recovered globally and is believed to be the largest pink diamond recovered in 300 years. The Lulu joint venture has now recovered 27 stones exceeding 100ct, with the Lulo Rose the fifth largest from the field. The largest ever diamond recovered in Angola was the 404ct 4th February Stone, also from the Lulo concessions...Read More
Shares in Canada's uranium major, Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ), gained nearly 10% on Wednesday after the company reported higher core profit than expected amid an uptick in uranium prices.The Saskatoon, Sask.-based company said headline profit per share more than doubled to 18 ?, compared with analyst forecasts calling for a loss of 1 ?.Revenue for the three months ended June increased 55% year-on...Read More
NorthWest Copper Corp. (TSXV: NWST; US-OTCQX: NWCCF) has released a new mineral resource estimate on the Lorraine project, about 40 km. from the company's Kwanika-Stardust project in Central B.C.The June 30 technical report draws on drilling completed between 1949 and 2009 and calculates an indicated resource of 12.9 million tonnes for 156,093 lb. of copper, grading at 0.55% copper and 0.66% coppe...Read More
Mining financier and entrepreneur Lukas H. Lundin has died in Geneva at the age of 64, following a two-year battle with brain cancer. The Swedish-Canadian Lundin, known for his shrewd business sense and willingness to take risks, was born in 1958 in Stockholm. Lundin learned the natural resource business from his father, the late Swedish resource magnate Adolf H. Lundin and founder of the Lundin...Read More
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada's largest diversified miner, has announced its chief executive officer, Don Lindsay, will step down after 17 years in the role.Lindsay, who will leave by the end of September, will be replaced by two executives in what the company calls "the culmination of a multiyear succession process." Chief financial officer Jonathan Price will take over...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM) has recovered a rare 170-carat pink diamond at its prolific Lulo mine, believed to be the largest of its kind found in Angola in the last 300 years.The massive pink stone named the "Lulo Rose" will be sold later this year through an international tender conducted by Angolan state-owned diamond trading firm Sodiam.Lucapa has a 40% stake in the Lulo mine, whic...Read More
Last week, Ford announced several plans to source new EV batteries and related minerals, including lithium and nickel, to support the company's goal of achieving annual production of 600,000 electric vehicles by next year and over 2 million by 2026.The company announced Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (SHE: 300750) will supply lithium-iron-phosphate batteries for new...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - TNR Gold Corp. [TNR-TSXV] said Tuesday it has monetized its royalty holding on the Mariana lithium-potash brine project in Argentina via a partial sale to an Ontario limited partnership affiliated with Lithium Royalty Corp. (LRC).TNR shares rallied on the news, rising 25% or $0.01 to $0.05 on volume of 737,390. The shares are currently trading in a 52-week range o...Read More
Politicians are greedy, corrupt, and evil by nature. They enact laws they don't have to abide by. It is often postulated that most of the problems in the United States would be solved with just one law mandating that Congress must abide by the very laws it passes.But no, our public servants play by a different set of rules. You name a set of circumstances from health care to pensions to travel, an...Read More
We spoke with Dr. Keith Barron, President, and CEO of Aurania Resources Ltd. (TSXV: ARU, OTCQB: AUIAF, Frankfurt: 20Q). Aurania Resources is a mineral exploration company, focused on precious metals and copper, in South America. Its flagship asset, The Lost Cities - Cutucu Project, is located in the Jurassic Metallogenic Belt, in the eastern foothills of the Andes Mountain range, of southeastern E...Read More
In this week's episode, we take a closer look at Alcoa's Q2 earnings call, featuring Alcoa president and CEO Roy Harvey and CFO William F. (Bill) Oplinger, who discuss rising energy costs, the benefits of a strong U.S. dollar, challenges to smelter profitability and ongoing environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.Music Credits:"R...Read More
The equity in Aztec Minerals (TSXV: AZT; US-OTCQB) jumped as much as 41.5% on Tuesday after it announced a deal with private concern Kootenay Silver Inc. to acquire a 100% interest in the Cervantes porphyry copper-gold project in Sonora state of northwestern Mexico.Aztec has agreed to issue to Kootenay 10 million shares at 25 ? apiece in return for Kootenay's 35% interest in Cervantes. Kootenay wi...Read More
Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) has released results for four drill holes completed at the Spark pegmatite, part of the company's PAK lithium property located north of Red Lake, Ont.The current drill program began in May 2022 and is still in progress. The initial drill holes were designed to quickly convert the inferred resource within the central portion of the Spark deposit to the ind...Read More