June 30, 2023 Northvolt nears deal with Canada on $5.3 billion battery plant A deal with Northvolt would underscore Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ambitions for Canada to capture a sizable piece of the North American EV supply chain.
June 29, 2023 Kinross Gold said to reject takeover approach from Endeavour Endeavour has been one of the most acquisitive among the industry’s mid-sized players, having sealed several deals in recent years.
June 29, 2023 RANKED: World’s top 10 rare earth projects The Tanbreez property in Greenland takes top spot.
June 29, 2023 Nova Royalty acquires NSR on Newmont’s Saddle North copper deposit in British Columbia Nova's royalty covers nearly 37,000 hectares of BC's Golden Triangle.
June 29, 2023 Fixing deep-sea mining damage would be double the cost of extraction — study Ecosystem restoration would cost between $5.3 - $5.7m per sq. km, compared with $2.7m sq. km to mine the seafloor.
June 28, 2023 Newcrest eyes major expansion of Red Chris gold-copper project The company plans to decide later this year on whether to add underground block cave mining to its open pit operations.
June 28, 2023 Miners tap waste for critical minerals Extracting copper, nickel, cobalt and other minerals from mine waste could provide a key new source of the minerals needed for the energy transition.
June 28, 2023 Mining the Moon to lift off within ten years — NASA The US space agency is looking to operate a pilot processing plant for lunar resources by 2032, as part of its planned Artemis missions.
June 27, 2023 FPX Nickel optimizes the Baptiste flowsheet boosting recovery to 88.7% The Baptiste deposit in British Columbia is part of FPX’s 100%-owned Decar nickel project.
June 27, 2023 Sitka expands gold corridor to over 5 km at RC project, Yukon Sitka plans to drill 10,000 metres at RC this year to expand the resource.
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