The top miners are split on how to chase the EV battery boom

The new kid on Canadian Arctic block is announcing plans to build two mines in Nunavut in the next six years.

Canadian Baja Mining (TSX:BAJ) shareholders continue to be anxious about the future of the company’s flagship Boleo project in Mexico, as its South Korean partners were unable to decide on the second stage of financing for the copper-cobalt-zinc mine development, the miner said Tuesday.

Chilean state-own Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, began construction of the access tunnels to the new level of its El Teniente copper mine on Tuesday.

Kiska Metals Corporations shares were up almost 19% (at 12:15 ET) Tuesday as the company announced updated results for its Thorn Property in northwestern British Columbia, sent by partner Brixton Metals.

Reservoir Minerals (CVE:RMC) was up 48.39% to $3.22 a share after releasing drill results for its Timok Project in eastern Serbia showing 160 metres grading 10.16% copper equivalent.

Copper rose to a one-week high in Monday trading on heightened expectations of stimulus packages following the release of weak Chinese data.

The Peruvian government confirmed it will end Monday a state of emergency imposed in early July in the country’s northern region, where violent protests against Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) controversial $4.8 billion Conga project left five dead and dozens injured.

A school in Western Australia has adopted the innovative pedagogic technique of using Lego robotics to teach students about mining processes, with the long-term goal of providing skilled tech-savvy workers to the region's flourishing resources sector.

India is already building a rare-earth mineral processing plant in the east coast state of Orissa and will invest $135 million in a new exploration ship and the refurbishing of another vessel to mine minerals under its oceans.