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G Mining Ventures secures SUDAM tax incentive for Tocantinzinho
G Mining Ventures secures SUDAM tax incentive for Tocantinzinho
3rd October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Toronto-listed G Mining Ventures (GMIN) has secured a significant tax break for its Tocantinzinho (TZ) gold mine in Pará state, Brazil, after the project was approved for inclusion in the Amazon... 


Peru’s large miners fear their exploration rights are at risk
Peru’s large miners fear their exploration rights are at risk
2nd October 2025 By: Bloomberg

Peru’s large miners are getting increasingly worried lawmakers may tamper with rules around mineral rights as congress prepares to discuss a proposed law favouring small-scale operators. Peru, the... 


Collective Mining raises $100m to fund Colombian exploration push
2nd October 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Collective Mining, a Canadian explorer founded by the team that built and sold Continental Gold to Zijin Mining for about $2-billion, has raised C$100-million to accelerate drilling at its... 


Mining added 2 000 jobs quarter-on-quarter.
Mining creates 2 000 more second-quarter jobs, Minerals Council South Africa reports
2nd October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s mining industry defied the national trend in the second quarter of this year when it created more quarter-on-quarter jobs at a time when overall South African employment fell,... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Richard Stewart.
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO transition complete, ex-PIC head leading business development
1st October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The position of CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater is now officially taken up by Dr Richard Stewart, effective from Wednesday October 1, when former Public Investment Corporation (PIC) head of listed... 


Vale Base Metals CEO Shaun Usmar
Vale Base Metals boosts nickel output with Onça Puma furnace start-up
1st October 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Vale Base Metals (VBM) has started operating a second processing furnace at its Onça Puma mining complex in Brazil’s Pará state, lifting nameplate capacity to 40 000 t/y. The Furnace 2 project,... 


Grasberg mine accident tightens global copper supply estimates
Grasberg mine accident tightens global copper supply estimates
1st October 2025 By: Reuters

Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the market. Copper... 


The Los Bronces mine (left) and the Adina mine (right)
Codelco names VP to lead integration at Andina mine with Anglo American
1st October 2025 By: Reuters

The world's biggest copper miner, Chile's Codelco, has named Gonzalo Lara Skiba as vice president of integrating operations at Andina, a role in which he will spearhead a shared mine plan between... 


Glencore's Lomas Bayas mine in Chile working to control fire at waste yard
1st October 2025 By: Reuters

Glencore's Lomas Bayas copper mine in Chile is working to control a fire that broke out at a waste yard at midday on Tuesday, sending up a tall column of smoke, the company said in a statement. No... 


Castle wind farm.
Low-cost renewables will make up 30% of Sibanye-Stillwater power supply by 2027
30th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

A targeted 600 MW pipeline of solar and wind projects has been developed by platinum group metals (PGMs) and gold mining company Sibanye-Stillwater which, combined with other energy management... 


Tesoro secures A$34m for Chile gold project
30th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Tesoro Gold on Tuesday announced a capital raising of A$34-million to fund its El Zorro gold project, in Chile, through to a final investment decision. The placement comprises the... 


Gold bars
UBS forecasts gold price could reach $4 200/oz by mid-2026
30th September 2025 By: Reuters

Gold markets are now leaning toward a bull-case scenario where the price rises to $4 200/oz by mid-2026, UBS said in a note on Tuesday. The bank pointed to factors including a weakening US dollar,... 


Glencore investors question strategy as copper bonanza eludes miner
Glencore investors question strategy as copper bonanza eludes miner
30th September 2025 By: Bloomberg

Institutional investors in Glencore have grown increasingly frustrated with the commodity giant’s underperformance, with several large shareholders privately voicing their disappointment and... 


Barrick President and CEO Mark Bristow.
Bristow stepping down after elevating Barrick to great heights in fewer than seven years
29th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The president and CEO of Barrick, Dr Mark Bristow, is stepping down after elevating the New York and Toronto-listed gold and copper mining company to great heights in fewer than seven years. After... 


Lithium Argentina's Cauchari-Olaroz aims to triple production by 2029
Lithium Argentina's Cauchari-Olaroz aims to triple production by 2029
29th September 2025 By: Reuters

Lithium Argentina's Cauchari-Olaroz project in northern Argentina is aiming to produce 85 000 metric tons of the battery metal annually by around 2029, more than triple last year's output, said... 


McEwen Copper’s Los Azules secures RIGI approval for $2.7bn investment
McEwen Copper’s Los Azules secures RIGI approval for $2.7bn investment
29th September 2025 By: Mariaan Webb

Argentina has approved McEwen Copper’s Los Azules project for inclusion in the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), endorsing a $2.7-billion investment to advance one of the country’s most... 


Heraeus Business Line Hydrogen Systems head Dr Philipp Walter with Shanghai laboratory professionals Weiwen Dong and Mike Li.
Key platinum-boosting hydrogen labs will go live in China next month, Heraeus reports
26th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Key hydrogen systems laboratories will go live next month in China, where rapid growth is reported in the platinum-catalysed proton exchange membrane (PEM) green hydrogen technology that is poised... 


bp service station
Clean energy trajectory increasingly influenced by geopolitical fragmentation – bp
26th September 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Global energy company bp has added to its latest ‘Energy Outlook’ publication a section on important current issues influencing the global energy system, such as geopolitical fragmentation and the... 


The Kelvin power station
Nature loss could cut mining, power earnings by a quarter, Barclays finds
25th September 2025 By: Reuters

 Company earnings could fall by as much as 25% over five years due to nature degradation, Barclays said, as rising input costs and operational disruptions driven by policy changes and worsening... 


exploration drilling
Perseus advances resettlement, foundational construction at Nyanzaga
25th September 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

ASX- and TSX-listed Perseus Mining continues to make solid progress with building the Nyanzaga gold mine, in Tanzania. Some of the latest highlights include the Ngoma town bypass road having been... 


Goldman Sachs downgrades copper supply forecast after Grasberg mine disruption
Goldman Sachs downgrades copper supply forecast after Grasberg mine disruption
25th September 2025 By: Reuters

Goldman Sachs lowered on Thursday its global copper mine supply forecast for 2025 and 2026 following a disruption at Indonesia's Grasberg, the world's second-largest copper mine. The incident,... 


Platinum needed in pacemakers.
Medical demand for platinum forecast to reach new high this year
25th September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The demand for platinum in medical technology is on its way to reaching a 320 000 oz high point this year amid growth being at a consistent 3% compound annual growth rate since 2013 and 4% more... 


Aris Mining reports safe recovery of all workers at Colombia mine
25th September 2025 By: Reuters

Aris Mining said on Wednesday all 23 workers who were trapped underground at the La Reliquia Mine in Colombia have been safely brought to the surface. The company reported on Tuesday a collapse... 


Hudbay's Constancia operations in Peru
Hudbay Minerals temporarily shuts down Peru mill amid unrest
25th September 2025 By: Reuters

Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals said on Tuesday that its Constancia mill in Peru has been temporarily shut down and non-essential workforce has been demobilized due to riots in Lima and several... 


Aclara Resources plans $1.3bn rare earths investment
25th September 2025 By: Reuters

Miner Aclara Resources expects to spend around $1.3-billion in South America rare earth mines and US processing plants, executive vice president Jose Augusto Palma said on Tuesday. The... 


Southern Copper eyes steady production in Peru, bets big on new projects
23rd September 2025 By: Reuters

Southern Copper expects its copper production in Peru to hold steady this year as it invests $800-million in projects, its chief financial officer told Reuters. Peru is the world's third-largest... 


Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking Head of Equity Capital Markets, South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa Richard Stout
Anglo’s Valterra Platinum divestment ‘largest in history of JSE’, Standard Bank reports
23rd September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The divestment by diversified mining company Anglo American of its residual shareholding in Valterra Platinum was on Tuesday highlighted by enabler Standard Bank as “the largest equity capital... 


Chile's Corfo agency preps lithium contracts ahead of SQM-Codelco deal
Chile's Corfo agency preps lithium contracts ahead of SQM-Codelco deal
23rd September 2025 By: Reuters

Chilean economic development agency Corfo said on Monday it has submitted to the comptroller's office the terms of a modified lease agreement with lithium producer SQM through 2030, and of a new... 


Copperbelt’s initial 1 000 ha cassava project expected to show how the lot of Zambia’s farmers can be uplifted.
Copperbelt being groomed as starting point of cassava food-and-fuel thrust in Zambia
22nd September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Another big C may soon begin to emerge along Zambia’s copper-renowned Copperbelt, this time having nothing to do with the yellow metal but instead highlighting the first letter of a staple food... 


Rainbow Rare Earths CEO George Bennett.
Yet another global rare earths advance amid more smart testwork in Joburg lab
22nd September 2025 By: Martin Creamer

More smart testwork in the Johannesburg laboratory of Rainbow Rare Earths has enabled yet another forward leap for rare earth elements (REEs), at a time when REEs are in growing demand for use in... 


Uranium oxide
Commodity trader Mercuria bets on boom with foray into uranium, sources say
22nd September 2025 By: Reuters

Mercuria has become the first major commodity house to launch physical trading in uranium, joining banks Natixis and Citibank, as an expected nuclear energy boom fuels interest in the niche market,... 


ICMM co-COO Aidan Davy
ICMM confirms progress with CMSI, expects board appointments in early 2026
19th September 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Mining and metals advocacy group the ICMM is, together with three other industry partners, making progress on public consultations in its efforts to consolidate the foremost major global voluntary... 


Capstone restores full output at Mantoverde after motor failure
19th September 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Canadian miner Capstone Copper has resumed full sulphide copper production at its Mantoverde mine in Chile, following repairs to a ball mill motor that had left the site running at half capacity... 


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