Across the mining industry, a notable trend has emerged where original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contractors and mine operators are... 

Savannah Resources has been awarded a nonreimbursable grant of up to about €110-million to support construction of the Barroso project. 

Surge Copper Corp has completed its 2025 multidisciplinary drilling and field programme, in a key step towards a prefeasibility study planned for the first half of this year. 

Lincoln Minerals has signed a collaboration agreement with Canada-based SCN Canada to jointly investigate the use of graphite from Lincoln's Kookaburra graphite project in small modular nuclear... 

Elevra Lithium has identified a revised, staged development pathway for the expansion of the operation. 

Early site works are under way. 

London-listed Pensana has reported that, following conclusion of the early works programmes, funded by the Angolan Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSDEA) during 2025, the main construction activities for... 

Australia-listed Elevra Lithium Limited has identified a revised, staged development pathway for the expansion of its North American Lithium (NAL) operation that is expected to bring forward... 

Lindian Resources has awarded all major nonprocess infrastructure contracts, with construction under way across multiple work packages. 

Boab Metals exercised its option to acquire 100% of the Sorby Hills silver/lead project in December 2025. 

Premier African Minerals has agreed with Canmax Technologies to extend the long stop date linked to a restated offtake and prepayment agreement for the project. 

TSX-V-listed Koryx Copper has agreed to a bought deal private placement offering of 10.21-million common shares at a price of C$2.45 a piece for aggregate gross proceeds of C$25-million to advance... 

UK-based mining and exploration company Premier African Minerals has reached an agreement with its principal shareholder Canmax Technologies to extend the long stop date related to a restated... 

Lindian Resources has completed the final $10-million payment under its share sale agreement. 

St Barbara has announced a A$370-million investment from China’s Lingbao Gold Group to advance the Simberi expansion project. 

Mining Weekly has just visited the laboratories that Rainbow Rare Earths has established very innovatively on the north-western fringe of Greater Johannesburg as part of its journey towards... 

Kodal Minerals’ maiden shipment of 28 950 t of lithium spodumene concentrate is bound for the destination port in Hainan province, in China. 

Leveraging phosphogypsum waste residue, rare earth element producer Rainbow Rare Earths’ Phalaborwa rare earths project, in Limpopo, aims to support the development of a diversified global supply... 

Process technology company Metso has reported that gold and copper producer Harmony Gold Mining Company has selected it to deliver the key equipment for its Eva copper project, in Queensland,... 

Surge Copper has moved its Berg project into full prefeasibility study design and cost work. 

Orion Minerals has said that a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore is in the final stages of technical and financial due diligence to provide Orion with between $200-million and $250-million in... 

Reko Diq will be a multigenerational mine with a life of at least 37 years. The contemplated mine plan is based on four porphyry deposits within Barrick Gold’s land package.  

The economics of South Africa’s Phalaborwa rare earths project in Limpopo province have been uplifted very materially by the 3 000%-plus surge in the European prices of yttrium, a silvery white,... 

Metso has announced the launch of a redefined OKTOP conditioner product series, designed to enhance flotation performance in minerals processing. The conditioners are located before the flotation... 

The expansion is designed to increase the overall plant capacity to a design rate of 6 500 t/d. 

Taseko’s $173-million equity financing, completed in October has been used to advance the Yellowhead copper project. 

Troilus Gold has announced a C$150-million bought deal public offering, marking a significant step in advancing the project towards a construction decision. 

South Africa’s rare earths endowment at Phalaborwa in Limpopo province is a gift that just keep on giving through the ongoing effort of Rainbow Rare Earths. In December, Mining Weekly reported that... 

A preliminary economic assessment, published in October 2025, has confirmed Toroparu as a large-scale, long-life openpit gold project with robust economics. 

The Yangibana Joint Venture has agreed to negotiate for a potential offtake deal with North American rare-earths processing company Ucore Rare Metals. 

Operations at the site continue as usual following recent press speculation concerning security developments in and around the capital of Bamako. 

Lindian Resources has confirmed that the project remains unaffected by recent comments from Malawi’s leadership regarding potential restrictions on the export of raw minerals. 

Vancouver-based Aris Mining has announced positive results from a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its 100%-owned Toroparu gold project, in Guyana, confirming the asset as a large-scale,... 

The first truckloads of lithium spodumene concentrate have left the Bougouni project. 

TSX- and ASX-listed PMET Resources has completed a feasibility study for its Shaakichiuwaanaan lithium project in Quebec’s Eeyou Istchee James Bay region, defining a maiden probable mineral reserve... 

Capstone Copper has struck a binding agreement with Orion Resource Partners, under which Orion will acquire a 25% interest in a Capstone subsidiary that owns the Santo Domingo project and the... 

Boab Metals has raised A$50-million through a two-tranche placement to professional and sophisticated investors to fund the development of the project. 

JSE-listed Copper 360 has elected Peter Scott, Beverley Bouwer and Lindiwe Montshiwagae as independent nonexecutive directors, with effect from October 15, at its AGM held on the same date. The... 

Southern African coking coal tailings that have been exposed on the surface for more than a decade could be profitably reprocessed, according to a study presented by Enprotec principal technology... 

South Africa’s era of large-scale dense media coal plants may be drawing to a close, according to DRA minerals processing consultant Mark Cresswell. Speaking at the twenty-first International Coal... 

St Barbara has received commitments for an institutional placement of new fully paid shares to raise A$58-million – before costs – through the issue of about 126.1-million shares at an issue price... 

Mining development company Amaroq’s Nalunaq gold mine, in southern Greenland, is now operational at significant capacity, with plant commissioning largely complete and production running in line...