The Calgary-based company was forced to shut down the operation, with capacity to produce 240,000 barrels per day of bitumen, a few days after a leak was detected in the Polaris pipeline near Fort McMurray on Aug. 29.

The move came after activists and investors said the mining company had not done enough to address the blasting of the 46,000-year-old site against the wishes of traditional owners.

The 17 rare-earth elements are abundant in Saskatchewan, government officials say.

Cameco was expected to report an adjusted loss of five cents per share on $400.4 million of revenues, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.

Temporary mine closures, production losses, care and maintenance expenses and costs for new health and safety protocols will weigh heavily on second-quarter results for miners, said Moody's Investor Service in a recent report.

Hpakant is a rough and remote area in Kachin state, 950 kilometres (600 miles) north of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon.

The gems are the two biggest Tanzanite stones ever recorded, with the largest weighing in at 9.27 kg (20 pounds).

Lithium exploration and development are coming to Saskatchewan through a new joint lithium project announced on Wednesday.

The CEO of Teck Resources Ltd. defended his company's growth strategy on Tuesday as dissident shareholders criticized what they called "underperforming'' investments in coal and oilsands.

Cameco says uranium spot prices have increased by more than 35 per cent since the company announced the first disruption at its Cigar Lake mine on March 23.