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Namib Minerals plans to spend $300m to restart Zimbabwe mines
Namib Minerals plans to spend $300-million to restart operations at two of its mothballed gold mines in Zimbabwe and lift production, its chief executive Ibrahima Tall told Reuters on Tuesday....
Newmont CFO resigns, insider named interim finance chief
Gold miner Newmont said on Monday its CFO Karyn Ovelmen has resigned and named insider Peter Wexler as interim CFO until a permanent successor is selected. Wexler previously served as chief legal...
Australia and China call for more dialogue, cooperation at leaders' meeting
China is ready to work with Australia to deepen bilateral ties, President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday in Beijing. The meeting...
China's first-half coal output rises 5% on the year
China's coal output in the first six months of the year rose 5% on the year, data from the statistics bureau showed on Tuesday, as authorities focus on ensuring sufficient supply of the fuel as...
Alcoa sees up to $110m loss as Spain aluminium smelter restart delayed
Alcoa said on Monday it expects to complete the restart of its San Ciprian aluminium smelter in Spain by mid-2026 and anticipates up to $110-million in losses due to the delay. Production at the...
Australia PM touts green steel as iron-ore miners meet Chinese steelmakers
Australia and China should cooperate more closely over green steel, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in Shanghai on Monday, even as he called on the world's largest steelmaker to address excess...
China's June coal imports sink to more than two-year low
China's June coal imports fell to the lowest monthly level in over two years, General Administration of Customs data showed on Monday, as the country's miners ramped up domestic production to...
China's rare earth exports jump in June in sign of trade war relief
China's rare earths exports rose 32% in June from the month before, customs data showed on Monday, in a potential sign that agreements reached last month to free up the flow of the metals are...
MMG, Hudbay warn Peru production at risk amid wildcat protests - sources
MMG and Hudbay Minerals executives met with Peru's cabinet chief Eduardo Arana on Thursday to warn that production at their copper mines could be affected if a two-week protest by informal miners...
Ecuador, Codelco claim victory over Llurimagua mining arbitration
The Ecuador attorney general's office and Chilean state miner Codelco both claimed victory on Friday after an international arbitration court ordered Ecuador to pay some $25=million of a...
China rejects EU condemnation over rare earth controls
China urged the European Parliament to stop politicising trade and economic issues and applying double standards on export controls, its mission to the European Union said on Friday. The remarks...
How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled
An Israeli-American businessman, a former State Department official and a decorated Green Beret pitched up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March with a message for President Felix Tshisekedi...
First Quantum says Prospect investment key to Zambia copper expansion
First Quantum Minerals' recent investment in Prospect Resources is key to the extension of mine life at Zambia's Sentinel mine, FQM's country director Anthony Mukutuma said on Friday. The...
Copper's positive, long-term trajectory unchanged despite US tariff, Barrick CEO says
Copper miners remain bullish on the metal's future prospects even as a looming 50% US tariff creates short-term price volatility, Barrick Mining Corp CEO Mark Bristow said in Zambia, where the...
Hudbay Minerals suspends Snow Lake operations due to wildfire
Canadian copper miner Hudbay Minerals said on Thursday it has temporarily suspended operations in Snow Lake due to a wildfire in Northern Manitoba. Some exploration work near Snow Lake has also...
Mali military helicopter airlifts gold from Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto
A Malian military helicopter airlifted gold from the Barrick-owned Loulo-Gounkoto complex on Thursday, three sources said, days after Reuters reported that a court-appointed administrator planned...
Zimbabwe forex rule costs gold miners amid price rally
Soaring prices are driving Zimbabwe's gold output and income, but the government's foreign currency retention rules are eating into producers' earnings, the country's mining industry body said. The...
US issues expedited permit for proposed Tennessee coal mine
The Trump administration said it permitted a proposed coal mine in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Tuesday under an expedited process aimed at accelerating federal environmental reviews of energy...
Workers at Glencore's Australian coal mine go on strike over pay gap issues
Australia's Mining and Energy Union (MEU) said on Wednesday workers at Glencore's underground coal mine in New South Wales began a 24-hour strike action in the afternoon, demanding wage hikes to...
Emirates Global Aluminium says Guinea wrongfully terminated deal
Emirates Global Aluminium said on Wednesday that the Guinean government had wrongfully terminated an agreement with its subsidiary, Guinea Alumina Corporation, after a year-long dispute over the...
Ghana launches task force to curb gold smuggling losses
Ghana President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday launched a task force backed by security forces to address illegal gold trading, as Africa's top producer seeks to recover billions of dollars lost to...
How US buyers of critical minerals bypass China's export ban
Unusually large quantities of antimony - a metal used in batteries, chips and flame retardants - have poured into the United States from Thailand and Mexico since China barred US shipments last...
World's top copper producer Chile in wait-and-see mode after Trump tariff bombshell
Chile, the world's No. 1 copper producer, is in wait-and-see mode after US President Donald Trump announced a surprise 50% tariff on imports of the red metal, with the Andean nation blindsided...
Trump says US to impose 50% tariff on copper imports, copper futures jump
President Donald Trump said he will announce a 50% tariff on copper on Tuesday, hoping to boost US production of a metal critical to electric vehicles, military hardware, the power grid and many...
Mali plans to sell gold reserves at Barrick complex to fund operations
-The Malian court-appointed administrator of Barrick Mining's Loulo-Gounkoto complex plans to sell one metric ton of gold from the site's storeroom as operations commence again after an almost...
Glencore to sell copper smelter to Philippines’ Villar family
Glencore has agreed to sell its struggling copper refinery in the Philippines to the family of the country’s richest man as the smelting industry reels from the lowest processing fees on record....
Third of chip production could face copper supply disruptions by 2035, PwC report says
Some 32% of global semiconductor production could face climate change related copper supply disruptions by 2035, quadrupling from today's levels, advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in...
China risks global heavy rare-earth supply to stop Myanmar rebel victory
The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the Chinese-backed military junta in the hills of northern Myanmar. The Kachin...
Guinea bauxite exports up 36% to 99.8Mt on Chinese demand
Guinea's exports of bauxite, a feedstock for aluminium, jumped 36% to a record 99.8-million metric tons in the first half of 2025, driven by robust Chinese demand that offset declines from a...
Newmont to fire at least 10% of staff at Suriname's Merian mine
Newmont, the world's largest listed gold miner, announced on Friday that it would lay off 10% to 15% of its workforce at its Merian mine in Suriname, citing production declines. "Since 2021, gold...
Canada could financially back aluminum producers if 50% US tariffs persist, trade group says
Canada has discussed offering financial support to large aluminum producers like Rio Tinto impacted by a US-led trade war, in the event that Washington's 50% tariff on imports of the metal persist...
Japan to begin test mining rare-earth mud from seabed in early 2026
Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1 900 km southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the government-backed project...
Bolivian congress brawls over China, Russia lithium deals
Bolivia's energy minister was doused with water and pelted with garbage on Thursday as chaos erupted in congress during a debate on controversial lithium contracts with Chinese and Russian firms...
Australia's PM says he expects 10% US baseline tariff to stay
Australia will likely still be subjected to the 10% tariff rate on all exports to US but the government will continue to try and negotiate for an exemption, Australian Prime Minister Anthony...
Indonesia nickel miners urge government to maintain three-year mining quota
Indonesia's nickel miners' association APNI on Friday urged the government to ensure mining quotas continue to be valid for three years to maintain a consistent business climate, rather than...
China's foreign minister dismisses European worries over rare earths
China's foreign minister downplayed European worries over rare earth exports restrictions on Thursday, saying it was standard practise to control dual-use goods exports but that Europe's needs...
JSW renews bid for $444m tax refund amid liquidity squeeze
Polish state-controlled coal miner JSW renewed on Thursday its request for a 1.6-billion zloty ($443.6-million) refund of the "solidarity levy", a windfall tax on excess profits, as it faces...
Nornickel lowers forecast for 2025 nickel surplus to 120 000 t
Russian mining giant Nornickel expects this year's nickel surplus to be 120 000 t which is 30 000 t lower than it previously thought, it said in a metals market review on Thursday. Nornickel, the...
Vale cuts forecast for iron-ore agglomerates output amid market weakness
Brazilian miner Vale on Wednesday lowered its forecast for iron ore agglomerates production in 2025, as the pellet market struggles with oversupply concerns and reduced demand for high-quality...
France's Orano says its Niger uranium mine on verge of bankruptcy
French uranium miner Orano said on Wednesday its majority-owned joint venture with Niger, SOMAIR, is on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of export restrictions imposed by Niger's military...
Indonesia plans to cut mining quota period back to one year, minister says
Indonesia plans to cut the duration of mining quotas back to one year from the current three years to improve governance in the sector and better control coal and ore supplies, Mining Minister...
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