United States Antimony Corp. (NYSE-A: UAMY) says it has begun exploration and bulk sampling operations on the former Stibnite Hill mine in Montana, having secured the necessary permits from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The Stibnite Hill mine is…

KATHMANDU — When the monsoon arrives in Jhumlabang village in Nepal’s far west, 35-year-old Til Kumari B.K. spends hours in the community forest harvesting mushrooms. The rest of the year, she goes there to collect bark from the allo plant (Girardinia diversifolia),…

Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the effort to phase out fossil fuels in the Amazon. The investigation, led by Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future, a network…

Revolutionary Infrastructure Development Transforms African Mining Logistics The AFC to invite bids to build key Zambian copper railway link represents a fundamental shift in how critical minerals reach global markets from the heart of Africa. This ambitious infrastructure project connects Zambia’s copper-rich…

The DLA has extended the deadline for offers several times, moving it from the original date of 29 August to 15 October. The US Department of Defense has called off a tender for cobalt procurement, underscoring the ongoing challenges Western…

Last week, China rolled out sweeping new export controls, expanding earlier measures that targeted Rare Earth Elements (REEs) to now include the technologies used in their extraction and refining – an apparent bid to kneecap nascent Western efforts to develop…

Beijing has shocked Washington with export restrictions on minerals used in most electronics China is dramatically tightening its control over the rare earth minerals crucial to making high-tech products, in what US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called “a global supply…

India’s behavior in regard to critical minerals can be best understood as strategic hedging. Beijing is signaling geoeconomic control over a chokepoint industry by deciding to resume the supply of rare-earth magnets to India on the condition of a written “no-diversion” pledge.…