November 10, 2023

How Canada – and Bay Street – squandered the chance to finance the critical minerals revolution

Capital has disappeared from Canada’s once-thriving junior mining industry.

November 10, 2023

Happy Creek permitted to expand exploration work at Fox tungsten project in BC

The goal of the proposed 2023 to 2027 drilling campaign is to at least triple the existing tungsten resource.

November 7, 2023

What green energy transition? Half of mining still exploring for gold

New study shows a $1.1 billion drop in gold exploration budgets this year as juniors struggle to raise capital, but the precious metal still accounts for 46% of the total.

November 2, 2023

Appian acquires mineral sands land package in Virginia

Firm plans plans to de-risk and restart the mining operations, with the refurbishment of two existing mineral concentrator plants.

October 31, 2023

Fleet Space Technologies launches new ExoSphere features for global mineral exploration

ExoSphere also awarded a Demonstrator Program contract by the Australian Space Agency to develop geophysical devices for locating water deposits on the Moon.

October 21, 2023

Strategic Minerals to ‘fight’ for reopening of suspended section at its Spanish tin-tantalum mine

Strategic Minerals Europe issued a media statement saying it will push for the restart of section C of its Penouta tin-tantalum mine in northwestern Spain.

October 20, 2023

British Columbia government to create provincial critical minerals strategy

The federal government last year launched a Canadian critical minerals strategy, backed by C$3.8 billion.

October 19, 2023

Quartz can help predict, manage wildfires 

The intensity of quartz luminescence is higher in sediments that have been exposed to wildfires.

October 12, 2023

Raising capital now biggest risk to mining companies after ESG

The massive capital outlays required by the green energy transition have become a top mining boardroom agenda item, says new survey.

October 11, 2023

“New” mineral discovered in abandoned gold mine dumps

A newly discovered mineral, named kanatzidisite, was recently unearthed in mining dumps of the abandoned Nagybörzsöny gold deposit in Hungary.