mining news July 2026
Evolution Mining Pays a 60% Premium for Carnaby
Evolution Mining agreed to pay a 60% premium to swallow a copper explorer it didn’t need to buy outright. In British Columbia, a different backer chose the opposite move: keep funding a junior’s drill program rather than acquire it, and one of those holes just returned 200 grams of gold per tonne over half a…
Barrick Takes 9.9% Stake in Kingfisher as Mount Polley Output Falls 64%
Barrick Mining agreed to buy a 9.9% stake in a junior explorer that has never produced an ounce of anything. The same week, British Columbia gave a different company permission to raise its tailings dam higher at the site of the worst mine disaster in Canadian history, on the same day that company reported its…
