Glencore is planning to wind down its Horne Smelter — Canada’s largest copper-metal producing plant — citing steep environmental upgrades and operational costs, Reuters reported on Monday. The Swiss commodities giant currently operates the Horne and the Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR), both…

In April 1998, a young geologist and his team set out from the village of Moribadou and trekked for six hours through the Guinea Highlands, a densely forested plateau that spreads across four countries in West Africa. “It was extremely…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An appeal hearing opened Monday in South Africa on whether a subsidiary of British-based mining company Anglo American PLC was responsible for lead poisoning over decades that affected around 140,000 people in Zambia. The class action by…

Backing from the Pentagon, White House, and Capitol Hill, coupled with soaring metals prices, is fueling new growth for the sector. With the price of copper, gold, and silver hitting new all-time highs, the Pentagon looking North for secure supplies…

Brazilian public health researchers have found mounting evidence in the state hosting COP30 that mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining has caused widespread neurological problems and disabilities in Indigenous children.’ Deep in the Amazon, Indigenous women say they fear getting…

The Bahrain Golden License program, which could likely be an effective model for economic growth for this Middle Eastern nation, may have been played by a Russian composer who conducts himself as both a classical pianist and a metals industry…

Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE) is acquiring Canada’s New Gold (TSX: NGD) in an all-stock deal valued at about $7 billion, creating a new North American mining heavyweight amid record gold prices and renewed investor enthusiasm for precious metals. Chicago-based Coeur, which operates…

Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on criminal networks operating across the Amazon Basin. The international police agency said…