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Woodside, Australian govt extend consultation period for North West Shelf enviro approval
13th June 2025 By: Reuters

Woodside Energy and the Australian government said on Friday they have extended the consultation period for conditions tied to the environmental approval of the firm's North West Shelf LNG project... 


Photo of the existing historical Speewah access tracks at the Dunham River crossing.
Tivan progresses culturally sensitive access road realignment for Speewah project
13th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Tivan is progressing development planning for a revised access road to its Speewah fluorite project, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with a focus on cultural sensitivity... 


Lac Tio mine, Quebec
Rio Tinto to trial ore sorting tech at Lac Tio mine with Quebec government support
13th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Diversified major Rio Tinto will invest C$7.6-million in an industrial demonstration project aimed at assessing the integration of ore sorting technology at its Lac Tio mine, in Havre-Saint-Pierre,... 


EV Resources buys majority stake in Mexican antimony mine
12th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Perth-based EV Resources (EVR) has finalised its acquisition of a 70% interest in the Los Lirios antimony mine in Mexico. The company said on Thursday that it had met all conditions precedent under... 


Southern Palladium Executive Chairperson Roger Baxter.
Capital raised to advance one of South Africa's last PGM development opportunities
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Sydney- and Johannesburg-listed platinum group metals (PGM) development company Southern Palladium has secured commitments to raise equity capital of A$8-million to advance the staged mine... 


Zambia’s South Africa-based cadastre system developer re-engaged, Ministry confirms
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Zambia’s South Africa-developed mining cadastre licensing system portals have been reactivated, the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development has confirmed. “The disruption was due to the... 


First ore being fed into the crusher on June 11.
Meeka begins commissioning at Murchison gold project
12th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Meeka Metals has begun its transition from gold project developer to producer with commissioning of its Murchison project in Western Australia getting under way. The ASX-listed company said on... 


Hastings names new CEO
12th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Hastings Technology Metals has appointed Vince Catania as CEO. Catania, who joined Hastings in January 2023 as general manager of corporate, assumes the CEO role effective immediately. 


PGI CEO Tim Schlick
Platinum jewellery enjoying strong growth in its key markets
12th June 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

Global platinum jewellery marketing organisation Platinum Guild International (PGI) believes that the metal enjoyed strong growth opportunities in the jewellery sector. To turn opportunity into... 


Talga wins permit for graphite mine as Sweden dismisses appeals
Talga wins permit for graphite mine as Sweden dismisses appeals
12th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Talga has cleared the final regulatory hurdle for its Nunasvaara South graphite mine in northern Sweden, after the national government dismissed all outstanding appeals against the... 


Kinetiko to raise $2.2m through placement to fund commercialisation of Mpumalanga gas projects
12th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

ASX-listed Kinetiko Energy has received firm commitments from professional and sophisticated investors to raise up to $2.2-million through the placement of more than 55-million new fully paid... 


South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa flanked by CFM Green Hydrogen executive Sebastiaan Surie (left) and Hive Hydrogen chairperson Thulani Gcabashe.
South Africa’s green hydrogen sector boosted by big-ticket funding commitments
12th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In a step to accelerate South Africa’s just energy transition and establish the country as a global green hydrogen leader, R656-million has been committed to a green hydrogen fund. South Africa’s... 


Hancock to merge Roy Hill and Atlas Iron under new banner
Hancock to merge Roy Hill and Atlas Iron under new banner
12th June 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting is consolidating its two iron-ore businesses – Roy Hill and Atlas Iron – into a single entity named Hancock Iron Ore, in a move the company says will combine the... 


World Bank president Ajay Banga
World Bank to end ban on nuclear energy projects, still debating upstream gas
12th June 2025 By: Reuters

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as part of a broader push to meet rising electricity needs, the bank's... 


Platinum surges, palladium lags on narrow demand profile
Platinum surges, palladium lags on narrow demand profile
12th June 2025 By: Reuters

Platinum and palladium prices have both rallied this month, notching a more than four-year and seven-month high respectively, but analysts say they remain more cautious about the outlook for... 


Cokal secures $15m to boost BBM coal production, cuts ties with Cratus
11th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Cokal has secured a $15-million strategic debt funding facility to support the expansion of metallurgical coal production at its Bumi Barito Mineral (BBM) mine in Central Kalimantan,... 


Bowen to assume owner-operator role at Burton Mine Complex
Bowen to assume owner-operator role at Burton Mine Complex
11th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Bowen Coking Coal has announced it would transition the Burton Mine Complex in Queensland to an owner-operator model, with the shift to take effect on July 1, following the expiry of its... 


Mogale Tailings Retreatment plant,
Pan African proves it can commission large gold projects abroad with aplomb
11th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa witnessed Pan African build the Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) gold project on Johannesburg’s West Rand ahead of schedule and below budget. Now Australia is witnessing this... 


Pilbara grows Pilgangoora resource by 23%
11th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Pilbara Minerals has announced a 23% increase in contained lithium at its Pilgangoora operation in Western Australia, following a drilling campaign. The updated mineral resource now... 


US Secretary of the Department of Interior Doug Burgum and Dateline MD Stephen Baghdadi.
Trump administration backs Dateline’s Colosseum REE project
11th June 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

The Trump administration has thrown its weight behind Dateline Resources’ push to fast-track the development of its Colosseum rare earths project in California, as the US moves to reduce its... 


Lower grade Australian iron-ore sparks global benchmark change
Lower grade Australian iron-ore sparks global benchmark change
11th June 2025 By: Reuters

The longstanding global pricing benchmark for most traded iron-ore cargoes will be adjusted in 2026 to reflect the falling quality of ore from top supplier Australia, pricing service Platts said.... 


Copper 360 CEO Graham Briggs.
The immediate target of new Copper 360 CEO is 5 000 t of copper in six to 12 months
10th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The immediate target of new Copper 360 CEO Graham Briggs is 5 000 t of copper in six to 12 months. Based on current assessments, Briggs is of the firm belief that, within that period, the... 


Cobalt Blue scopes near-term copper/zinc opportunity at Halls Creek
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Cobalt Blue has completed a scoping study for its Halls Creek project in Western Australia, outlining a staged development plan aimed at delivering near-term copper and zinc production.... 


Original cadastre reportedly reactivated.
Mining cadastre that breaches must-be-Zambia-hosted stipulation reportedly reactivated
10th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

As of Monday morning June 10, it seems that Zambia’s Ministry of Mines and Mineral Development has reactivated the cadastre portal that is non-locally hosted amid the in-country-hosted version... 


Rio Tinto seeks innovative collaborators at London Tech Week
Rio Tinto seeks innovative collaborators at London Tech Week
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Diversified miner Rio Tinto is taking its innovation strategy directly to entrepreneurs, researchers and innovators at London Tech Week as it works to accelerate the breakthroughs needed to... 


AGC secures belt-scale control of South Cobar with new tenement deal
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Australian Gold and Copper (AGC) has struck a deal to acquire a strategic exploration licence in New South Wales, giving the junior explorer belt-scale control of the South Cobar basin.... 


Rebecca Tomkinson
CME boss named WA’s new UK agent general
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Western Australia has appointed Chamber of Minerals and Energy chief executive Rebecca Tomkinson as its next agent general to the UK and Europe, as the state ramps up efforts to attract foreign... 


Port of Dampier
New agreement to decarbonise WA iron-ore exports
10th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Delaware-based Terra Metals and its Zambian subsidiary, Lunda Resources, have reported flotation recoveries of 96.5%copper and concentrate grades nearing 27% at their Kalaba copper project in... 


FireFly builds A$135m war chest to fast-track Green Bay copper/gold project
FireFly builds A$135m war chest to fast-track Green Bay copper/gold project
10th June 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Dual-listed FireFly Metals has raised A$135-million to advance its Green Bay copper/gold project in Newfoundland and Labrador, boosting its balance sheet to fund aggressive exploration and... 


Thulani Gcabashe (right) and Donald McGillivray.
South Africa's green hydrogen project backed by 1 430 MW fully permitted solar cluster
9th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The Coega Green Ammonia project in Nelson Mandela Bay has reached another milestone – the permitting of a 1 430 MW solar PV cluster development phase that will supply 40% of the power required by... 


China’s copper boom under threat as miners test bargaining power
China’s copper boom under threat as miners test bargaining power
9th June 2025 By: Bloomberg

The unrelenting expansion of Chinese copper processing capacity over the past few years has now become a global headache, as smelters scramble to secure the ore they need to produce the vital... 


Empire reports ‘exceptional’ results from titanium testwork
9th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Aim-quoted Empire Metals on Monday announced the results from its most recent titanium dioxide (TiO2) product development testwork programme, carried out on mineral flotation concentrates produced... 


West Cobar brings Mystique into its fold
9th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed West Cobar has completed the acquisition of the Mystique project – an exploration licence in the Fraser Range province of Western Australia – from base metals miner IGO. The licence... 


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