January 13, 2023

CHARTS: Mining stocks gain on tech but remain an afterthought for investors

Apple is worth more than the 100 biggest mining companies, three years of global copper production and all the world's seaborne iron ore.

January 9, 2023

Top 50 mining companies in 2022: coal, lithium win big, China investors lose out

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global…

December 21, 2022

UEC wins $17.8m award from Department of Energy to supply uranium concentrates

The US nuclear reactor fleet, which provides about 20% of America's electricity production and over half of its clean energy, imports nearly 60% of its current uranium requirements from Russia,…

December 21, 2022

Terrafame to start mining uranium in Finland by mid-2024

The miner will extract uranium as a byproduct of zinc and nickel production and aims to produce 200 tonnes per year by 2026.

December 16, 2022

Recent nuclear fusion news is more about hydrogen bombs than energy related

The breakthrough the DOE announced this week involved the momentary ignition of a single fuel capsule, not something that can run a power plant.

December 16, 2022

EnCore Energy wins court challenge to South Dakota uranium project 

The Oglala Sioux Tribe and watchdog group Aligning for Responsible Mining wanted a US appeals court to review its decision in August approving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licence.

December 13, 2022

Fusion is nuclear power without the meltdowns and radioactive waste

Nuclear fusion, the process US researchers successfully demonstrated this month, has big potential advantages over the nuclear power plants operating today.

December 6, 2022

Appia Rare Earths & Uranium stock surges on massive monazite discovery as Alces Lake

Highlights from the program include 36.11 wt.% total rare earth oxides at Alces Lake in Saskatchewan.

December 1, 2022

Brazil to let private sector mine for uranium

The uranium sector is currently the exclusive responsibility of state-run Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB).

November 25, 2022

Kazatomprom’s Q3 profit surges on higher sales

Company reported a nearly sevenfold year-on-year increase in third-quarter profit.