Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota.

Key minerals such as copper, nickel, rare earths and lithium are on the brink of an unprecedented demand surge, projected to nearly triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040, according to accounting firm BDO’s ‘Annual Mining Report 2025’.

From the column: "Mining sulfide-ore upstream of the BWCAW is 'a direct attack on our way of life in northern Minnesota'."

President Donald Trump says he has ordered the US Mint to stop making pennies, which he correctly says cost more than one cent to produce.

Junior mining stocks, broadly speaking, are an asset class of extremes, where investors often overvalue companies whose operations are very good but not great, and undervalue companies whose advancements simply go unacknowledged.

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first cent was of a woman with flowing hair, who stood for liberty. The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc.

Power Nickel (TSXV: PNPN) has priced its recently announced private placement at C$2.83 a share, raising approximately C$40 million ($28 million) for its Nisk nickel-copper-platinum group metals project in Québec.

Nickels are made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, while pennies, despite their reputation of being a copper coin are copper-plated zinc, meaning they are only 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc. While all ...

TMC the metals company (TMC) has produced a high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt alloy and manganese silicate during a smelting campaign, run as