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1 week ago | 
metaltechnews.com | Shane Lasley
Electric, automated, and intelligent – this is the direction Liebherr is taking its heavy earthmoving equipment for mining and construction. To push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and autonomy for industrial applications, the German manufacturing giant has joined forces with Reycom and Qualcomm Technologies to launch LiRISE – a new generation of edge AI gateway solutions.
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2 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
Western Alaska Minerals Corp. April 10 announced that it has identified significant quantities of the critical mineral gallium associated with the zinc-lead-silver mineralization within the Waterpump Creek carbonate replacement deposit (CRD) on its Illinois Creek project about 300 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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2 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
American West Metals Ltd. April 9 announced that it has secured a major offtake and financing package that will accelerate the exploration and development of a direct shipping ore (DSO) mine at the high-grade Storm Copper project along Northwest Passage shipping lanes in northern Nunavut. American West Metals Ltd.
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2 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
United States Antimony Corp. April 7 announced the expansion of its antimony-gold claims near Fairbanks, Alaska, and in the Maclaren River area south of the Alaska Range. Last summer, the critical minerals-focused company that owns an antimony smelter in Montana began building a portfolio of claims in Alaska enriched with antimony, copper, gold, silver, and other minerals.
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2 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
Todd Dahlman, a 40-year mining veteran who recently served as deputy general manager at Kinross Gold's Fort Knox mine, has been tapped as the new general manager for the world-class Donlin Gold project in Southwest Alaska.
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2 weeks ago | 
metaltechnews.com | Shane Lasley |MP Materials
China responded to President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs with 34% tariffs on imports from the United States plus restrictions on a group of seven rare earth elements vital to aerospace, auto manufacturing, nuclear energy, and advanced weapons systems.
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3 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
While relations between Canada and the United States may be the coldest ever recorded, the leaders of both nations have a common vision that could help defrost tensions – investing in the strategic and resource-rich North to help ensure North American security and prosperity as we progress deeper into the 21st century.
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3 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
Trilogy Metals Inc. April 2 reported that it has enough cash to cover its share of the 2025 expenses at Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (UKMP), which covers 471,800 acres of the Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska. Being advanced by a 50-50 joint venture between Trilogy and South 32 Ltd., UKMP hosts the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-gold-silver mine project, the Bornite copper-silver-cobalt deposit, and more than a dozen earlier-staged mineral projects.
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3 weeks ago | 
miningnewsnorth.com | Shane Lasley
A downgrade to the reserves and resources at the Goose gold mine project in Nunavut has tarnished the glimmer of B2Gold Corp. launching its first mine in Canada amid a bull run that continues to push the price of gold to new records. Two years after investing C$1.1 billion ($760 million) to acquire Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. and that company's Back River gold project, B2Gold is closing in on pouring the first bar of gold at the Goose mine on the property.
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3 weeks ago | 
metaltechnews.com | Shane Lasley
In preparation for the commercial production of rare earth magnets needed for electric vehicles and countless high-tech devices and household goods, USA Rare Earth has opened an advanced Innovation Lab that allows it to rapidly prototype the neodymium-iron-boron (neo) magnets to be commercially produced at its plant in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
