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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…

    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…

    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…

    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.…