Russia's chances of winning its war in Ukraine are falling faster than a dissident oligarch tossed from a rooftop.On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin finally succumbed to the reality of his military's looming failure, as well as the country's more militant voices, and announced a "partial" mobilization of 300,000 new conscripts.These are weekend warriors with little or no experience actually fighting, an...Read More
FPX Nickel (TSXV:FPX; OTC:FPOCF) CEO Martin Turenne explains the results of an internal engineering scoping study evaluating the production of nickel sulphat...Read full newsRead More
TRU announces assay results from a new drill discovery at its flagship Golden Rose Project in Central Newfoundland. The 13-hole, 2,147.4 metre drilling program focused on the Jacob's Pond area, principally the Jacob's Twin showing, one of the five grids property-wide where the Company recently complRead full newsRead More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - SSR Mining Inc. [SSRM-TSX, NASDAQ, SSR-ASX] said Thursday it has received the required approvals from the Turkish Government and will restart operations at its Copler mine today.The move comes after the company completed improved initiatives at the heap leach pad that were required by the Turkish Ministry of the Environment.At the end of the second quarter the govern...Read More
The private placement will help advance exploration at the company's flagship Treaty Creek property in Canada's Golden Triangle.Read More
SSR Mining has restarted operations at its Copler gold mine in Turkey that were suspended in June this year following a leak from a pipeline that connects to the heap leach pad.Read More
Puna most recently served as CEO of Anglo American's copper business in Chile following a series of operating and technical positions within that organization including as Group Head of Open PitRead More
Bedrock gold discovery adds to Kingwest reignSPONSOREDkingwest resourcesZenith Minerals aiming for new heights with lithium focusSPONSOREDzenith minerals limitedNorth Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDSpeaking recently at a gathering of investors in Perth hosted by the Association of Mining Explorat...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Smash and grab aiders fled empty-handed after they were thwarted by thick laminated display cases.A gang of six men tried to smash the cases at a store in the Jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles, California, USA.Employees fought back, hurling items at the perpetrators and a security guard fired a non-lethal pepper ball.The men, all were wearing black hoods, drove off in three...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Billionaire businessman Lev Leviev is to be interviewed by police in Israel over allegations of diamond smuggling.LLD (Lev Leviev Diamonds), one of the world's largest diamond cutting groups, is suspected of smuggling stones into the country by air over a 16-year period.Leviev, 66, (pictured) who has lived in Russia since 2018, arrived in Israel on Tuesday (20 September) and w...Read More
The trend has been seen in at miners including Agnico Eagle Mines and also major miners Barrick Gold and Newmont.Read More
Permitting and legal obstacles faced by the firms over the construction of the 211-mile-long industrial road, known as the Ambler Access Project, have been complicated further by a decision by the USRead More
Toronto-based Electra Battery Materials (TSXV: ELBM; NASDAQ: ELBM) signed its first production agreement for North America's only cobalt refinery today, agreeing to supply LG Energy Solution of Seoul with about US$63 million of cobalt sulphate when calculated at the current spot price. The financial terms of the agreement weren't released, but Electra is to supply LGES, a global manufacturer of...Read More
Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) has received more encouraging results from drilling at its Tamarack nickel-copper-cobalt project in Minnesota, including assays for 17 holes drilled on the western side of the Tamarack resource area that demonstrated the continuity and thickness of the high-grade massive sulphide zone.The new holes, drilled between 2021 and 2022, extend across 320 metres from northwest to s...Read More
Atlantic Lithium (AIM: ALL), an Australia-based miner seeking to unlock electric car battery resources in West Africa, said its proposed operation in Ghana will generate nearly US$5 billion in revenue over its 12.5-year lifespan.The Ewoyaa project, about 120 km west of the capital, Accra, has a net present value of US$1.3 billion at a discount rate of 8% with expected free cash flow of US$2 billio...Read More
Credit rating firm Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday it had changed its outlook for the global metals and mining industry from stable to negative as a global economic slowdown continues to soften demand. The downturn is affecting prices, which consequently reflects a decreasing profitability for the largest Moody's-rated companies in the industry during the upcoming 12 months, the firm s...Read More
The London-based International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) says mining companies should be able to use emerging technologies within 15 years to drastically reduce the tailings that continue to kill and cause destruction when tailings storage structures fail.The ICMM estimates developing new technologies such as no-waste mine architecture, in-situ-leaching and non-chemical extraction, all a...Read More
Engineers at West Virginia University are developing new technologies for coal waste storage facilities that will detect and prevent potential failures like leakage of hazardous materials into the environment.After receiving almost half a million dollars in funding from the United States Department of Energy, the researchers plan to deliver an aerial robot-enabled inspection and monitoring system...Read More
General Motors is boosting efforts to secure lithium supplies, a crucial ingredient for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, by investing in Canadian battery recycling company Lithion Recycling Inc.The move creates a partnership between the world's second largest automaker and the Quebec-based company to pursue a circular battery ecosystem using Lithion's technology. Financial details of the investmen...Read More
The stock market has taken a good cowhiding this year under the Federal Reserve's pitiless onslaughts.The Dow Jones has hemorrhaged some 6,500 points year to date. Both S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite have absorbed similar blasts - on a percent basis.Trillions in stock market wealth have vanished into the great nothingness... whence it sprung.And so the delirious excesses of the past several year...Read More