While rare earth elements are “essential ingredients for our modern lives,” up to 82% of rare earth elements are imported from other countries, notes Aaron Noble, Virginia Tech professor and head of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering and interim head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Full story.
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Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals has resumed operations in Snow Lake following the decision by the Manitoba Wildfire Service and the Town of Snow Lake to lift the mandatory wildfire evacuation order. Full story.
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Equinox Gold has provided an update on its cornerstone Canadian mining operations: the Valentine gold mine in Newfoundland & Labrador and the Greenstone gold mine in northern Ontario. Read more.
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American Rare Earths, through its subsidiary Wyoming Rare (USA) Inc., has commenced construction of a test mine at the Cowboy State mine, part of the Halleck Creek deposit in Wyoming. The test mining program will extract approximately 3,200 tonnes of ore. Full story.
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James (Jim) Stockton Redpath, founder of underground mining service provider Redpath Group, recently passed away in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, “after a courageous 20-year journey with Parkinson’s Disease.” He was 88. Full story.
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A strategic partnership between Virginia Tech and Alcara Technologies, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Aclara Resources, aims to strengthen a sustainable domestic supply chain for critical heavy rare earth elements. Full story.
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Mitsubishi Corporation has agreed to acquire a 30% interest in Copper World LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hudbay Minerals, for an initial cash contribution of $600 million. The company owns the Copper World project in Arizona. Full story.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration is making $10.5 million in grant funding available to help provide mine safety training for the nation’s miners. Full story.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved a mining plan modification that will unlock 14.5 million tons of federally owned coal at the Antelope mine in Converse County, Wyo., extending the life of the mine through 2037. Full story.
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Elk Creek Resources, a subsidiary of NioCorp Developments, has been awarded up to $10 million, subject to the achievement of certain milestones, from the U.S. Department of Defense to support the establishment of a domestic scandium mine-to-manufacture supply chain via the Elk Creek critical minerals project in southeast Nebraska. Full story.
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