Argentina, Bolivia and Chile hold about 43% of the world’s identified lithium resources, but differences in brine chemistry and water availability complicate efforts to turn the Lithium Triangle’s geological wealth…
Copper prices climbed Thursday as a strike by more than 700 workers at Antofagasta’s (LSE: ANTO) Centinela mine in Chile raised concerns about production disruptions that could become more serious…
Gold Mountain (ASX: GMN) is weighing the revival of a Brazilian tungsten mine that began during the Second World War after securing a 12-month exclusive right to acquire the property…
Sigma Lithium (Nasdaq, TSXV: SGML; ASX: SAU) shares rose as much as 6.7% in New York on Wednesday after a Brazilian appeals court upheld its environmental licences, clearing the company…
The World Bank Group is holding up a financing structure used by Chile’s state-owned Codelco as a model for mineral-rich countries seeking to attract long-term private capital while reducing mining’s…
Miners may one day extract fortunes from the Moon and asteroids, but governments will have to figure out how to take their cut without killing the industry before it gets…
Panama should negotiate a restart of First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) Cobre Panama mine to fund its eventual orderly closure without burdening the state, a ministerial committee has recommended to…
Australia’s Hancock Prospecting is disputing a report by the Australian Financial Review that falling shares of MP Materials (NYSE: MP) and Lynas Rare Earths (ASX: LYC) have cut the value…
The mine halt, low Chinese inventories and an approaching holiday pause had left the copper market with little room for supply disruptions.
Rainbow Rare Earths (LSE: RBW) has selected Neo Performance Materials (TSX: NEO) to help design the final separation circuit at its Phalaborwa rare earths project in South Africa, clearing the…
Rhodium prices are poised to fall as weakening autocatalyst demand pushes the market into surplus next year, though exceptionally thin inventories leave the rare metal vulnerable to sharp supply-driven rallies,…
Rio Tinto (ASX, NYSE, LSE: RIO) plans to expand its metals trading business into third-party material and derivatives as chief executive Simon Trott seeks to squeeze more value from the…
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