Canada's main stock index rose on Friday to round out a positive holiday-shortened week, with nine of 10 major sectors participating as investors looked ahead to a potentially volatile year for the market.

The U.S. Forest Service issued the final go-ahead for an Idaho mining operation that will supply much of America's antimony needs in the coming decades.

The Biden administration on Friday issued the final mining permit for Perpetua Resources' antimony and gold mine in Idaho, according to two sources familiar with the matter, a move aimed at offseting China's near-total market control of a metal used widely across the defense and energy sectors.