America’s heavy reliance on China for gallium and germanium – two obscure but increasingly strategic technology metals – is driving a new generation of domestic extraction technologies aimed at reshoring critical mineral supply chains. One of the latest efforts is a newly announced partnership between Found Industries, whose Found Metals division is developing critical metals recovery technology born out of America’s gallium supply vulnerability, and ARES Strategic Mining Inc., owner of the only currently permitted fluorspar mine in the United States. Under a memorandum of understanding signed by the companies, Found Metals will evaluate the recovery of gallium, germanium, and…
Author: TJ Markle
Eureka Lithium Corp. (CSE: ERKA) (OTCQB: UREKF) (FSE: S58) (“Eureka” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it intends to change its name from “Eureka Lithium Corp.” to “Eureka Metals Corp.” The name change reflects the Company’s strategic evolution beyond lithium exploration and aligns with its recently announced acquisition of Stairway Mining. Through Stairway, Eureka holds a 100% interest in the Tyee Titanium Project in Quebec, which is prospective for titanium-vanadium-scandium mineralization, and an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Cabin Lake Polymetallic Project in British Columbia, which is prospective for silver-lead-zinc-gold mineralization. These additions broaden the Company’s exposure to multiple…
Canada’s federal government rolled out $1.5 billion in financial support this week for companies grappling with new U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper products, a move that could reshape how mining companies position themselves in North American supply chains. “We are taking concrete action to strengthen Canada’s economy by standing behind our steel, aluminum and copper industries,” Mélanie Joly, federal minister of industry and minister responsible for Canada economic eevelopment for Quebec regions, said. “The new measures announced today will protect workers and ensure companies have the tools and financing they need to keep operating, growing, and building Canada’s…
Vancouver-based American Pacific Mining Corporation has secured drilling contracts with two contractors to complete Phase 1 of a combined reverse circulation and diamond core drill program on its Madison copper/gold project, Montana. The 15 000 m drill program is expected to start in May. The upcoming campaign is the largest coordinated drill programme initiated by the company at Madison to date and is designed to systematically extend and expand on shallower high-grade copper and gold mineralization, as well as test for deeper porphyry discovery targets. For the reverse circulation drilling portion, the company has engaged O’Keefe Drilling based in Butte, Montana. For the diamond core portion of the…
One of the more common uses of rare transition metals is to act as catalysts. Catalysts are basically substances that speed up chemical reactions without getting used up themselves. They show up in everything from fertilizer production to the catalytic converters sitting under your car. But because these catalysts are made from rare metals like platinum and palladium, they end up being pricey. Metals like platinum are a pain to dig out, too, thanks to their rarity. So it’s no surprise that chemists have been hunting for alternatives for years. And now, we may finally have an answer in the form of…
Some Yukon mining industry representatives and members of the legislature are welcoming news that the United States government will pay for a port project in southeast Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced last week that Skagway secured $38.6 million US to build a “modern industrial dock.” He said the Skagway port was among seven projects in the state that were chosen to receive federal grants under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Port Infrastructure Development Program. “Alaska’s ports are the economic lifelines of our communities,” Dunleavy said in a news release. Yukon Economic Development Minister Jen Gehmair said that deal works out…
As South African mining companies navigate the complexities caused by decades of intensive extraction, which have significantly reduced the availability of the world’s richest and most accessible high-grade ore deposits, South African research and development organisation Mintek has created MinBind as a novel inorganic binder – a non-organic chemical additive – to unlock the value of low-grade ore resources. In a media release, Mintek notes that improved permeability and heap stability mean higher recovery efficiency from underused ores, saying MinBind delivers real gains. With ore grades dropping globally, the organisation says this innovation is key to keeping heap leaching viable,…
As mining operations place increasing pressure on plant throughput, equipment longevity and environmental control, transfer point design is becoming a far more strategic component of materials handling systems. According to Dewald Tintinger, Technical Director at Weba Chute Systems, poorly engineered chute systems can have a disproportionate impact on plant performance, influencing everything from material flow consistency and belt loading to dust generation, spillage and accelerated wear on downstream equipment. “A transfer point should never be treated as a static piece of infrastructure,” Tintinger says. “It is an engineered flow control solution that plays a direct role in throughput stability, maintenance…
Zambia’s talks with the US over a new $2 billion health aid deal stalled because the proposed agreement included data sharing that would violate citizens’ privacy rights and was conditional on first agreeing to preferential access to mineral resources, the nation’s foreign minister said. The inclusion of the terms related to data sharing were unacceptable and “unconscionable,” Mulambo Haimbe said in a statement Monday. He also said it was concerning that the health pact depended on the governments signing a critical minerals agreement favoring US companies. Haimbe was responding to the outgoing US Ambassador Michael Gonzales, whose farewell speech last…
Tribes navigating the U.S. lithium boom have little power to influence decisions on homelands seized from them. Governments in other countries have begun to build systems that offer stronger legal protections. In the U.S., many Native American tribes maintain deep cultural and historical ties to ancestral lands outside of reservation boundaries. A 19th-century mining law still governs much of today’s lithium boom—and it doesn’t require the federal government to consult tribes before mining projects advance on these ancestral lands. While some federal policies attempt to fill that gap, tribal consultation often remains discretionary and occurs too late—leaving tribes with little…