Following challenges in the mining sector caused by colloidal silica in copper and cobalt leaching, mining chemicals supplier BME Metallurgy has succeeded in the development and application of an... 

In addition to their sizeable output, high-quality ore and increasing efforts towards bolstering local beneficiation, Africa’s key base metals projects are important sources in global supply... 

As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) works to leverage its mining sector for broader economic upliftment, it is balancing rising copper and cobalt production with the need to align operations... 

The Trump administration’s policies and repeated attacks on the independence of the Federal Reserve are bringing into question the role of the US dollar as the global reserve currency and driving... 

Africa does not have the luxury of treating regional cooperation and regional beneficiation as afterthoughts. If the continent continues to negotiate in small, fragmented units, the result will be... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo is sending its first shipment of copper to the US through a partnership with Mercuria Energy Group, as the Trump administration pushes to challenge China’s... 

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will urge Group of Seven nations and others to step up their efforts to reduce reliance on critical minerals from China when he hosts a dozen top finance... 

The Trump administration and US Congress are launching a plan this week to overturn former President Joe Biden's mining ban in northern Minnesota and prevent future administrations from taking... 

South Africa’s State-owned Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) says its $200-million funding contribution to a larger $753-million loan agreement with the Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR)... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo has pledged to uphold cobalt export quotas allocated to miners for 2025 despite months of delays under new rules, its mining regulator has said, as a pilot shipment... 

Glencore has become the first miner to export cobalt under Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC's) new quotas, sending a small initial shipment to test the system, one government source and two... 

Prices of cobalt hydroxide used to make chemicals for electric vehicle (EV) batteries have risen sharply this year due to cobalt export restrictions from top producer Democratic Republic of Congo,... 

Russian mining and metals giant Norilsk Nickel has fully completed the reconstruction of its cobalt production facility in the Murmansk region, which was damaged in a fire three years ago, the... 

Congo has set new conditions for cobalt exporters, according to a government circular reviewed by Reuters, potentially complicating a recently introduced quota system as the country seeks to keep a... 

South African private equity firms and lenders will invest $600-million in debt and equity on a dry port in the Democratic Republic of Congo to ease congestion on one of Africa’s busiest mineral... 

The global energy transition needs investment of a further $304-trillion, Glencore CEO Gary Nagle pointed out during the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed diversified mining and marketing... 

TSX-V- and Nasdaq-listed NexMetals Mining has completed the contingent milestone payment of $25-million to the liquidator of former Botswana State-owned mining company BCL, giving the company full... 

A US-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda despite the... 

Zambia’s Presidency rejected proposed regulations that seek to give the state a minimum 15% stake in mines producing copper and other critical minerals without having to pay for it. A draft... 

Africa’s minerals are indispensable for a clean economy and these range from platinum-group metals (PGMs), which power hydrogen and fuel cells, to cobalt and manganese, which will drive battery... 

Canada’s first Social Acceptability Barometer for the mining sector shows strong national support for developing critical minerals, but the public expects tighter environmental oversight, better... 

The State cobalt agency in Democratic Republic of Congo has produced its first 1,000 metric tons of traceable artisanal cobalt, a key step in formalizing the sector in a country that supplies much... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended activities at a Chinese-operated mining site in the south of the resource-rich country after a spill, mines minister Louis Watum Kabamba said late on... 

Critical minerals company Electra Battery Materials has restarted construction of its cobalt sulphate refinery in Ontario after securing about $82-million in financing, including $48-million in... 

As global powers scramble for critical minerals, African countries are pushing for new investment to process more of their own raw materials and meet their people's demands for economic growth and... 

Canada will establish a $2-billion Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund to accelerate investment in strategic mining projects and strengthen national security supply chains, Finance Minister... 

Disagreements between governments and investors over resources are at a ten-year high, law firm DLA Piper said, driven by resource nationalism and growing competition between the US and China for... 

Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has announced 26 new investments, partnerships and measures to unlock C$6.4-billion of critical minerals projects. These initiatives are... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses South Africa's thin-incentive critical minerals strategy, according to G20Lens analysis; Glencore's cobalt strategy as the cobalt export ban lifts in...