April 24, 2019

Top miners back autonomous systems guidelines

The document divides operations into six levels, from zero (entirely manual) to five (fully autonomous), and assists in the preparation of a business case for autonomous mining, depending on level…

April 24, 2019

ALX executes agreement to earn 51% interest in the Close Lake uranium project

ALX and Orano are on the verge of initiating a multi-year exploration program with the goal of locating a new, high-grade uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin.

April 22, 2019

Australian mining group asks government to repeal nuclear power ban

The Minerals Council of Australia issued a communiqué following Scott Morrison’s comments where he said he would be okay with receiving proposals from the nuclear energy industry.

April 15, 2019

US agency submits uranium import probe to White House

The probe was prompted by a petition filed by two uranium stage.mining.companies, complaining that subsidized foreign competitors have caused them to cut capacity and lay off workers.

April 15, 2019

Fission Uranium tables PFS for Patterson Lake South

The PFS assigns the project a $693m after-tax net present value at an 8% discount rate and a 21% after-tax internal rate of return.

April 11, 2019

Cobalt, uranium and silver prices expected to rally in 2019

But the iron ore price surge won't last says new survey of commodity analysts.

April 9, 2019

Purepoint completes initial fieldwork at Hook Lake

The project lies on the southwest edge of the Athabasca Basin in the Patterson uranium district.

April 9, 2019

Niger to pay $14.5m for 10% of GoviEx’s Madaouela uranium project

Government and company agreements also allow for the Madaouela mining permit to expand and include an additional 5.96 million pounds of measured and indicated resources.

April 8, 2019

Mining students learn to develop feasibility studies using high-tech solution

The Riivos-built mining financial technology software helps them spend less time building spreadsheet models and more time optimizing their mine project economics.

April 5, 2019

$6 billion private capital ready to invest in mining

Fundraising by unlisted funds for investment in natural resource reached a record $93 billion last year.