Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the significant new platinum-linked green hydrogen advances in the UAE and US; the demand for precious metals as fiat currency alternatives; and... 

Africa’s mineral wealth has become a focal point for the clean energy transition and advanced manufacturing and coordinated action by Africa can convert the continent’s mineral wealth into GDP... 

Ferrochrome output from the Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture was 63% lower in 2025 than in 2024, Merafe Resources reported on Tuesday, January 20. Attributable production fell from 301 000 t in 2024... 

In an announcement to Mining Weekly from Brussels on Tuesday January 20, South Africa’s Simon Baloyi, the CEO of Sasol, and South Africa's Craig Miller, the CEO of Valterra Platinum, featured... 

In a major advance that enables local refining of artisanal and small-scale (ASM) gold and elevates West Africa's responsible sourcing standards to a new high, South Africa’s Rand Refinery, as... 

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

Silver is entering this year in the spotlight after prices gained almost 150% in 2025, with tight supply, rising industrial demand and investor activity underpinning sharply higher prices,... 

Coal company Liberty Coal has confirmed that about 540 employees have been transferred to Liberty Mine Services (LMS), following its appointment as the principal independent mining contractor at... 

Diversified miner BHP has lifted the capital cost estimate for Stage 1 of its Jansen potash project in Canada to $8.4-billion, citing inflationary pressures, design development and scope changes,... 

Global gold and copper producer Barrick Mining Corporation has chosen to use end-to-end mining solutions company Metso’s Concorde Cell flotation technology at its Lumwana expansion project, in... 

Intelligence and productivity platform GlobalData has revised upwards its forecasts for gold and silver prices after they surpassed the targets outlined in its previous outlook, as geopolitical... 

China, the world's largest iron-ore consumer, has received its first shipment of iron-ore from the Simandou mine in Guinea in West Africa, in which Beijing has heavily invested to increase supply... 

NYSE- and TSX-listed Barrick Mining has announced the appointment of Helen Cai as senior executive VP and CFO. Cai will become CFO on March 1, following the departure of Graham Shuttleworth, who... 

Mali's industrial gold output fell 22.9% in 2025, hurt by the lengthy suspension of Barrick Mining's operations due to a dispute over tougher mining rules, provisional figures from the West African... 

Following a comprehensive, multidisciplinary assessment of the Keliber lithium project, in Finland, multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater and its strategic partner in... 

Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed South32 is targeting the copper-dominant Arctic project in the Ambler mining district of north-western Alaska with its Canada-based 50:50 joint venture (JV)... 

Mining major BHP has lifted its 2026 copper production guidance after delivering record operating performances across its copper and iron-ore assets in the half year ended December 31, capitalising... 

Commodities are entering 2026 on a firmer footing, with gold and copper supported by strong structural drivers and the potential for recovery emerging in oil and grain markets later in the year,... 

The Democratic Republic of Congo has sent Washington a shortlist of state-owned assets - including manganese, copper-cobalt, gold and lithium projects - for US investors to consider as part of a... 

Goldman Sachs has raised its end-2026 gold price forecast to $5 400/oz from $4 900/oz earlier, noting private-sector and emerging market central banks' diversification into gold. Spot gold climbed... 

An employee at Harmony Gold Mining Company's Moab Khotsong mine, near Orkney, in the North West, died in a locomotive-related incident on January 20. An investigation into the incident is under... 

TSX-V- and JSE-listed tin miner Alphamin Resources has reported a 25% year-on-year increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation to $341-million for the year ended... 

Mining major Rio Tinto has entered into a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will see AWS become the first customer for copper produced using Rio’s Nuton bioleaching... 

US-listed Energy Fuels is adding another building block in its rare earth supply chain vertical integrations plans with the proposed acquisition of Australian Strategic Materials Limited (ASM),... 

Diversified miner Rio Tinto reported robust production results for 2025, highlighted by an 8% year-on-year increase in copper-equivalent output. The strong performance was driven by the company’s... 

Diamond producer Lucara Diamond Corp has applied to the TSX for a financial hardship exemption that would allow it to complete a deeply dilutive C$165-million private placement without shareholder... 

Geopolitical uncertainty, a slower but irreversible energy transition and continued capital discipline will define conditions in the global metals and mining sector this year, consultancy Wood... 

Major Chinese miner CMOC Group plans copper growth of up to double digits in 2026 after a price rally lifted profit, while maintaining guidance after record cobalt output. Copper output is seen at... 

South Africa’s mining production decreased by 2.7% year-on-year in November, with the largest negative contributors having been coal, iron-ore, platinum group metals (PGMs) and gold. According to... 

Spot gold surged past the psychological milestone of $4 800/oz on Wednesday for the first time, as safe-haven demand kept bullion a favored asset. 

Vale’s base metals unit wants to eventually produce one-million tons of copper by developing existing assets, exceeding an output target for 2035. Major mining firms such as Anglo American and Rio... 

 Iron-ore futures drifted lower on Friday as high prices and slim margins deterred buying in the biggest consumer China, with the Dalian iron-ore contract reporting a weekly decline for the first...