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Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, during a visit to the…
When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the…
Australian Indigenous group appeals Fortescue mining compensation ruling, seeks $1.3 billion
Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal…
As the country places more priority on the mining industry in this financial year, Namayingo…
MINING
Mining, long a part of state history, is now a $4 billion-a-year industry in Alaska,…
LATEST NEWS
Indigenous Australians win record A$150m after billionaire mined without permission
The Indigenous traditional owners of land in north-western Australia have been awarded a record A$150.1 million ($108.3m; £79.9m) payout after a court ruled one of the country’s most well-known billionaires mined their land without permission. The verdict amounts to the…
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have found a new way to change how a metal behaves electronically by controlling atomic-level interactions at the boundary where two materials meet. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that interfacial…
USA: Boom in lithium mining across Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples
USA: Boom in lithium mining across Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples The US government is breaching international human rights standards by moving ahead with a series of new lithium mines across Nevada without the Free, Prior and…
America’s heavy reliance on China for gallium and germanium – two obscure but increasingly strategic technology metals – is driving a new generation of domestic extraction technologies aimed at reshoring critical mineral supply chains. One of the latest efforts is…
Eureka Lithium Corp. (CSE: ERKA) (OTCQB: UREKF) (FSE: S58) (“Eureka” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it intends to change its name from “Eureka Lithium Corp.” to “Eureka Metals Corp.” The name change reflects the Company’s strategic evolution…
Canada’s federal government rolled out $1.5 billion in financial support this week for companies grappling with new U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper products, a move that could reshape how mining companies position themselves in North American supply chains.…
American Pacific Mining secures two contractors for large-scale drilling in Montana
Vancouver-based American Pacific Mining Corporation has secured drilling contracts with two contractors to complete Phase 1 of a combined reverse circulation and diamond core drill program on its Madison copper/gold project, Montana. The 15 000 m drill program is expected…
New form of aluminum could replace precious metals for a fraction of the cost
One of the more common uses of rare transition metals is to act as catalysts. Catalysts are basically substances that speed up chemical reactions without getting used up themselves. They show up in everything from fertilizer production to the catalytic converters…