National mineral resource organisation Mintek has welcomed the official release of South Africa's Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy by Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.... 

Mining services group Perenti has announced a contract extension worth about A$500-million to continue providing underground mining services at JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields’ Agnew gold mine in... 

Lloyd’s Register Foundation, the global safety charity, has launched its new Global Safety Evidence Centre, backed by a £15-million investment over ten years.   

Rare earth minerals miner Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine (SMM) has launched a new phase of its development, with the start of construction on a new on-site laboratory and a comprehensive... 

Exploration and development company Atlantic Lithium has announced the discovery of spodumene pegmatite in outcrop and float in the Agboville and Rubino exploration licences, in Côte d’Ivoire,... 

Increasing supply concentration in a handful of countries and the spread of export restrictions is raising the risk of painful disruptions to the global critical mineral markets, the International... 

Miners in Zimbabwe are urging the government to defer an export tax on lithium concentrate until plants that will refine the battery material into higher-value products in the country come online.... 

A third-party arbiter proposed a higher wage offer to South Africa’s State-owned ports and rail company and its unions in a bid to stave off a potential strike by thousands of logistics workers.... 

South African- and London-listed Tharisa expects its basic earnings per share (EPS) for the six months ended March 31 to be between $0.02 and $0.03 a share. This is a decrease of 76.6% to 84.3%... 

Emirates Global Aluminium plans to start building a $4-billion plant in Oklahoma next year as Donald Trump pushes for massive investments from oil-rich Gulf states to avoid his tariffs. The plant... 

Canada’s mining industry delivered solid growth in 2023, contributing C$117-billion, or 4% of GDP, and directly employing 430 000 people. However, the sector faces pressure from regulatory... 

A Rio Tinto Group executive has defended the future of Australia’s iron-ore hub, after mining billionaire Andrew Forrest delivered a downbeat message on its prospects unless it gets more green... 

Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft has acquired Tomtor, the country's largest rare earth metal deposit, a companies registry showed on Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin's call last year... 

A Malian court hearing on whether to put Barrick Mining's Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex under provisional administration has been postponed to June 2, the presiding judge said on Thursday. The... 

Aim-listed Ironveld CEO Kris Andersson says in an operational update that he is “pleased” with progress being made on the ground, with key development across its dense media separation (DMS) plant... 

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has approved early works and final engineering studies for a potential expansion of the Amrun bauxite mine, in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, aiming to nearly double... 

Hydrogen technology company Hydrox Holdings is progressing the development of its pioneer Divergent-Electrode-Flow-Through (DEFT) hydrogen technology, a membrane-less electrolyser, with the company... 

Energy and chemicals group Sasol has announced a dramatic 70% cut to the capital expenditure (capex) budget associated with its greenhouse-gas emission reduction roadmap to 2030, while still... 

US-based silver miner Hecla Mining on Thursday announced the appointment of Dean Gehring to its board of directors. Gehring currently serves as a board advisor at Allonnia, a bioengineering... 

Kimberley Process (KP) chair Ahmed Bin Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has revealed that more than 1.06-billion carats of combined rough and polished diamonds were traded through Dubai in... 

Global miner Rio Tinto will tackle one of the biggest technological challenges in the lithium industry as it takes the lead in Chile's first major project involving the battery metal in years,... 

London-listed miner Petra Diamonds says the third quarter of its 2025 financial year marked another period of steady operational delivery across the group, with it continuing to execute on its... 

Argentina's government on Tuesday approved a $2.5-billion lithium mining project by Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto, marking the first mining project under a new investment incentive regime. The... 

Australia-listed Anson Resources has received approval for a modified royalty structure on its lithium lease in Utah, which will reduce costs at lower prices and improve project economics for its... 

JSE-listed Tharisa has recorded a 45% year-on-year decrease in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation to $43.8-million and a 78.9% year-on-year decrease in net profit to... 

Iron-ore mining company Kumba Iron Ore will chair and host the Northern Cape Mine Managers’ Association (NCMMA) for the next year. The chairpersonship allows Kumba to lead the association’s... 

ASX-listed Kingston Resources has struck a binding agreement to divest its Misima gold project, in Papua New Guinea, to Ok Tedi Mining for $95-million. The transaction includes $50-million payable... 

The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has approved South Africa-based miner Gold Fields' A$3.7-billion acquisition of the Australian mining company Gold Road Resources. The FIRB... 

Greenland on Wednesday handed a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French mining group aiming to extract a moon-like rock that could offer a climate-friendly alternative in aluminium production.... 

Exploration and development company Star Diamond will raise up to C$4.8-million from Luxembourg-based Spirit Resources as the company seeks to advance its Fort à la Corne diamond project in... 

The Ontario government will spend nearly C$3.1-billion to encourage Indigenous participation in the mining industry, in a bid to ramp up critical minerals production across Canada’s most populous... 

ASX-listed Patriot Resources on Thursday announced the acquisition of the high-grade Sugarloaf copper deposit, in the Mumbwa district of Zambia. The project has an exploration target of between...