Electra sizes up U.S. nickel refinery
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US First Nation holds up project in Canada
Trump reverses Minnesota mining ban
United States President Donald Trump overturned a 2023 decision by the Biden administration that had…
Mining giant polluted Quebec waters for over a decade before $100M fine. What took so long?
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…
Illegal gold mining in Ghana is causing environmental destruction and damaging development
Ghana is facing a deepening national crisis caused by illegal small‑scale gold mining, widely known…
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Sterling’s identity crisis
Silver is caught between its industrial usage and its monetary reputation, as surging demand from…
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Prismo Metals Reports Positive Results from Reconnaissance Mapping and Sampling at Silver King Project, Arizona
Results Suggestive of Productive Copper Porphyry System at Depth Vancouver, British Columbia TheNewswire – May 12th, 2026 Prismo Metals Inc. (the “Company or “Prismo”) (CSE: PRIZ,OTC:PMOMF) (OTCQB: PMOMF) is pleased to provide an update on recent reconnaissance geologic mapping and rock sampling…
Defense Metals Moves Wicheeda Into Pilot Scale-But Metallurgy Still Separates Dreams From Supply Chains
Defense Metals (DEFN.V) announced the start of a pilot flotation test program at SGS Lakefield for its Wicheeda rare earth project in British Columbia. For casual investors, this may sound like another routine mining milestone. It is not. Pilot-scale metallurgy…
Indigenous Australians win record A$150m after billionaire mined without permission
The Indigenous traditional owners of land in north-western Australia have been awarded a record A$150.1 million ($108.3m; £79.9m) payout after a court ruled one of the country’s most well-known billionaires mined their land without permission. The verdict amounts to the…
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have found a new way to change how a metal behaves electronically by controlling atomic-level interactions at the boundary where two materials meet. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that interfacial…
USA: Boom in lithium mining across Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples
USA: Boom in lithium mining across Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples The US government is breaching international human rights standards by moving ahead with a series of new lithium mines across Nevada without the Free, Prior and…
America’s heavy reliance on China for gallium and germanium – two obscure but increasingly strategic technology metals – is driving a new generation of domestic extraction technologies aimed at reshoring critical mineral supply chains. One of the latest efforts is…
Eureka Lithium Corp. (CSE: ERKA) (OTCQB: UREKF) (FSE: S58) (“Eureka” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it intends to change its name from “Eureka Lithium Corp.” to “Eureka Metals Corp.” The name change reflects the Company’s strategic evolution…
Canada’s federal government rolled out $1.5 billion in financial support this week for companies grappling with new U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper products, a move that could reshape how mining companies position themselves in North American supply chains.…