Ontario's strategic push to establish a fully integrated lithium-ion battery supply chain got a massive boost on Monday after Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL) reached an agreement with India-based Essar Group to fund and provide development support for a lithium refinery in Thunder Bay.Avalon and RenJoules International have partnered to co-develop a regional lithium battery materials supply c...Read More
The Toronto-quoted equity of Hemlo Explorers (TSXV: HMLO) jumped more than 53% on Monday after the company revealed it had entered a binding term sheet with Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) that will give Barrick a right to earn up to 80% of the Pic project in Ontario.Located 25 km west of Barrick's Hemlo mine, Barrick will have to deliver to Hemlo Explorers a pre-feasibility study within six...Read More
Lithion Recycling has received $22.5 million in funding from the Quebec government, including a $15 million equity investment in the company's capital stock through Investissement Qu?(C)bec and $7.5 million in grants from the Fonds d'?(C)lectrification et de changements climatiques.Lithion also received funds totalling $125 million earlier this year from Quebec-based Fondaction, and from Korea's I...Read More
Belmont Resources (TSXV: BEA) reported its longest intercept of copper mineralization to date from the ongoing 7,000-metre drill program at the Lone Star copper-gold project, operated by Marquee Resources (ASX: MQR). The project is situated in northern Washington state, near the Canada-U.S. border. The drill campaign is part of an option agreement that Belmont inked with Marquee in November,...Read More
Canada Nickel Co. (TSXV: CNC; OTC: CNIKF) has completed the current phase of drilling at its flagship Crawford nickel sulphide project in Ontario, and is reporting assay results from 33 drill holes, including additional assays from the previously announced East Zone high-grade core discovery. A further 37 holes have been drilled at Crawford, with assays pending.The East Zone was originally defined...Read More
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) and the Kyrgyz Republic have reached an out-of-court settlement in which the Canadian miner agrees to hand control of its expropriated Kumtor operation to the country's government, ending an almost year-long dispute over the asset.The deal, to be announced by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on national television, will see Centerra to transferring ownership of the mine...Read More
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Share this article VANCOUVER - New Gold Inc. (NGD-TSX, NYSE American) has released a technical report containing an update on the open pit and expanded underground mine plans for its Rainy River gold mine in Ontario.The company said the life of mine has been extended to 2031 with the conversion of an additional 569,000 gold ounces in the underground main zones to mineral reserves. It said the re...Read More
We spoke with George Sakalidis, who is Founder and Managing Director of Magnetic Resources NL (MAU), a dynamic and unique gold company, focused on developing their large scale, 100% owned, advanced Hawks Nest 9 and adjacent Lady Julie gold assets. in the Laverton region of Western Australia. The shallow gold and its proximity to existing mining operations and infrastructure in the region, represen...Read More
On Wednesday, Germany announced its citizens should prepare for the potential of liquid natural gas (LNG) rationing as the Ukraine-Russia conflict rages on. Reuters reports:Germany triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies on Wednesday under which Europe's largest economy could ration power if a standoff over a Russian demand to pay for fuel with rubles disrupts or halts supplies.The rep...Read More
Torex Gold Resources (TXG.TO) has released an updated technical report for the Morelos gold complex in Mexico, including an integrated life of mine plan and economics for the El Lim??n Guajes mine and the Media Luna project.The company outlined the Morelos complex's net present value at US$458 million with a 16.1% internal tax return, based on a 5% discount rate.Annual sales were estimated at 374,...Read More
Mining companies and analysts have described U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to authorize the Defense Production Act to increase battery metals production and reduce the country's reliance on China and Russia as an "urgent" move that provides "further proof" of the minerals' growing importance in the geopolitical arena. The act gives the president authority to prioritize the production of sp...Read More
Shares of Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU) traded at their lowest value this year after the company revealed in its annual report that the ramp-up of its Pumpkin Hollow underground copper mine in Nevada continued to struggle in the first quarter of 2022. The company said it had lost a scoop due to a stope's sidewall failure in its underground mine earlier this year. "As a result, the company was not abl...Read More
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A | TECK.B) (NYSE: TECK), Canada's largest diversified miner, is facing eight charges filed by Chile's environmental regulator SMA, which claims the miner failed to comply with measures to avoid impacts on vegetation and animals at its Quebrada Blanca copper mine.The agency said audits carried out in 2019, 2020 and 2021 at the operation, located in Chile's northern Ta...Read More
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON: RIO) might have the licence for its $2.4 billion lithium project in Serbia reinstated should the country's pro-mining president, Aleksandar Vu??i??, and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) win the elections this weekend, analysts say.The country heads to the polls on Sunday to vote for both president and parliament, with opinion surveys showing that Vu??i?? is likely to...Read More
U.S. and China-based researchers have developed a 3D, interconnected, thermally-conductive boron nitride network that greatly improves thermal conductivity in lithium-ion batteries.In a paper published in the journal Green Energy & Environment, scientists explain that although electric cars travel longer distances with shorter battery charging times, the lifespan of those batteries has also decrea...Read More
While the U.S. sits comfortably distant from any potential foes, a startling new set of numbers was just released by the United Nations.We are now seeing the most armed conflicts across the globe since the end of World War II.In many ways, it marks the end of an era.Pax Americana has long been used to describe the relative peace we've seen over the last fifty years.Many terrible wars were fought,...Read More