First primary gallium has been extracted. 

Kamoa Copper expects to restart underground mining operations on the western side of the Kakula mine later this month. 

Cobalt Blue has signed a three-year deal with commodities giant Glencore to supply up to half of the feedstock required for the refinery. 

Africa-focused GoviEx Uranium has appointed Deogratias M Bukunkwe as project and commissioning metallurgist to further advance the development of the project. 

London-listed Rainbow Rare Earths has reported that after being in operation for about three months, its laboratory, in Johannesburg, is progressing well.  

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has visited the project as it progresses towards becoming a copper and zinc producer. 

Rhyolite Ridge ore reserves more than quadrupled from 60-million tonnes in 2020 to 247-million tonnes in June 2025, delivering a mine life of almost 100 years. 

Perpetua Resources has been awarded additional funding from the US Army for the project. 

Intermediate gold producer Vault Minerals plans to increase the project's processing facility capacity to six-million tonnes a year. 

A preliminary economic assessment has confirmed that the project has the potential to become a key component of Nevada-focused mining company i-80’s regional hub-and-spoke mining and processing... 

A preliminary economic assessment has proposed an operation with an initial eight-year mine life. 

Rare earths developer Pensana Rare Earths’s major institutional shareholder, M&G Investment Management, has agreed to invest £1-million in the company, alongside other strategic investors who will... 

Euro Manganese has raised C$11.2-million (A$12.3-million) through a combination of private placement and a share purchase plan, with proceeds to fund the development of the project. 

Battery metals developer NextSource Materials is pivoting its battery anode facility strategy from Mauritius to the Middle East. 

B2Gold is closing in on a key milestone, with the first gold pour expected by the end of June. 

Environmental authorisation has been issued by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. 

A feasibility study is under way. 

Vault Minerals has unveiled an update to its Leonora operating strategy, underpinned by a 33% increase in openpit ore reserves at the King of the Hills operation. 

Canyon Resources has announced a $140-million credit facility to advance the project. 

Mining crews have driven underground development into the high-grade Flatreef platinum, palladium, rhodium, nickel, gold and copper orebody for the first time, as the Platreef mine rapidly advances... 

Arizona Lithium has received approval for Phase 1. 

Australia-based mineral investment, exploration and evaluation company Cyclone Metals plans to produce strategic low-carbon direct reduction pellets from the Iron Bear project near the provincial... 

Metals and mining corporation Rio Tinto is working on a series of replacement projects at the Brockman Syncline. 

A prefeasibility study has established Wicheeda as one of the most advanced undeveloped rare earth projects in North America and Europe. 

Contractual mining company Collahuasi – comprising Anglo American, Glencore and Japan Collahuasi Resources – are investing in additional crushing capacity and flotation cells at the Collahuasi... 

The expansion will increase total copper production by more than 400%. 

Star Diamond will raise up to C$4.8-million from Luxembourg-based Spirit Resources as the company aims to advance the project. 

The expansion will increase gold production at Bomboré to between 220 000 oz/y and 250 000 oz/y. 

The project involves the development of a midstream refinery to produce battery-grade nickel sulphate for the electric vehicle industry, along with cobalt carbonate, copper cement and ammonium...