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Ferrochrome production.
We’re working with government, looking at possible solutions, says Glencore Alloys CEO
8th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

“We’re working with government, looking at possible solutions,” Glencore Alloys CEO Japie Fullard tells Mining Weekly amid Glencore reporting this week that not one of its ferrochrome smelters is... 


WA mines department approves Arrowsmith North silica sand project
8th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Western Australia's Mines, Petroleum and Exploration department has approved the mining proposal for the Arrowsmith North silica sand project, marking a milestone for VRX Silica as the company is... 


UK resets ties with Zimbabwe in push for critical minerals
UK resets ties with Zimbabwe in push for critical minerals
8th August 2025 By: Bloomberg

Zimbabwe and the UK are rekindling diplomatic ties after almost three decades of tension, driven by a global surge in demand for critical minerals that’s led the former colonial power to pursue... 


ASX grills Greatland over downgraded production targets, cost blowout
ASX grills Greatland over downgraded production targets, cost blowout
8th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has pressed Greatland Resources for answers on how it so significantly missed the production and cost targets set out in its prospectus, after the gold... 


IGO reports director resignation
8th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Critical minerals company IGO on Friday announced the resignation of Justin Osborne as nonexecutive director, amid a board renewal process.  Osborne, whose resignation will become effective on... 


Kathleen Valley in Western Australia
Liontown fortifies balance sheet with A$316m placement
8th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australian lithium miner Liontown has successfully completed a bookbuild for a fully underwritten A$266-million institutional placement and has accepted oversubscriptions by way of a... 


BHP, Vale offer $1.4bn settlement in UK lawsuit over Brazil dam disaster, FT reports
8th August 2025 By: Reuters

Global miners BHP Group and Vale have offered around $1.4-billion to settle a class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom tied to one of Brazil's worst-ever environmental disasters, the Financial... 


Fortescue executive chairperson Andrew Forrest
Australian miner Fortescue lands near $2bn loan to advance decarbonisation
8th August 2025 By: Reuters

Fortescue said on Friday it had secured a syndicated term loan facility worth 14.2-billion Chinese yuan ($1.98-billion) as the Australian miner looks to support its ambitious decarbonisation... 


Langer steps down from MinRes board
7th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Mineral Resources (MinRes) has announced the resignation of independent nonexecutive director Justin Langer, effective August 6. Langer, who joined the board in January 2023, cited... 


ETM acquires tin/tantalum/niobium mine in Spain
7th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX-listed Energy Transition Minerals has secured ownership of the Penouta tin/tantalum/niobium mine in Galicia, Spain, through a court-enforced auction process, positioning itself at the heart of... 


NexGen doubles uranium sales volumes with new US utility contract
7th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Uranium developer NexGen Energy has doubled its contracted sales volumes to more than 10-million pounds, signing a second offtake agreement with a major US utility as the company advances its... 


Perseus makes solid progress on Nyanzaga construction
7th August 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

ASX-listed Perseus Mining says it is making solid progress at the Nyanzaga gold project, in Tanzania, as bulk earthworks continue to lay the foundation for future infrastructure. The company says... 


Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu.
Khwelamet ferromanganese revival will begin minute Eskom gives feasible power rate
7th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The minute that Eskom gives Khwelamet an economically feasible power price, the refurbishing of two of the four furnaces at the dormant former Metalloys plant in Meyerton will begin and take six to... 


Australia to invest A$50m to boost Liontown's Kathleen lithium operations
Australia to invest A$50m to boost Liontown's Kathleen lithium operations
7th August 2025 By: Reuters

The Australian government said on Thursday it will invest A$50-million in Liontown Resources to help ramp up operations and transition to underground mining at its flagship Kathleen Valley project,... 


Rio Tinto chief technical officer Mark Davies
Rio Tinto says no economic incentive for green steel in Australia
7th August 2025 By: Reuters

Rio Tinto joined peer BHP on Thursday to play down Australia's prospects of building out a "green iron" sector that would help decarbonise the steel industry because the country lacks the economic... 


Glencore CEO Gary Nagle.
Glencore identifies major cost savings opportunities in half-year review
6th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

During the first half of this year, diversified mining and marketing group Glencore continued to optimise the business and position it for further value accretive growth, CEO Gary Nagle reported on... 


Critical Resources acquires New Zealand gold/antimony assets
Critical Resources acquires New Zealand gold/antimony assets
6th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Critical Resources has secured a strategically significant position in New Zealand’s Otago gold province through the acquisition of drill-ready and early-stage exploration assets in one... 


Lindian, Iluka enter binding offtake agreement for rare earth concentrate from Malawi
6th August 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

ASX-listed Iluka Resources has entered into a binding loan term sheet and a full-form offtake agreement with ASX-listed Lindian Resources for the long-term supply of rare earth concentrate from... 


Barrick Mining Corporation's Hemlo mine, in Canada
Barrick Gold reaches ‘safe closure’ of 13 tailings sites, aims to close five more soon
6th August 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

NYSE- and TSX-listed gold miner Barrick Mining Corporation has fulfilled its commitment to provide disclosure on its tailings facilities, in accordance with the Global Industry Standard on Tailings... 


Kefi executive chairperson Harry Anagnostaras-Adams
Kefi completes early works for Tulu Kapi
6th August 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

After inspections by the relevant independent certifiers, Aim-listed Kefi Gold and Copper has completed the required early works to enable full project development at its Tulu Kapi gold project, in... 


Matthew Crawford says senior miners must step up gold exploration.
Gold Fields exec calls on majors to ‘lean in’ on gold exploration
6th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Gold Fields greenfields exploration VP Matthew Crawford has called on major gold companies to play a greater role in early-stage discovery, saying the burden of exploration is increasingly being... 


Platinum bars produced by Impala Platinum in South Africa
Platinum crunch comes to a head as US, China snap up metal
6th August 2025 By: Bloomberg

A years-long supply crunch in platinum has come to a head, with banks scrambling for dwindling stocks in London as buyers in China and the US hoover up much of the available metal. The market... 


FireFly CEO Darren Cooke
FireFly builds copper growth story in Tier-1 Canada
6th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Exploration and development firm FireFly Metals has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past 18 months, with CEO Darren Cooke describing the acquisition of the Green Bay copper/gold... 


Nic Earner encouraged investors to rethink their view of Australia's East Coast mining jurisdictions.
Alkane emerges from Mandalay merger with scale and cash to grow
6th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Alkane Resources has emerged from its merger with Mandalay Resources as a mid-tier gold and antimony producer with three operating mines and ambitions for re-rating as it targets entry into the... 


New Besra board visits Malaysia project, launches strategic review
6th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Besra Gold’s newly elected board of directors has completed a visit to the company’s Bau gold project in Sarawak, Malaysia, and has kicked off an independent strategic review of the... 


Sanbrado in Burkina Faso
West African Resources targets 500 000 oz/y by 2029
6th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Gold miner West African Resources is aiming to become a sustainable 500 000 oz/y producer by 2029, underpinned by strong operational performance from its Sanbrado and Kiaka operations in Burkina... 


Resolution receives unsolicited A$225m offer for Horse Heaven project
Resolution receives unsolicited A$225m offer for Horse Heaven project
6th August 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Australia’s Resolution Minerals has confirmed receipt of an unsolicited, indicative and non-binding A$225-million offer from Nasdaq-listed Snow Lake Resources to acquire its recently secured Horse... 


The Tomingley operation in New South Wales
Alkane, Mandalay complete merger to form mid-tier gold and antimony producer
5th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia’s Alkane Resources has completed its merger with Canada-based Mandalay Resources, creating a dual-listed gold and antimony producer with operations in Australia and Sweden. The... 


An image of the Oyu Tolgoi project
Rio Tinto reports progress in achieving global tailings management standard conformance
5th August 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Diversified miner Rio Tinto chief technical officer Mark Davies says the group has worked hard over the past five years to bring its tailings facilities into conformance with the Global Industry... 


Askari complete technical due diligence at Ethiopia project
5th August 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

ASX-listed Askari Metals has completed technical due diligence on the Nejo gold and copper project, in Ethiopia, a key condition precedent for settlement of the acquisition, subject to shareholder... 


Lotus receives ESIA certificate for Kayelekera mine
5th August 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

ASX-listed Lotus Resources’ 85%-owned subsidiary Lotus (Africa), the owner of the Kayelekera uranium project, in Malawi, has received the environmental- and social-impact assessment (ESIA)... 


Toyota and China’s Shudao Investment  to build a hydrogen fuel cell plant in Chengdu.
Demand outlook for South Africa’s platinum uplifted by China-Toyota hydrogen project
5th August 2025 By: Martin Creamer

A development that is improving the demand outlook for South African platinum group metals (PGMs) is the announcement of a joint venture (JV) between Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation and China’s... 


Pilbara Minerals MD and CEO Dale Henderson
Lithium story broadens beyond EVs – Pilbara CEO
5th August 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Lithium is no longer just an electric vehicle (EV) story – the metal is emerging as a cornerstone of a much wider technological transformation, says Pilbara Minerals MD and CEO Dale Henderson.... 


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