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David Mwape has spent 24 years working as a teacher in Kabwe, in central Zambia, where his students grow up in one of the planet’s most polluted cities, exposed to a neurotoxin that can permanently damage their mental development and…
American Rare Earths is pleased to announce that it has engaged Tetra Tech, a U.S. based major consulting and engineering services company, to complete an Oxides to Metals study for the Company’s heavy rare earths stream. The study will evaluate…
Fuerte Metals Corporation is pleased to announce the commencement of a 40,000 m drilling program at its Coffee Gold Project (“Coffee” or “The Project”) in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Coffee hosts 3.0 million ounces (“Moz”) of gold in open-pit heap-leach Measured…
China’s emergence as a dominant force in industrial metals is increasingly being driven not only by its access to raw materials, but by the scale and structure of its electricity system as it emerges as the world’s leading “electrostate”. A report by Rhodium…
Aluminum closed in on prices not seen since 2022 following Iranian attacks on two Middle Eastern producers over the weekend, heightening fears of a supply crisis for the industry. Futures prices on the London Metal Exchange initially jumped 5.5% on…
By unraveling iridium’s hidden chemistry at interfaces between a solid and liquid, Argonne scientists are helping strengthen the scientific basis for technologies that produce fuels and valuable chemicals and critical materials. Iridium is a key component in many electrochemical technologies…
The grains on our beaches and riverbeds might seem infinite, but they’re actually running out. For almost my entire life, and that of my 82-year-old father, a company called McCallum Brothers has been taking sand from Pākiri, the vast white…
The push for AI trial to speed up environmental approvals has gained significant momentum as Australian mining companies face mounting pressure to accelerate project development timelines while navigating increasingly complex environmental assessment frameworks. The intersection of technological advancement and regulatory modernisation presents…