Canada Top Stories

Gold ETFs register $1.6bn in outflows during January – report

While the gold price witnessed its strongest January in a decade, gold ETF outflows in Europe and Asia dwarfed positive demand in North America.

MINING.com Editor | February 10, 2023 | 9:35 am

Panama says negotiations with First Quantum making headway

The main bone of contention centres on taxes and royalties…

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 10, 2023 | 6:31 am

Torex Gold to spend up to $440 million on Media Luna project

The Mexican gold project was 15% complete by the end…

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 10, 2023 | 3:56 am

Another year, another major merger (in the works)

The merger between large-scale producers across the globe has become…

DBRS Morningstar Canada | February 9, 2023 | 1:52 pm

Canada to not permit sea floor mining without ‘rigorous’ regulations

Any decision on whether to allow seabed mining needed to…

Reuters | February 9, 2023 | 12:02 pm

COP26: What G-20 leaders agreed on coal, methane, net-zero

Politicians promised to stop financing overseas coal plants, tackle methane leaks and take greater action this decade to limit global warming.

Bloomberg News | October 31, 2021 | 1:16 pm

Inexorable decline of EV battery prices coming to an end – report

EV battery costs were approaching parity with gas-powered cars, but Benchmark believes decline may be at an end as lithium prices surge 313% in a year and cobalt, nickel prices jump.

Frik Els | October 29, 2021 | 9:55 am

World Copper closes $5.2 million financing, shares up

World Copper plans to use the net proceeds to advance exploration on its Escalones and Cristal properties in Chile.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 29, 2021 | 9:13 am

Iamgold convoy attacked in Burkina Faso, several missing

The vehicles carrying Iamgold employees came under attack on the road between Dori and Essakane, where the company has its biggest operating mine.

Reuters | October 29, 2021 | 8:18 am

Miners look to carbon capture to move beyond net zero

The global race to carbon neutrality is a double-edged sword for the metals and mining sector, writes Andy Home.

Reuters | October 29, 2021 | 7:48 am

COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out

New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation strategies.

Frik Els | October 28, 2021 | 3:18 pm