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The company behind a $2 billion mining project for table salt and the mineral potash…
Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, during a visit to the…
When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the…
Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal…
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EIFO provides E$5.2M loan to advance Amitsoq and boost EU supply chain. Amid expanding Danish investment across Greenland’s mining sector, the state-owned Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) has approved a 5.2-million-euro ($5.6 million) loan for GreenRoc Strategic Materials…
The emergence of critical minerals as a new arena of geopolitical competition has coincided with a dizzying rally in U.S.-listed rare earths mining stocks. Despite paring gains in recent weeks, shares of Critical Metals have advanced 241% over the last three months, while NioCorp Developments, Energy…
The new critical minerals agreement between Japan and the US, announced on October 27, is more than yet another bilateral trade announcement; it is an acknowledgment that the clean energy transition and modern defense industries rest on fragile foundations, and that…
On October 27, President Trump embarked on a tour of Asia ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. Over the past week, the president has announced three new agreements with Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan to strengthen critical minerals cooperation and…
Stakeholders in the Brazilian mining sector have growing expectations regarding the approval of a bill that seeks to establish guidelines for the advancement of critical mineral projects in the country. The bill that creates the National Policy for Critical and Strategic Minerals…
The Brazilian Constitution bans illegal mining on Indigenous lands under any circumstances. But the high demand for minerals, especially gold, drove miners to invade Indigenous lands anyway. Since 2018, the area of gold mines in the Amazon has doubled (1,217% since 1985), while…
Canada has announced a 6.4 billion Canadian dollar ($4.6 billion) package of critical mineral projects to challenge China’s overwhelming dominance in the critical mineral supply chain. The announcement came on Friday at the close of the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ meeting…
A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by his headlamp is mercury. Here in…