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China rejects EU condemnation over rare earth controls
China rejects EU condemnation over rare earth controls
11th July 2025 By: Reuters

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
How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled
11th July 2025 By: Reuters

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... 


Malawi Mines Minister Ken Zikhale Reeves Ng’oma
Malawi clinches $12-billion mining, infrastructure investments from China
11th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Malawi has concluded $12-billion worth of Chinese mining and infrastructure transactions, which are positioning the landlocked country in south-eastern Africa for the supply of critical minerals,... 


ASM CEO Rowena Smith
Heap leach option slashes Dubbo capex, speeds up rare earths delivery
11th July 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Rare earths company Australian Strategic Materials (ASM) on Friday published the scoping study for its Dubbo project in New South Wales, outlining a new first-phase development plan that uses heap... 


A photo of the Roen Formation which is being prospected in the DRC
New standard opens continental discussion
11th July 2025

As was expected, the recently initiated Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative (CMSI) has stimulated discussion across Africa’s mining fraternity, reports consulting engineering and scientific... 


MP Materials lands multibillion-dollar Pentagon deal to bolster US rare earth magnet supply
MP Materials lands multibillion-dollar Pentagon deal to bolster US rare earth magnet supply
10th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

NYSE-listed MP Materials on Thursday announced a landmark public-private partnership with the US Department of Defense (DoD), securing a multibillion-dollar package aimed at accelerating domestic... 


Liontown opens Australia’s first underground lithium mine
Liontown opens Australia’s first underground lithium mine
10th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Western Australian government has welcomed the launch of Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley lithium project, hailing it as a milestone for the nation’s critical minerals sector and the world’s... 


Top CEOs want Canada to build a strategic minerals reserve for defence
Top CEOs want Canada to build a strategic minerals reserve for defence
10th July 2025 By: Bloomberg

Canada should become a world leader in producing and processing raw materials for military equipment and defense systems, according to an influential business group. The Business Council of Canada... 


US President Donald Trump
Trump to host African leaders offering major mining ventures
9th July 2025 By: Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump is scheduled this week to meet the leaders of five African nations that will potentially offer American businesses opportunities in critical minerals and other natural... 


South Africa’s Shanghai Consul General Phuti Tsipa.
South Africa’s platinum metals, China’s green revolution merging strongly in Shanghai
9th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) and China’s green revolution have come together strongly in Shanghai at a hugely opportune time of changing global trading relationships and energy... 


GT1 holds firm on Canada lithium strategy, tightens costs amid market lull
GT1 holds firm on Canada lithium strategy, tightens costs amid market lull
9th July 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX-listed Green Technology Metals (GT1) is doubling down on its Canadian lithium strategy despite industry-wide headwinds, with MD Cameron Henry saying the company remains confident in its... 


Antimony is used in certain types of ammunition.
How US buyers of critical minerals bypass China's export ban
9th July 2025 By: Reuters

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... 


US President Donald Trump
Trump says US to impose 50% tariff on copper imports, copper futures jump
9th July 2025 By: Reuters

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... 


Nornickel's Palladium Center Head Dmitry Izotov.
South Africa’s palladium can cut South Africa’s water treatment costs, researchers show
8th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The message Nornickel's Palladium Center head Dmitry Izotov communicated strongly at South Africa’s PGM Industry Day in Johannesburg in April was that research is pointing to a long list of... 


Almonty targets Nasdaq listing
Almonty targets Nasdaq listing
8th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Tungsten producer Almonty Industries has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq Capital Market as it kicks off a public share offering in the US, aiming to boost its funding base and expand its... 


Anson expands Green River lithium project with claim pegging
7th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Anson Resources has expanded its footprint at the Green River lithium project in Utah, US, pegging an additional 100 strategic lode claims that increase the project's total area by 8.23... 


Sebastiaan Surie of CFM (left), South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa (centre) and Hive Hydrogen chairperson Thulani Gcabashe at the Green Hydrogen Summit.
Hive Hydrogen requests proposals for $5.8bn Coega Green Ammonia Project
7th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The final stage of development for the Coega Green Ammonia Project at Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape commenced today with the release of the request for proposals (RfPs) to 15 shortlisted... 


Shanghai Platinum Week under way.
China’s ‘strategic metal’ in sharp focus as Shanghai Platinum Week gets under way
7th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Shanghai Platinum Week kicked-off today in China where the silver-white transition metal with the symbol Pt and atomic number 78 has been declared strategic under the State Council’s New Energy... 


Kula Gold secures exploration licence over Malawi niobium project
4th July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Kula Gold will soon start a field programme at the Wozi niobium project, in Malawi, after having received formal approval of the grant of an exploration licence over the project tenement... 


Platinum prices at a ten-year high.
Rising platinum price unlikely to dampen demand, World Platinum points out
4th July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The rising platinum price is unlikely to dampen demand or stimulate additional supply, meaning that forecast market shortfalls are here to stay, says the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC).... 


Leo Lithium eyes acquisitions after cashing in on Goulamina exit
Leo Lithium eyes acquisitions after cashing in on Goulamina exit
3rd July 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australian lithium hopeful Leo Lithium has confirmed receipt of the final proceeds from the sale of its interest in the Goulamina lithium project, in Mali, raising $177.6-million including... 


Trigg raises A$12.5m to advance US antimony project
2nd July 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX-listed Trigg Minerals has raised A$12.5-million through a placement to institutional and professional investors, including strategic US funds, to accelerate development of its Antimony Canyon... 


BHP VP Emma Roberts and COSCO VP Ji Lin signing green shipping agreement.
BHP moves into greener shipping amid cleaner transport ventures intensifying globally
2nd July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

In fewer than three years, major Johannesburg Stock Exchange secondary-listed mining giant BHP will be shipping ore from Australia to Asia in a greener manner amid intensification of transportation... 


Ramaco says Brook rare earth project viable with $1.2bn NPV – Fluor report
Ramaco says Brook rare earth project viable with $1.2bn NPV – Fluor report
2nd July 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Nasdaq-listed Ramaco Resources said on Tuesday that a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) by Fluor had found its Brook mine project to be commercially and technologically feasible, with a... 


US, Indo-Pacific partners announce minerals initiative as Rubio hosts counterparts
US, Indo-Pacific partners announce minerals initiative as Rubio hosts counterparts
2nd July 2025 By: Reuters

The United States announced the launch of a critical minerals initiative with Australia, India and Japan on Tuesday as part of efforts to counter China, although ties between the partners have been... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
Well-endowed South Africa has huge opportunity ‘right now’ to grow mining sector
1st July 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa has a huge opportunity “right now” to grow its mining sector so that mining is able to provide prosperity for the entire nation, Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane... 


Codelco sticks to SQM lithium deadline as deal opposition mounts
Codelco sticks to SQM lithium deadline as deal opposition mounts
1st July 2025 By: Bloomberg

Chilean State mining company Codelco is on track to finalize a landmark deal with lithium supplier SQM well before the next government takes office next year, a company official said Monday. Amid... 


Liontown CFO and COO step down
30th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Battery minerals company Liontown Resources on Monday announced that CFO Jon Latto and COO Adam Smits would step down from their roles. The company appointed Ryan Hair as new COO and named Graeme... 


Cementation Africa MD Japie du Plessis interviewed by Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
Newly named Cementation Africa excited about setting business on new growth path
30th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The newly named Cementation Africa is excited about setting the rebranded business on a new growth path. As part of preparations to operate outside of the Murray & Roberts Group, the new “own... 


China's rare earths are flowing again, but not freely
30th June 2025 By: Reuters

The threat of mass shutdowns across the automotive supply chain is fading as Chinese rare earth magnets begin to flow, though automakers and suppliers say production plans still face uncertainties... 


UK trade envoy for Southern Africa Calvin Bailey, MP.
UK committed to fresh value-adding mining approach, says Southern African envoy
27th June 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The UK government is promising Africa a fresh in-Africa value-adding approach to the mining and minerals development it will be going all out to partner and promote. This promise was spelt out... 


Prime Minister Mark Carney
Canada approves law to fast-track resource projects, faces Indigenous opposition
27th June 2025 By: Reuters

Canada's Senate passed a bill to fast-track approval for natural resource and infrastructure projects on Thursday despite opposition from Indigenous and environmental groups who have threatened... 


Atlantic Strategic Minerals starts commercial production at Virginia operations
Atlantic Strategic Minerals starts commercial production at Virginia operations
27th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

US critical minerals producer Atlantic Strategic Minerals (ASM) has started commercial production at its mining and mineral processing operations in Virginia. ASM is producing ilmenite and zircon... 


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