Altamira Secures Land Access West of Maria Bonita, Opening Path to Drilling

Altamira Gold (TSXV: ALTA) has secured surface access to the western portion of its Cajueiro exploration licenses in Brazil, opening up 58 square kilometres of largely untested ground and clearing the way for drilling at one of the company’s most compelling targets. Only about 5 square kilometres of that area has been systematically sampled to […]
Omai Gold PEA Outlines An 351,488 Ounce A Year Mine in Guyana

Omai Gold Mines (TSXV: OMG) has finally put numbers to the project it is named after. The company’s preliminary economic assessment for the Omai gold project in Guyana lays out an 18-year operation producing 6.33 million payable ounces of gold. Production is expected to average 351,488 ounces a year, peaking at 435,667 ounces. Using a […]
Mercado Minerals Wraps First Copalito Drill Program, Lifts Vein Count to Eight

Mercado Minerals (CSE: MERC) has completed the first drill program at its Copalito silver-gold project, a 25 hole campaign that expanded the property’s vein inventory rather than simply confirming it. The program, covering holes COP-26-001 through COP-26-025, tested seven separate structures. It lifted the number of principal veins at Copalito from six to eight and […]
Lundin Mining Cuts Copper Guidance After Second Storm Hits Caserones

Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) has cut its 2026 copper guidance after a second severe winter storm tore through Chile’s Atacama region, undoing much of the recovery work at its Caserones operation and pushing a full restart further out. The storm arrived on Aug. 13, dropping heavy rain at lower elevations and unusually heavy snow, driven […]
China Fast-Tracks Removal of Its Custom Windows Edition From State Computers

The software being pulled isn’t Windows in general but a specific joint-venture build Microsoft co-developed with a state-owned Chinese firm — and its early retirement sent domestic OS makers’ shares surging.
US Sanctions ICC Officials Tied to Putin and Netanyahu Arrest Warrants

ICC President Tomoko Akane signed off on Putin’s arrest warrant; senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye helped build the case against Netanyahu. The US sanctioned both this week, the first time its campaign against the ICC has reached the court’s sitting president.
What’s at Stake as Canada’s Tariff Pause Buys Three More Days

Behind Tuesday night’s last-minute reprieve was a monthslong standoff over dairy quotas, steel and aluminum relief, and a tariff law that hadn’t been used in 96 years — and small Canadian exporters say the rate alone was already doing damage.
Trump Suspends Canadian Tariffs Hours Before Midnight Deadline

Hundreds of Canadian products that were bracing for a 50 per cent tariff will get a temporary reprieve, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a three-day suspension of the levies less than two hours before they were due to take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. Trump tied the pause to progress at the negotiating […]
Kalshi S&P 500 Perpetual Futures Filing Challenges CME Group

Kalshi is moving into CME Group’s core equity-index territory while CME Group is already suing the regulator over the contract structure making that challenge possible. The prediction-market firm is seeking regulatory clearance to extend its perpetual-futures model into major U.S. stock indexes. According to Reuters, the company submitted equity-index contracts to the Commodity Futures Trading […]
White House Defends Trump Voting By Mail As He Push To Restrict Mail-In Voting

The White House is arguing that President Donald Trump’s use of a mail ballot is consistent with his campaign to restrict mail voting, even as his administration asks the Supreme Court to revive federal rules that would give the government a larger role in determining which voters can receive ballots through the Postal Service. The […]