Canada adds high-purity iron, phosphorus, silicon metal to critical minerals list
The list now identifies 34 minerals and metals deemed essential to the country’s economic or national security.
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Premium Nickel upsizes Botswana financing to $20 million
The upsized financing represents nearly double the initial offering amount.
Palamina to buy Aurania’s Peru unit to boost copper assets
The move will give Palamina access to strategic copper and silver projects in the country, including the Vicus Pluma project.
Electra gets Canadian gov’t funding for critical minerals recycling project
The company is accelerating the next phase of its recycling project to demonstrate that its hydrometallurgical black mass process is scalable, profitable, and can be implemented at other locations.
Southern Silver study ups NPV, mine life for Cerro Las Minitas project in Mexico
The study forecasts an initial capex of $388 million and an after-tax NPV of $501 million.
Critical Metals to acquire controlling stake in world’s biggest rare earth project
The Tanbreez project in Greenland has a 28.2 million tonne TREO resource.
Energy Fuels begins commercial production of separated rare earths at White Mesa
Energy Fuels said this is the first US commercial production of on-spec separated REEs from monazite in decades.
LME aluminum queue jumps to five months after Trafigura delivery
Exchange data showed a wait of 159 days for aluminum at warehouses owned by Istim Metals at Port Klang in Malaysia at the end of May.
Buenaventura resumes ore treatment at El Brocal plant
Despite the suspension, the company said it still expects to achieve its budgeted production in the third quarter.
