Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies, has reaffirmed its goal of producing one-million tonnes a year of copper by the end of the decade, as part of its strategy to become a global... 

French nuclear fuels company Orano said on Wednesday that authorities in Niger have taken control of its Somair uranium mine as the military-led government steps up pressure on foreign investors in... 

Diversified mining company Rio Tinto on Wednesday announced initial mineral resources and ore reserves for its Salar del Rincon lithium brine deposits in Argentina. The initial mineral resources... 

Activist investor Palliser Capital demanded Rio Tinto scrap its primary listing in London and unify its corporate structure in Australia, saying about $50-billion in shareholder value has already... 

Portugal's government plans to launch a long-delayed tender of lithium prospecting licenses in 2025 as it seeks to make the country a top European supplier of critical metals for the green... 

A blockchain platform and a uranium trading company launched a marketplace on Tuesday to allow small investors to buy physical uranium, hoping to boost spot liquidity in the niche commodity.... 

Scandinavia-headquartered and Ethiopia-focused gold exploration and mining company Akobo Minerals produced an estimated 8 kg of gold in November. This includes 6.5 kg of gold already smelted and... 

Aim-listed Lexington Gold is “encouraged” by the significant exploration target potential identified at its Ventersburg gold project in the Free, State, South Africa, chairperson Ed Nealon says in... 

London-listed Gem Diamonds has announced a revised life-of-mine plan for its Letšeng mine, in Lesotho, as well as a two-year extension to the group’s revolving credit facilities.  The revised plan... 

Kazakhstan miner RG Gold is considering a minority stake sale to help fund the development of projects in the central Asian country, according to people familiar with the situation. RG Gold is... 

Global investor sentiment towards South Africa improved significantly in 2024, Exxaro FD Riaan Koppeschaar reported on Tuesday, December 3. In a pre-close message for the financial year ending... 

German export credit agency Euler Hermes has confirmed in a non-binding letter of interest the potential for a guarantee on a loan of up to $270-million for UK-headquartered Savannah Resources’... 

Metals and mining corporation Rio Tinto and Imperial College London have launched the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials, as part of a programme aimed at accelerating the development of new... 

London-listed Greatland Gold is set to close its acquisition of Newmont’s Telfer and Havieron assets this week, positioning the company to become a significant Australian gold and copper producer.... 

Diversified miner South32 on Tuesday announced the appointment of two new independent non-executive directors, Stephen Pearce and Mandlesilo (Mandla) Msimang, to its board. Both appointees would... 

Diversified miner Anglo American has completed the transaction to incorporate the Serpentina iron-ore resource into its Minas-Rio operation in Brazil, the company announced on Monday. The deal,... 

The Wolfsberg lithium project in Austria has taken a big step forward as ECM Lithium (ECM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Critical Metals, received confirmation from the Carinthian... 

The outlook for platinum group metals (PGM) demand has been uplifted by a series of new developments in the field of platinum-catalysed green hydrogen generation as well as concomitant fuel cell... 

London-listed Aterian has reported more positive results on the recent fieldwork conducted on its Tata copper project, in the western Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with additional copper... 

De Beers has cut diamond prices by more than 10% across the board as the world’s biggest producer abandons attempts to put a floor under the slumping market. The diamond industry has been struck... 

Zinc could see more sharp price swings as growing tightness along the metal’s supply chain leaves buyers exposed to sudden changes in availability. The material used to galvanize steel had a... 

Shares in Norwegian sea bed mining start-up Green Minerals fell by 40% on Monday after the government scrapped a first licensing round for deep-sea mining in return for support for its annual... 

Aim- and TSX-V-listed Thor Explorations has announced further positive results from the initial proof-of-concept drilling programme that targets the down-plunge potential beneath the current... 

TSX- and NYSE-listed Lithium Americas (Argentina) has announced plans to redomicile from Canada to Switzerland, a move designed to enhance the company’s growth prospects and financing flexibility.... 

Canadian exploration and development company Condor Gold has confirmed it has received two nonbinding acquisition offers, one from Calibre Mining and the other from Metals Exploration, potentially... 

A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded on Sunday in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic, by demanding the government scrap its first... 

Investment in downstream beneficiation is starting to pay dividends and to show real commercial results, says Tharisa CEO Phoevos Pouroulis. “We sold our first commercial chrome alloy to an... 

ussia has cancelled an exchange rate duty for coking coal and extended a moratorium on such a duty for thermal coal and anthracite, the government said on Friday, saying the decision was aimed at... 

A subsidiary of the sovereign wealth fund of Oman is replacing Russian sanctions-hit Alrosa in Angola's state-controlled diamond miner Catoca, an Angolan official said on Thursday. Angola has been... 

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that it is partnering with Anglo American, and in particular the latter’s Crop Nutrients business, to undertake research intended to... 

Canada's uranium miners, confident that only they can meet US demand for the element after Russian supply curbs, have accelerated output and forward contracts to supply U.S energy companies, but... 

London-listed Blencowe Resources has accepted an invitation to join the international SAFELOOP consortium, managed under the European Commission's €100-billion Horizon Europe Programme and focussed...