Chilean State-run miner Codelco is expected to produce 1.344-million metric tons of copper in 2026, up about 10 000 tons from last year, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said on Monday. Speaking to Reuters... 

BHP Group’s bold bid to buy rival Anglo American in 2024 was supposed to set it up as the clear winner in a copper boom it had long predicted. Two years later, the copper market is indeed booming.... 

ASX-listed Argosy Minerals reported on Monday that detailed engineering had been completed for a 40 MW grid connection that would underpin initial production and future expansion of its Rincon... 

Precious metals industry service provider Heraeus finds in its latest precious metals appraisal that platinum prices may soon retreat back to average levels, with the rally having become... 

Lithium prices soared in China on Monday after Beijing said it would roll back value-added tax export rebates, as investors bet the move would spur front-loaded export demand. The most-active... 

With strong demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) continuing, Bank of America Securities Global Research has raised its 2026 platinum price forecast to $2 450/oz from $1 825/oz and its 2026... 

Rio Tinto's talks to buy Glencore and create a new global industry leader could spur consolidation efforts across the copper-hungry mining sector and heap pressure on BHP, currently the world's... 

With mining major Glencore having confirmed it is in talks with fellow major miner Rio Tinto to effect a merger that could create the world’s largest mining company at a combined market value of... 

Dealmakers are set for another banner year in 2026 with a record number of deals in the pipeline, as CEOs seek out the safety of scale to weather mounting economic and geopolitical risks,... 

Goldman Sachs raised its copper price forecast for the first half of 2026 to $12 750 a metric ton from $11 525 a ton on Thursday, citing a scarcity premium amid limited inventory coverage outside... 

Glencore and Rio Tinto, said late on Thursday they were in early buyout talks that could potentially create the world's largest mining company with a combined market value of nearly $207-billion.... 

Glencore confirmed it held preliminary discussions with Rio Tinto Group on a possible combination of some of their businesses, including an all-share merger that would create the world’s biggest... 

Global investors channelled a record $89-billion into physically-backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in 2025 as the gold price set new highs and demand for safe-haven assets intensified,... 

Given the state of the world politically, economically, financially and socially, the gold bull market is expected to continue in the long run, says Jeffrey Christian of New York-based CPM Group.... 

Nasdaq-listed Critical Metals Corporation has started construction on a multi-use storage and pilot plant facility in Qaqortoq, Greenland, which is a key enabling infrastructure project for the... 

Emerging Canadian miner NextSource Materials has received the first shipment of equipment for its inaugural battery anode facility in Abu Dhabi. The equipment delivery marks a significant... 

Lundin Gold expects to produce between 475 000 oz/y and 525 000 oz/y of gold from 2026 to 2028 at its Fruta del Norte mine in Ecuador, CEO Jamie Beck told reporters on Wednesday. The projected... 

A workers' strike at Capstone Copper's Mantoverde mine in northern Chile will continue after negotiations between the company and the union failed, the union said on Wednesday. The union in a... 

Growth in the artificial intelligence and defence sectors will boost global copper demand 50% by 2040, but supplies are expected to fall short by more than 10-million metric tons annually without... 

Global platinum jewellery demand has shown notable third-quarter (Q3) resilience as consumers in key markets seek value and authenticity amid historic highs in gold prices, Platinum Guild... 

ASX-listed Meteoric Resources has reported that its flagship Caldeira rare earth project, in Brazil, has received a nonbinding and conditional letter of support from Export Finance Australia (EFA)... 

TSX- and ASX-listed Almonty Industries, a global producer of tungsten, has appointed Guillaume Wiesenbach de Lamaziere as chief development officer to spearhead a key corporate development strategy... 

TSX-V-listed Peruvian Metals’ 80%-owned Aguila Norte processing plant, in northern Peru, processed a yearly record of 36 616 t of third-party mineral during 2025, an 8% increase year-on-year.... 

Gold miner Newmont has confirmed that a bushfire remains active around the company’s Boddington operations, in Western Australia. A rampant bushfire began in mid-December, with authorities having... 

TSX-V-listed Silverco Mining has reached key operational and technical milestones at its 100%-owned Cusi silver project, in Mexico, signalling progress towards a planned restart of production.... 

Canadian miner American Pacific Mining Corporation has filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 (NI43-101) for its 100%-owned Gooseberry silver and gold project, in Nevada. The NI43-101 is a... 

TSX- and NYSE-listed Lithium Argentina says its Cauchari-Olaroz operation delivered a strong and consistent operating performance last year, achieving production at the high end of yearly guidance... 

TSX-V and Aim-listed Galantas Gold on January 6 entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 100% ownership interest in the Andacollo Oro gold project, in the Coquimbo region of central... 

Brazilian iron-ore exports grew 7.1% in 2025 compared to the previous year, reaching a record 416.4-million metric tons, data from the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services showed... 

Iron-ore futures rallied on Wednesday to their highest in multiple months, boosted by hopes of improving demand in top consumer China following Beijing's pledge of easing monetary policy this year.... 

Oil prices rose on Tuesday as the market weighed expectations of ample global supply this year against uncertainty around Venezuelan crude output after the US capture of President Nicolas Maduro.... 

Gold Reserve has spent years fighting with Nicolas Maduro’s government over two gold deposits seized by Venezuela. Now, after the US captured the country’s leader on Saturday, the tiny mining...