Engineers at Northeastern University have patented a process to accelerate the production of a mineral known as tetrataenite, whose magnetic properties make it a leading candidate to replace magnets made of rare earths. Tetrataenite is not found in nature—at least, not on earth. It is only found in meteorites. This means that making the...

There’s new ownership, new branding and a new name for the former Noront Resources in the Ring of Fire. But the path to start mining in Ontario’s Far North doesn’t look to be getting any shorter. After being shuttered for more than a year, field exploration activity is picking up...

Frontier Lithium is raising $20 million with which to continue exploration of the PAK lithium project in northwestern Ontario. The bought deal is underwritten by a syndicate led by RBC Capital Markets and Goldman Sachs. The underwriters have agreed to purchase 9.1 million units of Frontier at a price of $2.20...

A hard-charging Vancouver junior miner, aiming to develop a mine outside Matheson, reported a 47 per cent jump in the indicated gold estimate at its Fenn-Gib deposit. In an announcement this week, Mayfair Gold said the gold zones at Fenn-Gib continues to expand and now contains an indicated mineral resource estimate of...

Mayfair Gold has released an updated mineral resource estimate for its Fenn-Gib project located in the Timmins region of Northeast Ontario. The new resource is based on assay results from 61% (approximately 67,000 metres) of the company’s current 110,000-metre infill and expansion drill program. The Fenn-Gib gold deposit now hosts...

Probe Metals says drilling at its Val-d’Or East project’s Monique deposit in Quebec has returned “significant” gold intercepts that are likely to expand the area of the strike and increase its resource update due by year’s end. Highlights from the results of 45 new holes showed “continued strike and depth...

Four kilometres south of the community of Geraldton at the intersection of Highways 11 and 584, construction is underway to breathe life back into a former gold mining property. It stands to be transformative for this largely rural municipality in northwestern Ontario, 275 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. Since a groundbreaking ceremony last...

Vale, the world’s largest iron ore and nickel producer, has opened the first phase of a C$945 million ($684m) expansion at its Copper Cliff Complex South Mine in Ontario, Canada. The project’s initial expansion is expected to nearly double ore production at the Sudbury-based operation, adding about 10,000 tonnes of low-carbon...

Canada’s Marathon Gold has begun early site works at its proposed Valentine open-pit gold mine in central Newfoundland after satisfying pre-construction environmental assessment conditions. The project will see full mobilization by early 2023, the first ore to the mill at the end of 2024, and a production ramp-up during the first fiscal quarter of...

Electra Battery Materials has started testing out its battery recycling demonstration plant at its Temiskaming refinery site. The company announced Oct. 13 that plant commissioning is now underway following the installation of two key circuits, a material feed handling system and a lime delivery system. Toronto-based Electra is retrofitting an existing...

Premier Doug Ford was on hand today for the grand opening of Vale’s $945-million Copper Cliff Complex South Mine expansion. South Mine is a first-phase extension of the existing Copper Cliff Mine that will allow the company to access newer ore bodies beneath the community of Copper Cliff in Sudbury’s east...

A Rio Tinto Plc plant in Quebec is getting an upgrade — and backing from Canada’s government — to help the mining giant slash greenhouse gas emissions and boost output of metals crucial to electric vehicles. Rio Tinto is spending about C$515 million ($374 million) on its Fer et Titane...

Australia’s Vital Metals (ASX: VML), the first rare earths producer in Canada, has walked away from a deal Quebec Precious Metals Corp. (TSX-V: QPM) to buy the junior’s Zeus project and a 68% stake the Kipawa heavy rare earths, inked last year. Vital’s new management informed QPM that it had not been satisfied with the results...

Engineers at the University of Toronto are proposing a new, more sustainable method to mine lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from lithium-ion batteries that have reached the end of their lives. In a paper recently published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling, the researchers explain that conventional processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are energy...

Emerging Australian lithium miner Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) is closer to the restart of production at its North American Lithium (NAL) project in La Corne, Quebec, as it awarded a four-year, $200 million ($147m) contract to Quebec company L. Fournier et Fils for mining operations. This is one of the...

Volatility on metal and mining markets continued in the third quarter with copper losing sight of record prices hit in March, gold’s bounce back sputtering, lithium doubling in price year to date, coal surging to unprecedented levels, potash advancing to a 14-year peak and uranium experiencing the best market since Fukushima. The MINING.COM TOP 50* ranking of the world’s...

In today’s mining operations, increasing productivity and efficiency while reducing environmental footprint is key. The NRC’s High-efficiency Mining program develops sensing and maintenance technologies to support a sustainable, socially responsible and productive Canadian mining industry. We work closely with equipment manufacturers and mine operators to tackle the most complex challenges...