The union support for Hudbay comes as the copper price has fallen 9.9% this month to $4.521 per lb. on the Comex exchange in New York on Friday from $5.0190 per lb. on April 1.

Rio Tinto (NYSE, LSE, ASX: RIO), Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel have made a A$75-million (C$65-million) bid for CZR Resources’ (ASX: CZR) undeveloped Robe Mesa iron ore project in… ...

Vancouver — As part of the proposed reorganization of Misty Mountain Gold (MGL-V), junior Taseko Mines (TKO-V) has inked a deal to pick up the Harmony gold project in British Columbia.”This reorganiz… ...

Power Metallic – which counts Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) founder Robert Friedland and former Goldcorp CEO Rob ...

Global gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) grew by US$21 billion in the first quarter to reach their second highest quarterly ...

DeepGreen Metals has formed partnerships with scientific research institutions and universities on its deep-sea discovery ...

KoBold Metals, backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has launched a four-continent search for lithium, the coveted metal used in batteries that power electric… ...

Yokogawa Electric, a Tokyo-headquartered electrical engineering and software company, is celebrating its 110 th anniversary this year (just like The Northern Miner!) with a new strategy to manage ...

Denver — In light of a successful 2000, Romios Gold (YRW-V) plans to resume drilling at the Scossa property, 6 miles southeast of the Rosebud mine in northern Nevada.The new campaign, budgeted at US$… ...

An agreement with Mirandor Exploration (MIG-M) sets the stage for Kinross Gold (K-T) to earn a 50% interest in the Railroad gold project in Nevada’s Carlin trend.To earn the interest from Mirandor, Ki ...

Africa-focused Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL) has postponed a scheduled sale of about 200,000 carats of diamonds from its Cullinan ...

Allied Gold (TSX: AAUC) (OTCQX: AAUCF) is creating a joint venture in Mali with a United Arab Emirates-based investment group that’s also covering the expansion of main mine Sadiola. Ambrosia… ...