Trump Vows to Cut Off Spain Over Base Access Refusal—But Can He?
President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to sever all trade with Spain after Madrid refused to grant the US military access to jointly operated bases for strikes on Iran — the latest in a string of punitive moves the administration has deployed against those it views as uncooperative. “We’re going to cut off all trade with […]
Canada Deploys $3.6 Billion to Accelerate Critical Minerals Development
Canada’s federal government unveiled more than $3.6 billion in new programs and investments at the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention on Monday, targeting the full critical minerals supply chain from exploration to export. Energy Minister Tim Hodgson formally launched two funds from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s November 2025 budget: the $1.5 billion […]
Israel Bombs Iran’s Assembly of Experts as Clerics Convene to Pick New Supreme Leader
Israeli forces struck the building housing Iran’s Assembly of Experts in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday, hitting the 88-member clerical body at the moment it was convening to elect a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28. An Israeli defense official said that […]
Antimony Resources Advances 4,000-Meter Bald Hill Drill Program
FULL DISCLOSURE: Antimony Resources is a sponsor of theDeepDive.ca via a third party. Antimony Resources (CSE: ATMY) said it has completed about 4,000 meters of its planned 10,000-meter 2026 drill program at the Bald Hill Antimony Project, with drilling continuing to intersect massive antimony-bearing stibnite in the Main Zone. The program began in mid-January and […]
Hajdu Launches Mining Workforce Alliance At PDAC
Canada is tying its critical minerals ambitions more directly to labour execution, with Minister Patty Hajdu using the PDAC convention in Toronto to convene industry stakeholders around a national plan aimed at easing workforce shortages across mining and mineral supply chains. The immediate policy vehicle is the new Mining and Minerals Workforce Alliance, which Hajdu […]
Mystery Trader Made $553K Betting on Iran’s Supreme Leader Days Before His Death
An anonymous Polymarket account called “Magamyman” collected more than $553,000 by betting that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be removed from power — a wager placed just before a joint US-Israeli airstrike killed him on February 28. The account did not stop there. Magamyman also staked roughly $87,000 on a separate contract predicting […]
Is This the Most Overlooked Critical Mineral? (+1000% Move) | Guy Bourassa – Scandium Canada
In this interview, we speak with Guy Bourassa, CEO of Scandium Canada (TSXV: SCD), about why scandium is drawing new attention as a strategic critical mineral and how the company is advancing one of the few primary scandium development stories in the market. We discuss what makes scandium different from better-known critical minerals, including its […]
Canada Strikes $12.1 Billion in Critical Minerals Deals, but Experts Question Whether It’s Enough
The Canadian government signed 30 new critical minerals deals with 12 allied nations Monday, committing $12.1 billion to projects ranging from rare earth recycling to lithium processing — a major bet that Ottawa can convert the country’s vast mineral wealth into a functioning industrial supply chain before geopolitical pressures make the window narrower. Energy and […]
Ontario Speeds Ring of Fire Roads Ahead by Five Years
Ontario is pulling forward the Ring of Fire road build by as much as five years, with construction now set to begin in June 2026 and the first road openings targeted for November 2030, accelerating access to one of the province’s most closely watched critical minerals regions. The province said that the revised build schedule […]
Cambria Gold Defines New High-Grade Target Near Premier Mill
Cambria Gold Mines (TSXV: CAMB) reported a broad, high-grade drill update from its Premier Gold Project in northwestern British Columbia, with 26,303 metres completed across 135 surface diamond drill holes, supporting both resource expansion and higher-confidence remodelling at Big Missouri. The strongest 2025 Big Missouri extension results came from 3,252 metres drilled across 15 holes […]