Australia-headquartered Prairie Lithium has secured a binding offtake heads of agreement with Korean group Hydro Lithium, paving the way for the company to sell all output from its Phase 1... 

Albemarle said on Wednesday it completed the validation of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) pilot plant in Chile, allowing the company to finalise its design of a future commercial facility and... 

ASX-listed MetalsGrove Mining has successfully raised $2.7-million in an oversubscribed placement that will fund initial exploration activity on the company’s prospects in Côte d’Ivoire. The... 

ASX- and TSX-listed Westgold Resources has restarted high-grade mining at the historic Great Fingall mine in Western Australia, marking the first production from the famous gold reef in more than a... 

USA Rare Earth said on Wednesday it will bring forward commercial production at its rare earths project in Texas to late 2028 from 2030, citing faster-than-expected progress at its processing... 

Australian gold producer Perseus Mining has formally withdrawn from its bid to acquire Predictive Discovery, after the West Africa-focused gold developer determined that an improved offer from... 

Mineral sands miner Tronox has secured conditional and nonbinding expressions of support from the export credit agencies of the US and Australia for potential financing of up to $600-million to... 

Mining Weekly has just visited the laboratories that Rainbow Rare Earths has established very innovatively on the north-western fringe of Greater Johannesburg as part of its journey towards... 

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $10-million loan to support the development of Hyphen Hydrogen Energy's $10-billion green ammonia project, in Namibia. The loan, sourced from the... 

South Africa’s Critical Minerals Strategy Implementation Plan has been approved by Cabinet, which claims it will significantly contribute to economic growth and job creation. In May, Cabinet... 

Nasdaq-listed Critical Metals Corp (CRML) has executed a term sheet to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Romanian State-owned processor FPCU, paving the way for what the company says will be the... 

Indonesia has set the fines it will impose on miners operating illegally in forest areas, part of government efforts to protect forest areas from illegal clearing, the Energy and Mineral Resources... 

ASX-listed Volt Resources has executed a binding term sheet with segregated portfolio company Unbounded Opportunities Fund (UOF) to provide funding and development support for the Bunyu graphite... 

Intergovernmental organisation the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a new report exposing how gold concentrate – semi-processed gold that moves quietly... 

Perth-based explorer Astral Resources has raised A$65-million in a placement to accelerate work across its Kalgoorlie-region gold portfolio and underpin a large portion of the equity funding for... 

ASX-listed Lindian Resources has completed the final $10-million tranche under its share sale agreement to acquire the remaining 33% of Rift Valley Resource Developments. The payment increases... 

Australia's St Barbara on Wednesday announced a A$370-million investment from China's Lingbao Gold Group to advance the development of its Simberi expansion project in Papua New Guinea. Lingbao... 

Scandinavian gold producer Akobo Minerals has reported revenues of SKr22.9-million and achieved its first positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of... 

The National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA), which is set to remain an Eskom Holdings subsidiary and owner of the transmission assets, has moved to explain the role of the... 

ASX-listed St Barbara has confirmed it will move the proposed restart of the Touquoy gold operation in Nova Scotia into the permitting phase, after a new study outlined a low capital expenditure... 

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... 

Swakop Uranium, a subsidiary of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group, has signed a joint venture deal with Namibia's water utility, NamWater, to construct the country's second desalination... 

Silver extended gains after breaking above $60 an ounce for the first time on Tuesday, with traders betting on further monetary easing by the Federal Reserve and continued supply tightness. The... 

Smackover Lithium, a joint venture between Standard Lithium and Equinor, said on Tuesday it had attracted more than $1-billion in financing interest for its Arkansas lithium project. Three export... 

US lawmaker John Moolenaar, the chair of the US House of Representatives' bipartisan select committee focused on China, on Thursday raised concerns about mining group Ivanhoe Atlantic's alleged... 

Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart said on Wednesday the burden of excessive regulation on the Australian mining industry had put its global competitiveness at risk. Rinehart is executive chairman of... 

Anglo American and Teck Resources have secured overwhelming shareholder backing for their proposed merger of equals, clearing a key milestone and shifting the focus to the global regulatory... 

Embattled platinum miner Wesizwe has, once again, deferred the publication of its interim financial results for the six months ended June 30 to mid-March next year. The company says it embarked on... 

Greenland has issued a 30-year exploitation licence to London-listed GreenRoc Mining for the Amitsoq graphite deposit, marking the third such permit granted by the Arctic island's government this... 

Canadian resource company Millennial Potash Corp has initiated the environmental- and social-impact assessment (ESIA) for its Banio potash project, in Gabon. In a media release, the company says it... 

A new Eskom unbundling strategy, which uncouples the grid assets from the system operator role to be performed by a separate and yet-to-be-established transmission system operator (TSO), has been... 

London-listed base metals miner Aterian has signed a binding heads of terms with French exploration company Lithosquare for a strategic earn-in joint venture (JV) on eight copper prospective... 

A new independent socio-economic assessment shows that the fully permitted Dumont nickel project in Quebec could deliver more than C$1.1-billion a year to Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP)... 

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,... 

JSE-listed Thungela says it is confident that it will achieve about 13.7-million tonnes of export saleable production for the financial year to end December 31 – exceeding its guidance range of...