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DRDGold appoints new CFO
31st October 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed DRDGold has advised shareholders that Riaan Davel has formally tendered his resignation and will step down as CFO and executive director of the company with effect from January 31, 2026.... 


Savannah on track for first gold pour at Georgetown plant
31st October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Savannah Goldfields said on Friday it is on track to resume gold production at its Georgetown gold processing plant in Far North Queensland, with the first gold pour scheduled for the... 


Polymetals says Endeavor mine to restart following fatal incident
Polymetals says Endeavor mine to restart following fatal incident
31st October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Polymetals Resources on Friday said it would restart operations at the Endeavor silver/zinc mine, in New South Wales, in stages following a fatal underground incident earlier this week... 


Newmont CEO Tom Palmer
Newmont CEO says Ghana's fiscal stability key as $900m gold mine opens
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Fiscal stability and fair tax and royalty systems are vital if countries want to attract mining investment, Newmont CEO Tom Palmer told Reuters as the company opened its $900-million Ahafo North... 


Tshipi manganese mine
Jupiter on track to meet full-year guidance as Tshipi mine delivers good first-quarter results
31st October 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

ASX-listed Jupiter Mines has reported that the Tshipi manganese mine, in South Africa, has delivered another reliable set of results for the quarter ended September 30, with sales of 837 577 t and... 


Hastings to negotiate offtake deal with Ucore for Yangibana project
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Australia's Hastings Technology Metals said on Friday its Yangibana joint venture project in Western Australia has agreed to negotiate for a potential offtake deal with North American rare-earths... 


Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders believes DLE can be successful.
Arkansas aims to become US lithium hub, overcoming Chinese competition, tech challenges
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Arkansas faces stiff Chinese competition, sagging market prices and technological challenges as it vies to become the hub for US lithium production, obstacles that state officials and industry... 


CATL taps outside suppliers for lithium ore as flagship mine stays closed
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

China's CATL has placed orders with external suppliers for lithium ore in November, sources say, as the battery giant seeks alternative feedstock while its flagship Jianxiawo mine is closed. A... 


Rio Tinto CEO Simon Trott
Rio Tinto CEO Trott steps up push to streamline sprawling miner
31st October 2025 By: Bloomberg

Rio Tinto Group’s new boss has told staff that plans to focus the miner’s sprawling corporate structure on its most profitable metals will be a blueprint for a “sharper, simpler” operation, though... 


Implats refinery.
Implats delivers higher sales into much improved platinum group metals pricing
31st October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGM) mining and marketing company Implats delivered higher refined and saleable production and sales volumes into improved PGM pricing in the three months to September 30.... 


Anglo American COO Ruben Fernandes
Anglo sees Chile copper mine returning to full output in 2027
31st October 2025 By: Bloomberg

Anglo American’s expects its flagship copper mine in Chile to return to normal output levels in 2027 after grappling with a period of lower quality ore that’s set to constrain production next... 


NexGen Energy raised C$400-million a so-called bought deal in the month’s largest sale of new shares
North American miners sell shares at fastest pace since 2013
31st October 2025 By: Bloomberg

Mining companies are selling shares at the fastest clip in a decade, and investors looking for exposure to sharply higher gold prices and in-demand critical minerals can’t get enough. With October... 


Vale posts net profit beat, cuts cost outlook for copper, nickel
Vale posts net profit beat, cuts cost outlook for copper, nickel
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Vale, one of the world's largest iron-ore miners, posted on Thursday a third-quarter net profit that landed above analysts' estimates, while also cutting its full-year cost projections for copper... 


Probe owns the Beaufor mine site (pictured), which within the boundaries of its flagship Novador property.
Fresnillo enters Canada with $780m offer for Probe Gold
31st October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Mexico’s Fresnillo announced on Friday it would buy Probe Gold for C$780-million in cash, giving the world’s biggest primary silver producer control of the Canadian explorer’s Novador gold project... 


ERG's Metalkol operation in the DRC
Mercuria, ERG agree $100m copper supply deal
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Mercuria Energy Trading has agreed to provide up to $100-million in prepayments to Eurasian Resources Group under a three-year supply agreement for copper, the pair said on Thursday. Prepayments... 


The Ambatovy mine
Sumitomo says Ambatovy nickel project unaffected by Madagascar political turmoil
31st October 2025 By: Reuters

Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp said on Friday that operations at its Ambatovy nickel project in Madagascar have not been affected by recent political turmoil. Plans for the project to produce... 


G20Lens analysis, Glencore, Harmony Gold make headlines
G20Lens analysis, Glencore, Harmony Gold make headlines
31st October 2025

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses South Africa's thin-incentive critical minerals strategy, according to G20Lens analysis; Glencore's cobalt strategy as the cobalt export ban lifts in... 


The Meliadine gold mine in Canada's Arctic region
Agnico Eagle launches critical minerals subsidiary, but focus remains on gold
31st October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Gold major Agnico Eagle Mines on Thursday announced the creation of a new subsidiary, Avenir Minerals, to consolidate its noncore investments in critical minerals. Avenir will be a wholly-owned... 


Magazine round up | 31 October 2025
Magazine round up | 31 October 2025
31st October 2025

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


AngloGold withdraws from Latin Metals’ Organullo option
AngloGold withdraws from Latin Metals’ Organullo option
30th October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has elected to terminate its option to earn up to an 80% interest in the Organullo gold project, in Argentina, TSX-V-listed Latin Metals reported on Thursday.... 


Sylvania CEO Jaco Prinsloo
Higher output, prices give Sylvania's Ebitda a boost
30th October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Aim-listed Sylvania Platinum posted a 71% quarter-on-quarter increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) to $22-million for the quarter ended September 30 –... 


Mineral Resources hits 35Mtpa at Onslow Iron
Mineral Resources hits 35Mtpa at Onslow Iron
30th October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

ASX-listed Mineral Resources (MinRes) reported on Thursday that the Onslow Iron project in Western Australia had reached nameplate capacity of 35-million tonnes a year. The company shipped... 


WGC senior markets analyst Louise Street
Gold demand rises to new high in tandem with price – WGC
30th October 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

According to the World Gold Council’s (WGC’s) ‘Gold Demands Trends’ report for the third quarter of this year, total gold demand, including over-the-counter (OTC), grew 3% year-on-year to 1 313 t,... 


Aerial view of the Platreef Mine site, with Phase 1 concentrator in the foreground and shafts #1, #2 and #3, and associated surface infrastructure in the background.
Ivanhoe's third-quarter profit falls on lower Kamoa-Kakula sales volumes; Platreef reaches a milestone
30th October 2025 By: Chanel de Bruyn

Base and precious metals miner Ivanhoe Mines recorded a profit of $31-million for the quarter ended September 30, compared with profit of $108-million reported for the third quarter of 2024, as a... 


Agnico Eagle CEO Ammar Al-Joudi
Agnico Eagle posts record profit on stronger gold prices, reaffirms 2025 guidance
30th October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Canadian major Agnico Eagle Mines on Wednesday reported record quarterly profit and free cash flow, buoyed by higher gold prices and solid production across its operations, and reaffirmed its 2025... 


Copper Quest to acquire 100% of Kitimat project in BC
30th October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

CSE-listed Copper Quest Exploration said on Wednesday it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Kitimat copper/gold Project in British Columbia, about 10 km northwest... 


The Bakubung mine
Wesizwe progressing infrastructure key to Bakubung's ramp-up
30th October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum, which is developing the Bakubung mine in South Africa's North West province, says it continues to make progress in advancing key underground infrastructure needed for... 


Island Gold
Alamos cuts 2025 guidance after mill downtime, seismic event
30th October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Toronto- and New York-listed Alamos Gold has reported record quarterly free cash flow for the third quarter, driven by higher production and margins, but trimmed its 2025 production guidance by 6%... 


China lifts partial ban on iron-ore buys from Australia's Hancock, sources say
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

China's state buyer has allowed its steel mills to resume buying a type of iron-ore from Australia's Hancock Prospecting after barring such sales during a year-plus negotiation dispute, three... 


CEO Amanda Lacaze
Lynas Rare Earths says demand is strong as revenue jumps
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

First-quarter revenue at Australia's Lynas Rare Earths rose by 66% from a year earlier, the company said on Thursday, but missed market expectations, though it flagged strong demand from existing... 


The Letšeng diamond mine
Gem flags lower third-quarter output on the back of cost reduction measures
30th October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

London-listed Gem Diamonds, which operates the Letšeng mine, in Lesotho, reports that decisive measures to conserve cash have been completed, with the anticipated $1.5-million in monthly saving... 


ENAMI wins environmental permit for new $1.7bn copper smelter
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

Chile's State-run mining company ENAMI said on Wednesday it received an environmental permit for a new $1.7-billion copper smelter, as part of the modernisation of its Hernan Videla Lira smelting... 


Copper breakout above $11 000 to be short-lived, Goldman Sachs says
Copper breakout above $11 000 to be short-lived, Goldman Sachs says
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

Current copper market fundamentals justify a price consolidation towards the top end of their $10 000 to $11 000 per metric ton forecast range, Goldman Sachs said on Thursday, while adding that any... 


Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt
Mining and energy sectors urge fine-tuning of Australia’s environmental reforms
30th October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia’s mining and clean energy industries have given a mixed reception to the federal government’s proposed overhaul of national environmental laws, with both sectors calling for practical... 


Drill cores
Mali revokes over 90 mining exploration permits for noncompliance
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

Mali has revoked more than 90 mining exploration permits, including those held by subsidiaries of international mining companies, according to an official decree seen by Reuters. Companies affected... 


US President Donald Trump met with China's Xi Jingping in South Korea on Thursday.
US gets rare earth reprieve from China, but not rollback
30th October 2025 By: Reuters

BEIJING - China has agreed to delay the introduction of its latest round of rare earth export controls as part of a deal agreed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, but earlier... 


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