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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…
Senate Republicans send Trump resolution to lift mining ban near Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
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Slag from metal processing may help capture and store CO2 emissions. A new Concordia-led study…
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Peru’s large miners are getting increasingly worried lawmakers may tamper with rules around mineral rights as congress prepares to discuss a proposed law favouring small-scale operators. Peru, the world’s No. 3 copper producer and South America’s top gold exporter, grants…
Alaska revives U.S. antimony supply chain
Three Last Frontier projects poised to fill a supply gap left by China’s export ban; one is already delivering into U.S. stockpiles. With high-grade antimony being trucked from an old gold mining project near Fairbanks to United States Antimony Corporation’s…
Gold’s fresh rally to all-time highs above $3,800 continues to prove that this bull run has no equal in recent history and that the precious metal itself has become a force of nature, according to one market strategist. In an…
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) – The EU will propose cutting steel import quotas and significantly increasing tariffs on the metal from abroad, the bloc’s industry chief Stephane Sejourne told the sector on Wednesday, mirroring US moves. Brussels will unveil new measures…
American researchers perfect magnets from abundant materials that could replace Chinese rare-earth minerals. In April, China imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements, crippling American manufacturing across dozens of critical sectors. Ford temporarily shuttered production lines while European suppliers closed entire factories. In…
Is a rumored US rare earth fund coming too late to catch up with China?
As China consolidates its near-monopoly status in critical minerals and rare earth elements – essential raw materials for the production of numerous high-value items in the technology and defence sectors – Washington’s proposed US$5 billion fund to secure its access…
A copper and cobalt miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo that’s become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals between the US and China said it will stop production in November if it can’t secure an inventor.…
VANCOUVER, BC , Sept. 24, 2025 /CNW/ – Aris Mining Corporation (Aris Mining or the Company) (TSX: ARIS) (NYSE-A: ARMN) reports that all 23 workers who were underground at the time of the La Reliquia Mine shaft collapse have been…