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In a Zoom video interview with Creamer Media’s Engineering News & Mining Weekly, Plug Power President and CEO Andy Marsh on Wednesday pointed out that platinum-based proton exchange membrane (PEM)...
Aim-listed Strategic Minerals recorded 38% year-on-year growth in sales volumes from the Cobre magnetite mine, in New Mexico, during the quarter ended March 31. The 17 162 t of magnetite sold in...
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Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah held talks with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev seeking to boost cooperation on nuclear energy in Africa’s biggest uranium producer....
If South Africa wants to reclaim its position in the global mining industry, half-measures just won’t cut it. The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) needs to go beyond admitting...
The world's biggest listed miner BHP Group considered spinning off its Australian iron-ore and coal divisions as part of a medium-term growth strategy, three sources with knowledge of the matter...
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Aim- and TSX-V-listed Cornish Metals has bought about 4.5 acres of land adjacent to its South Crofty tin project, in Conwall, in the UK, from the Cornwall Council, taking the total land area of the...
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US President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely...
Gold steadied as the market took a break from a record-setting run ahead of US President Donald Trump’s implementation of sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs, which are expected to take effect later...
Finland-focused Rupert Resources has raised C$28.5-million in a private placement, with senior Canadian gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines maintaining a 14% stake in the company. The Toronto-based...
A new sun-tracking system, which could uplift the performance of South Africa’s concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, is attracting attention. CSPs, which use mirrors to convert sunlight into...
Precious metals business Heraeus Precious Metals and Freudenberg Group business unit Freudenberg e-Power Systems have announced a technology partnership in the field of catalyst-coated membranes...
High-purity iron miner Ironveld’s shares have resumed trading on the Aim, after the company published its results for the financial year ended June 30, 2024, in addition to its results for the six...
Oskar Lewnowski has a good claim to be the poster boy for private capital in mining. A former investment banker who quit the legendary London-based commodity hedge fund Red Kite to start out on...
Gold prices hit a record peak on Tuesday, as concerns that US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs might fuel inflationary pressures and impede economic growth drove safe-haven demand. Spot...
Norges Bank Investment Management will vote against a resolution for mining major Rio Tinto to review its two listings in London and Sydney, the website for Norway's sovereign wealth fund showed....
Aim- and AltX-listed Jubilee Metals has reported a 51% year-on-year increase in group revenue to $141-million in the six months ended December 31, 2024, mainly owing to higher production of chrome...
German technology group Hereaus finds in its latest precious metals appraisal that gold continues to enjoy strong support from institutional investors and price increases invoked by uncertainty on...
The Kremlin said on Monday that some Americans companies had shown interest in joint rare earth metals projects in Russia, but cautioned that such discussions were still at an early stage. Russian...
At least two miners died on Monday and four were missing in an accident in a mine in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, the regional emergency service said. The emergency service said...
NYSE- and Aim-listed gold miner Caledonia Mining Corporation has swung from a net loss of $7.9-million in 2023 to a net attributable profit of $17.9-million in 2024. The company reported...
With large projects in the mining industry often facing challenges in terms of cost and time overruns, UK-headquartered Kore Potash chairperson David Hathorn confirms that the company’s contracting...
Investors in the Pan African Resources gold mining company are not only exposed to what is an exceptionally high gold price but also to low-cost, low-risk, near-term production growth of...
Gold prices on Monday soared above $3 100/oz for the first time as concerns around US President Donald Trump's tariffs and the potential economic fallout, combined with geopolitical worries, drove...
Gold rose to a record as concerns about a widening trade war remained front of mind for investors, after President Donald Trump pushed ahead with US tariffs on all auto imports. Bullion gained as...
A robotic rig deployed at a project last year increased productivity by about 50% and consumed 75% less water than the more conventional rigs working on the same contract, Master Drilling director...
Citi Research forecast that a 25% US copper import tariff would be imposed in the second quarter of this year and lowered its three-month price outlook to $9 500 per metric ton, down from $10 000...
Johannesburg-based Sibanye Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman says the European Commission’s designation of its Keliber lithium and GalliCam projects as strategic projects under the EU’s Critical Raw...
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to calls for a moratorium on all deep...
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