Australia boosted its forecast for income from commodity exports for this year, but maintained its outlook for drops to continue until the end of this decade as lower global demand pushes prices... 

Exoskeletons are currently being tested for their effectiveness in barring at one of Sibanye-Stillwater’s operations as part of the Fall of Ground Action Plan (FoGAP), with positive results so far.... 

ASX-listed Tivan has reported progress in negotiations with Sumitomo towards establishing a binding joint venture (JV) for the development, financing, and operation of the Speewah fluorite project... 

Rio Tinto Group has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits, in the latest sign of the miner’s enthusiasm for the... 

JSE- and ASX-listed Orion Minerals says it is firmly on track to become a near-term base metals producer with the release of the definitive feasibility studies (DFSs) for its flagship project, the... 

ASX-listed Matsa Resources has executed a binding mining services agreement with Blue Cap Mining (BCM) for the development of the Devon Pit gold mine, in Matsa’s Lake Carey gold project in Western... 

ASX-listed Helix Resources is expanding beyond its core Australian operations with the acquisition of the White Hills copper/gold project in Arizona, marking its first foray into the US exploration... 

Aim-listed URU Metals has raised £300 000 before expenses through a placing of ten-million new ordinary shares of no nominal value each in the capital of the company at a price of 3p a share. The... 

A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in international waters controlled by a United Nations-affiliated... 

China tightened rules on building new alumina plants, in a bid to tackle overcapacity that has caused a plunge in prices in the world’s top metals market. Companies won’t be allowed to build new... 

The South African mining industry is not on its last legs, Manganese Metal Company chairperson and Zimplats and Impala Platinum nonexecutive director Bernard Swanepoel has insisted. Speaking at the... 

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... 

Canadian miner B2Gold has reaffirmed its C$1.54-billion construction and mine development cost estimate for the Goose project in the Nunavut region, and has revealed that it is evaluating a... 

Critical minerals exploration and development company Graphite One has expanded the mineral reserves at its Graphite Creek project in Alaska, with a new feasibility study expected to show a... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer unpacks Anglo American Platinum's belief that growing co-product revenue is helping to provide pushback against PGM price volatility; Namibia, India, China,... 

Developer Super Copper is continuing to advance its flagship Chilean project as copper prices surpass $5.20/lb, reinforcing the metal’s critical role in the global energy transition. The... 

First Quantum Minerals said on Thursday it would suspend public tours of its shuttered copper mine in Panama after the country's president said the Canadian miner should not give the impression... 

Australia's Woodside Energy said on Friday it would sell some assets in its offshore oil and gas project in Trinidad and Tobago to London-based Perenco for $206-million. The sale includes the... 

Four Indian State firms are in talks with Chilean miner SQM to acquire a 20% stake in its two lithium projects in Australia for $600-million, four sources said, in New Delhi's biggest effort to... 

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader.  

Rio Tinto paid $8.4-billion in taxes and royalties globally in 2024, slightly lower than the $8.5-billion paid the previous year, according to its latest taxes and royalties paid report. Australia... 

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has officially launched the South Gobi Underground Mass Mining Institute (SGUMMI) at its Oyu Tolgoi copper mine, in collaboration with the University of Queensland.... 

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... 

ASX-listed Core Lithium is advancing its restart study for the Finniss lithium operation, located 88 km south-west of Darwin Port, with promising results pointing to opportunities to enhance... 

Coal prices in China may extend declines from a four-year low as high inventories continue to cast a shadow over the market. Stockpiles at major transportation hubs are near record-high levels,... 

Euronext- and Frankfurt-listed Akobo Minerals reported its first revenue-generating quarter, with an income of SKr10.6-million for the fourth quarter of 2024, not including 2.3 kg gold produced in... 

London-listed mining, drilling, maintenance and geochemical analysis solutions provider Capital has reported a 53.5% year-on-year decline in basic earnings per share (EPS) to $0.089 in 2024, from... 

As disruptions to the global mineral supply chain continue to mount, Canada’s Marathon copper and palladium project is positioning itself as a critical counterweight. On Thursday, Generation Mining... 

Gold Road Resources chairperson Tim Netscher has defended the company’s decision to reject an unsolicited takeover proposal from joint venture partner Gold Fields, stating that the offer... 

NYSE- and Aim-listed gold miner Caledonia Mining has reported that it has been making good progress on the feasibility study for the Bilboes project, in Zimbabwe, with the support of DRA Projects... 

South Africa’s water infrastructure challenges are well known and documented, and it is critical that initiatives such as public-private partnerships (PPPs) and new technologies and funding models... 

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...