by Gordon Barratt | Sep 6, 2021 | News
TSX-V-listed First Cobalt has closed its previously announced debt and equity financing, raising gross proceeds of $45-million that it intends to use for the expansion and recommissioning of its hydrometallurgical refinery, in Ontario. “With the completion of...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 6, 2021 | News
Toronto-listed Orvana Minerals has restarted the El Valle plant, in Spain, after stopping production last month when a failure occurred at a legacy openpit wall. Underground mining continued operating throughout the plant stoppage, generating a stockpile that will be...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 6, 2021 | News
AUS federal judge ruled on Friday that Lithium Americas Corp may conduct excavation work at its Thacker Pass lithium mine site in Nevada, denying a request from Native Americans who said the digging would desecrate an area they believe holds ancestral bones and...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 6, 2021 | News
Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have partnered with Minalyze to build a laboratory for non-destructive compositional analysis of drill core samples. The lab and equipment will initially analyse elemental enrichment and depletion patterns and the...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 3, 2021 | News
THE COMPANY behind plans for a new coal mine in west Cumbria has set out its case for the project – attracting criticism from Green MP Caroline Lucas. Just a week before a public inquiry into the Woodhouse Colliery plan is to start, West Cumbria Mining (WCM) has...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 3, 2021 | News
A total of 16 opencast coal mines in Ordos City of North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with a forecast annual output of 25 million tons received their land using approvals recently, according to a statement from the National Development and Reform...