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A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and…
A group of monks piled into Harry Browne’s one-room cabin earlier this year for morning…
The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining…
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
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What’s at stake at this week’s seabed mining talks. Trump’s aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure on global negotiators to act fast to shape deep-sea mining rules. Indigenous advocates who have been fighting for their rights to be…
On a dirt road that cuts through the Rio Novo settlement in the southeast of Pará state, battered motorcycles carry small loads of organic food to sell in the city, while passing trucks loaded with minerals for export. Parauapebas, Brazil’s…
Deep-sea mining hopeful TMC the metals company (Nasdaq: TMC) took a key step forward in the US regulatory process for securing its permit to explore and extract minerals from the Pacific Ocean floor. In a press release on Monday, TMC…
California lithium and power developer Controlled Thermal Resources will go public on the Nasdaq through a $4.7 billion merger with blank-check firm Plum Acquisition Corp IV, the companies said on Monday. The listing has been CTR’s goal since at least 2021 and…
The global passenger EV market, including plug-in and conventional hybrids, fell short of 30 million units last year, but still showed robust growth of 18% year over year. In combined battery capacity deployed – a better indicator of battery materials demand…
LAS VEGAS, March 9, 2026 /CNW/ — At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026, SANY America and SANY Foundation jointly announced the launch of the SANY America Community Disaster Response Fund, a new initiative designed to accelerate disaster response and post-disaster recovery across the United States through the rapid…
Chile is entering a new political phase as a right-wing government prepares to take office, putting mining policy under renewed scrutiny in the world’s largest copper-producing country. In recent years, the local politics have also been shaped by rising concern…
The agreement includes the purchase of 8,000tpa for a period of ten years. Trafigura has entered into a binding take-or-pay offtake agreement with Smackover Lithium to secure battery-grade lithium carbonate from the South West Arkansas (SWA) project in the US.…