Uranium Top Stories

Canada scaring mining investors with long, unclear permit processes

Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past 10 years.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 24, 2018 | 1:58 am

Miners wrote off almost one-third of investments over last decade

From the $939bn invested in major projects between 2008 and…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 19, 2018 | 3:43 am

Trade war spills into uranium as U.S. weighs import tariffs

The Trump administration began an investigation into whether uranium imports…

Reuters | July 18, 2018 | 11:03 am

BHP posts record annual iron ore output, beats Q4 forecasts

Shares in the miner jumped more than 3% after both…

Reuters | July 18, 2018 | 5:38 am

Peru unit of Plateau Energy finds one of ‘world’s largest’ lithium resource

Company plans to complete a feasibility study next year, which…

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 18, 2018 | 3:14 am

Here is how metal-eating bacteria may make asteroid mining profitable

The technique, known as biomining, is already being tested here on Earth as a sustainable treatment of ores and mine waste.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 29, 2015 | 5:31 pm

Mining M&A: Private equity can’t run away fast enough

The smart money is waiting for fire sale prices before jumping into metals and mining. Or worse; has simply lost interest in the sector.

Frik Els | January 29, 2015 | 1:32 am

The youngest CEO in mining has his eye on uranium

This young dynamo entered the business straight out of university and is now running Skyharbour Resources (SKY.V). Skyharbour is a uranium junior holding a very prospective land position(over 390,000 hectares) in the prolific Athabasca Basin.

CEO.CA | January 27, 2015 | 4:37 pm

World Bank: Commodities falling like it’s 1985

Organization predicts a rare occurrence in 2015: a decline in all nine commodity indices with industrial metals falling another 5%; precious metals down 3%.

Frik Els | January 23, 2015 | 12:17 am

Global mining sector ended 2014 on a disappointing note: report

December is a period that sees lower levels of exploration and resource announcements, and last month was every bit as disappointing as expected, an SNL report shows.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 21, 2015 | 3:18 pm