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The push for AI trial to speed up environmental approvals has gained significant momentum as Australian mining…
Seabed mining discussions among global leaders and environmental advocates continued this week in Geneva, as…
The Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), through the deputy minister of Mines, Juan Samanez…
ISA delays stall global deep-sea mineral rush Driven by the looming threat of global warming…
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Fuerte Metals Corporation is pleased to announce the commencement of a 40,000 m drilling program…
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Copper resumed losses after a brief bounce in the previous session, as global inflation and growth concerns triggered by the Middle East war weighed on the metals complex. Fighting between the US-Israeli alliance and Iran raged unabated, even as President…
Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House
Trump official disclosed millions of dollars of shares in Canadian mining company. Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175 million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor…
Underground mining safety: why accidents persist and what technologies help
From blind corners to GNSS-denied environments, underground mines operate with inherent limits on visibility and awareness. Technologies such as V2X and wearables are improving response times, but human oversight remains critical. Underground mining accidents are rarely random. They tend to…
Argentina’s mineral-rich glaciers on menu as Milei seeks to melt protections
Mining giants are watching hungrily as president targets the world-leading law keeping a tenth of planet’s ice masses safe Javier Milei was in a reflective mood earlier this month. “Why did the Creator give us the planet?” mused Argentina’s president…
David Mwape has spent 24 years working as a teacher in Kabwe, in central Zambia, where his students grow up in one of the planet’s most polluted cities, exposed to a neurotoxin that can permanently damage their mental development and…
American Rare Earths Commissions Oxide to Metal Study for Heavy Rare Earths
American Rare Earths is pleased to announce that it has engaged Tetra Tech, a U.S. based major consulting and engineering services company, to complete an Oxides to Metals study for the Company’s heavy rare earths stream. The study will evaluate…
Fuerte Metals Corporation is pleased to announce the commencement of a 40,000 m drilling program at its Coffee Gold Project (“Coffee” or “The Project”) in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Coffee hosts 3.0 million ounces (“Moz”) of gold in open-pit heap-leach Measured…
China’s emergence as a dominant force in industrial metals is increasingly being driven not only by its access to raw materials, but by the scale and structure of its electricity system as it emerges as the world’s leading “electrostate”. A report by Rhodium…