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Vital to acquire 75% stake in Athabasca Basin uranium project
8th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

CSE-listed Vital Battery Metals has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LoI) with Standard Uranium to acquire a 75% interest in the Corvo project, a 12 265-ha uranium property located in the... 


FPX Nickel expands global exploration alliance with Japan’s Jogmec
8th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Vancouver-based junior nickel mining company FPX Nickel has extended its partnership with the Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security (Jogmec), transforming their global generative... 


Alta Mesa uranium plant
enCore Energy hits record uranium output at Texas plant, eyes growth
8th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Nasdaq- and TSX-V-listed enCore Energy has reported its strongest production month to date at the Alta Mesa in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium plant in Texas, as the US-based uranium company continues... 


Freeport-McMoRan CEO flags concern over global growth amid US tariffs
8th April 2025 By: Reuters

The CEO of copper producer Freeport-McMoRan said on Monday she was concerned about the health of the global economy and the possibility of recession and inflation in the wake of US tariffs rolled... 


Sufficient uranium resources exist, investments needed to sustain high nuclear energy growth – report
Sufficient uranium resources exist, investments needed to sustain high nuclear energy growth – report
8th April 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Sufficient uranium resources exist to support the continued use of nuclear power and its significant growth through 2050 and beyond; however, timely investments in new exploration, mining... 


Chinese buyers snapped up copper as prices plunged below $8 500
Chinese buyers snapped up copper as prices plunged below $8 500
8th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

Chinese copper buyers used Monday’s collapse in prices below $8500 a ton to significantly increase purchases, traders said, helping to trigger a dramatic rebound even as a rout in other global... 


Pierre Poilievre
Canada’s Poilievre says he would approve Suncor oil project, mines
8th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party said he would accelerate approval on 10 resource projects if elected, including the extension of a major Suncor Energy oil sands mine in Alberta. Pierre... 


New Gold consolidates free cashflow interest in New Afton
7th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto-listed New Gold will gain full free cash flow ownership of its New Afton copper/gold mine in British Columbia, following a $300-million transaction with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The... 


The acquisition will expand Wesdome's land position at the Eagle River operation fourfold.
Wesdome to acquire Angus Gold in $40m deal
7th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto-listed Wesdome Gold Mines will acquire junior exploration company Angus Gold in a cash-and-share deal valued at about $40-million, expanding its land position at the Eagle River operation... 


An offshore oil rig
Oil tumbles further as US-China trade conflict fuels recession fears
7th April 2025 By: Reuters

Oil prices extended losses on Monday, falling 3% as escalating trade tensions between the United States and China stoked fears of a recession that would reduce demand for crude while OPEC+ readies... 


Barrick chairperson John Thornton.
Barrick advancing projects to support 30% growth by 2030
7th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

New York- and Toronto-listed gold and copper mining company Barrick is now advancing its portfolio of growth projects to support a planned 30% growth in gold equivalent ounces by the end of the... 


Peak Minerals changes name to Sranan Gold
7th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Vancouver-based exploration company Peak Minerals has changed its name to Sranan Gold to reflect its focus on its activities in Suriname. CEO Oscar Louzada says Sranan means Suriname in the local... 


NioCorp has warned that China's rare earths move is not merely a supply chain hiccup.
China's rare earth export curbs seen as 'precision strike' on US defence
7th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

China’s move to restrict exports of key rare earth elements is a “precision strike” on US defence and technology supply chains, says Nasdaq-listed NioCorp Developments. The restrictions, announced... 


Trump's tariff 'medicine' injects turmoil into global markets
7th April 2025 By: Reuters

US President Donald Trump warned foreign governments they would have to pay "a lot of money" to lift sweeping tariffs, characterising the duties as "medicine" and triggering further carnage across... 


Patriot appoints Quebec mining exec as COO
7th April 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ranium exploration company Patriot Battery Metals has announced the appointment of Quebec-based mining executive Frederic Mercier-Langevin as chief development and chief operating officer. In his... 


The  Black Rock South project in Nevada
American Salars positions Nevada lithium project as tariff shield
7th April 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

CSE-listed American Salars Lithium is banking on its Nevada-based Black Rock South project to insulate itself from potential trade disruptions as the US lithium market braces for new tariffs under... 


Silver bars
Silver hits over eight-week low as market frets about industrial demand
4th April 2025 By: Reuters

Prices of silver dropped to over eight-week lows on Friday as concerns about demand for the industrial precious metal dominated sentiment due to recession fears stemming from US President Donald... 


US President Donald Trump
Trump tariff policies likely to extend beyond his term, analysts say
4th April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Following the announcement by US President Donald Trump on April 2 that South Africa would be subjected to 30% tariffs on its exports to the US, banker and academic Colin Coleman has said there is... 


Anglo American's Fahmida Smith (centre) flanked by Nornickel's Dmitry Izotov (left) and Heraeus's Dominik Sperzel (right).
South Africa's hydrogen corridor project shortlisted for JET funding, PGM Day hears
4th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s rejigged green hydrogen corridor project, Project Rhynbow, has been shortlisted for just energy transition (JET) investment project funding, this week’s Platinum Group Metals (PGM)... 


Signage outside WTO offices
China files complaint with WTO over new US tariffs
4th April 2025 By: Reuters

China said it had opened a formal complaint against the new US tariffs with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday, saying the measures violate WTO rules and requesting consultations.... 


Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau
Retaliatory tariffs against US would be ‘counterproductive’, South Africa’s Tau says
4th April 2025 By: Terence Creamer

South Africa has confirmed that it has no intention of imposing retaliatory tariffs on the US after President Donald Trump announced that South African imports faced so-called “reciprocal tariffs”... 


Copper smelting
Copper plunges more than 5% as tariffs hammer metals and miners
4th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

Copper plunged more than 5% to trade below $9 000 a ton, in the biggest drop since July 2022, as worries over the impact of a worsening trade war sparked a heavy selloff in industrial metals and... 


Kamoa-Kakula operation
Kamoa Copper signs landmark baseload solar PPA with CrossBoundary
4th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Copper mining company Kamoa Copper has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with CrossBoundary Energy for the provision of baseload renewable energy to the Kamoa-Kakula Copper mining complex, in... 


US President Donald Trump signing an executive order on tariffs
China hits back hard in global trade war with tariffs on US goods
4th April 2025 By: Reuters

China announced additional tariffs of 34% on US goods on Friday, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump that has fed fears of a recession and triggered a global... 


Chile landscape
Nobel to earn 100% of four copper projects in Chile
4th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX-V-listed Nobel Resources Corporation has completed a transaction to acquire four copper projects in Chile from Austral Exploraciones. Nobel has the option to acquire 100% of each of the... 


Dugbe exploration samples
Pasofino, Hummingbird reach key agreement to finally realise Dugbe project
4th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX-V-listed Pasofino Gold has entered into a binding term sheet for cooperation and support with its 50.8% shareholder, Hummingbird Resources, and its parent company Nioko Resources Corporation.... 


Alamos' Island gold mine, in Canada
Q-Gold signs share exchange agreement for Alamos’ Quartz Mountain project
4th April 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Canadian miners Q-Gold Resources and Alamos Gold have signed a binding share exchange agreement for Q-Gold to acquire a mineral exploration project located in south-central Oregon, in the US. The... 


An iron-ore stockpile
US tariff blitz bolsters Goldman’s bearish view on iron-ore
4th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

A cascade of US tariffs announced by President Donald Trump will hurt Chinese steel exports and help to drag iron ore prices below $90 a ton by the end of the year, Goldman Sachs Group said in a... 


Railway tracks
Trump administration backs African Lobito rail plan, envoy says
4th April 2025 By: Bloomberg

The US said it remains committed to the Lobito Corridor project that links critical minerals deposits in central Africa to an Atlantic port, signaling a bright spot in trade with the continent... 


Copper sheets produced in the DRC
After tariffs, US dangles billions of dollars in Congo mineral investment
4th April 2025 By: Reuters

The United States is in talks to invest billions of dollars in mineral-rich Congo and wants to help end a conflict raging in the country's east, President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa... 


Rare earths
Clarity sought on critical minerals as US floats trade probe
3rd April 2025 By: Bloomberg

The White House is floating the idea of potentially launching a tariff investigation into critical minerals imports, causing further confusion on a key market prioritized by President Donald Trump.... 


A gold bar being poured
HSBC raises gold price forecasts amid geopolitical tensions
3rd April 2025 By: Reuters

HSBC raised its average 2025 and 2026 gold price forecast to $3 015 and $2 915 per ounce respectively, citing geopolitical risks. This is an increase from its previous forecasts of $2 687 and $2... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO-designate Richard Stewart
Despite strong headwinds, Sibanye-Stillwater’s Stewart remains bullish on PGMs' future
3rd April 2025 By: Darren Parker

Despite the platinum group metals (PGMs) slump brought about by low prices and the advent of electric vehicles (EVs), Sibanye-Stillwater CEO-designate Richard Stewart remains optimistic about the... 


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