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United States President Donald Trump overturned a 2023 decision by the Biden administration that had…
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…
Ghana is facing a deepening national crisis caused by illegal small‑scale gold mining, widely known…
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Vancouver-based American Pacific Mining Corporation has secured drilling contracts with two contractors to complete Phase 1 of a combined reverse circulation and diamond core drill program on its Madison copper/gold project, Montana. The 15 000 m drill program is expected…
One of the more common uses of rare transition metals is to act as catalysts. Catalysts are basically substances that speed up chemical reactions without getting used up themselves. They show up in everything from fertilizer production to the catalytic converters…
Some Yukon mining industry representatives and members of the legislature are welcoming news that the United States government will pay for a port project in southeast Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced last week that Skagway secured $38.6 million US to…
As South African mining companies navigate the complexities caused by decades of intensive extraction, which have significantly reduced the availability of the world’s richest and most accessible high-grade ore deposits, South African research and development organisation Mintek has created MinBind…
As mining operations place increasing pressure on plant throughput, equipment longevity and environmental control, transfer point design is becoming a far more strategic component of materials handling systems. According to Dewald Tintinger, Technical Director at Weba Chute Systems, poorly engineered…
Zambia’s talks with the US over a new $2 billion health aid deal stalled because the proposed agreement included data sharing that would violate citizens’ privacy rights and was conditional on first agreeing to preferential access to mineral resources, the…
Tribes navigating the U.S. lithium boom have little power to influence decisions on homelands seized from them. Governments in other countries have begun to build systems that offer stronger legal protections. In the U.S., many Native American tribes maintain deep…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has determined The Metals Company’s application for deep sea mining permits meets all requirements under federal law, marking a significant step toward potential commercial seafloor operations in the Pacific Ocean. TMC announced NOAA found the…