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United States President Donald Trump overturned a 2023 decision by the Biden administration that had…
A $100-million fine against a global mining giant for contaminating water in Quebec’s Côte-Nord marks…
Mining advocates say Twin Metals is expected to move forward with plans for a copper-nickel…
Ghana is facing a deepening national crisis caused by illegal small‑scale gold mining, widely known…
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Gold prices are not seeing any safe-haven bid as a result of the latest round of conflict in the Middle East, while several key metrics show investor interest in silver is waning, according to precious metals analysts at Heraeus. In…
Even as the International Monetary Fund warns of a global demand slowdown for critical minerals due to geopolitical shocks in the Middle East, the Democratic Republic of Congo is projecting confidence. For a country so deeply embedded in global commodity…
A stark divide between record corporate profits and plummeting consumer sentiment is not an economic paradox, but the predictable outcome of decades of monetary expansion, according to Austrian School economist Dr. Mark Thornton. Speaking on Kitco News, the senior fellow…
Electric car batteries. iPhones. Wiring for electricity-intensive data centers. Ammunition for U.S. military campaigns. Minerals like cobalt, copper, gold and antimony are key ingredients for products like these, for which demand is ever-growing. And Idaho is feeling the effects. The…
A proposal to ban new mining on New Zealand’s public conservation land has been drawn from Parliament’s ballot, putting one of the country’s most emotional land-use debates back in the spotlight. At the center of the fight is the question…
BlackRock would back consolidation among large miners because it would open the sector to generalist investors at a scale that would make it easier to bring on large and complex projects needed for new supply, a portfolio manager said on…
The U.S. agency responsible for overseeing deep-sea mining in federal waters is preparing to auction off seabed blocks within months — a step that could kick-start commercial-scale deep-sea mining and make the U.S. one of the first countries to allow…
Environmental questions plague deep-sea mining ambitions, but US bodies say the sector needs an adaptive management approach. Despite being an industry that does not yet exist at commercial scale, the deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor is…