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... 

Reko Diq is one of the world’s biggest undeveloped copper/gold deposits. It will be a multigenerational mine with a life of at least 37 years.  

The project consists of three large deposits and several smaller deposits that are planned to be developed using conventional openpit mining methods over a 17-year life-of-mine. 

The Platreef project hosts an underground deposit of thick platinum group metals, nickel, copper and gold mineralisation on the northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex, in Limpopo. 

The envisaged mining operation is expected to produce about 100 000 t/y of copper equivalent. 

The underground development at Olympic Dam will unlock up to 2.5-million tonnes a year of additional vertical capacity and support future mine expansion options. 

The project will boost Rincon’s capacity to 60 000 t/y of battery-grade lithium carbonate, including a 3 000 t starter plant and 57 000 t expansion, with a 40-year mine life. 

The plant will be the first at-scale, low-carbon fertiliser production facility in the world, producing 700 000 t/y of nitrogen fertiliser and serving farmers across the Pacific Northwest region. 

A definitive feasibility study has shown the project to be robust, even in a low pricing environment.  

Critical raw materials producer Andrada Mining plans to build a second tin processing jig at the Uis mine. 

The project entails the construction of direct shipping ore operation, with a mine life of 23 years. 

Multinational mining company BHP has reported the first stage of the project is 66% and the second stage 8%. 

Gold explorer Black Cat Syndicate announced approval to start underground mining at the Myhree deposit on April 16.  

Several geotechnical programme are under way. 

The project has been featured in the updated Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus for 2025, published by Austrade.