Fraser Institute – Annual Survey of Mining Companies

There are only three known mines in the world that are currently mining niobium as the primary ore. Two of these are in Brazil, which produces about 90% of world output, and the third is an underground mine in the Province of Québec. Niobium’s two primary uses are in the steel industry and as a super-alloy. [more]

Top deals closing this month included Osisko Mining receiving $177M and Lundin Gold closing C$57.5 million, both from bought-deal financings. Artemis Gold expects to raise $175 million from a bought-deal agreement with a syndicate of underwriters as well as a non-brokered offering. [more]

Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU) secured a $4.25 million dollar technology commercialization grant from the Canadian government funded sustainable development technology program to build a graphite purification processing facility in Quebec, Canada [more]