Uranium and Energy Metals
Red Metal’s Farellon Lease Delivers Ore Ahead of Schedule
Highlights Red Metal Resources Ltd. (CSE: RMES; OTCPINK: RMESF; FSE: I660) reported on September 3, 2026 that its lessee, Minera KMT SpA, has completed the first deliveries of copper sulphide ore from the Farellon 1/8 concession to Empresa Nacional de Minería (ENAMI), Chile’s state-owned ore processor, at its Vallenar plant. Farellon is part of Red…
Anfield Energy Conducts First Velvet-Wood Underground Blast in Roughly Four Decades
Anfield Energy Inc. (TSXV: AEC; Nasdaq: AEC) has completed the first underground blast in roughly four decades at its Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium project in Utah. The blast follows the company’s receipt of a permit from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It marks another step in the rehabilitation of the historic…
What is Molybdenum Used For?
Molybdenum — commonly shortened to “moly” in the industry — is a metal that quietly strengthens much of the world’s critical infrastructure, from bridges and pipelines to power plants, while rarely attracting the same investor attention as gold, copper, or lithium. Its unusual production profile — heavily tied to copper mining as a byproduct rather…
Hot Chili Adds Fourth Rig as La Verde Drilling Continues
Hot Chili Limited (ASX: HCH; TSXV: HCH; OTCQX: HHLKF) reported new drill results on August 24, 2026 from its La Verde copper-gold porphyry discovery in Chile’s coastal Atacama region, continuing a drilling campaign the company has been building on for more than two years. La Verde sits about 30 kilometers south of Hot Chili’s larger…
Denarius Metals Buys Into Copper Giant, Backed by Trafigura
Denarius Metals Corp. (Cboe CA: DMET; OTCQX: DNRSF) reported on August 21, 2026 that it has closed two linked transactions announced earlier this month. This is genuinely two separate deals that closed on the same day, worth keeping apart: one is Denarius buying a stake in a different company’s copper project, and the other is…
IsoEnergy Closes Deal Forming DISA Uranium Corporation
IsoEnergy Ltd. (NYSE American: ISOU; TSX: ISO) reported on August 19, 2026 that it has closed its previously announced transaction with DISA Technologies, Inc. to form DISA Uranium Corporation, a new, privately held U.S. uranium company. IsoEnergy contributed its Utah portfolio of permitted, past-producing conventional uranium mines, the Tony M, Daneros, and Rim mines, along…
What Are Small Modular Reactors and Why Do They Matter for Uranium?
As covered in our earlier uranium explainer, global uranium demand is projected to rise sharply through 2040, driven substantially by a new and unexpected source: the electricity needs of AI data centers. A significant part of that story involves a specific nuclear technology — small modular reactors, or SMRs — that major technology companies are…
Viceroy and Blue Moon Metals Clash Over Norwegian Copper Project
Blue Moon Metals Inc. (TSXV: MOON; NASDAQ: BMM) shares fell after short-selling firm Viceroy Research published a critical report on the company on August 12, 2026, and the company issued a detailed rebuttal the following day. The dispute centers on Blue Moon’s flagship Nussir copper-gold-silver project in northern Norway, along with the value of a…
Red Metal Signs Royalty Lease on Irene-Margarita Concessions
Red Metal Resources Ltd. (CSE: RMES; OTCPINK: RMESF; FSE: I660) reported on August 12, 2026 that its Chilean subsidiary, Minera Polymet SpA, has signed a renewable five-year lease with CMS Catalina, a local small-scale mining company based in Vallenar, Chile, covering the company’s Irene and Margarita copper-gold concessions. Under the arrangement, CMS Catalina will handle…
What is Zinc Used For and Where is it Mined?
Zinc rarely generates the same headlines as gold, copper, or lithium, but it is the world’s fourth most widely consumed base metal, quietly underpinning global construction and infrastructure through a single dominant application: protecting steel from rust. Understanding zinc’s supply and demand picture rounds out a complete view of the base metals landscape covered elsewhere…
