Top 10: BHP leads heavyweights Down Under
BHP Group (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) leads Australia’s biggest listed mining and metals companies by market value, while Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE, NYSE: RIO) posted the strongest fiscal 2025 profit. BHP was worth…
Rio Tinto
Lion Copper’s Yerington now ranks among Nevada’s largest red metal deposits
An initial resource for Lion Copper & Gold’s (CSE: LEO; US-OTC: LCGMF) Bear deposit in Nevada establishes Bear as one of the state’s largest undeveloped red metal resources while the…
Saga nears first resource with titanium-vanadium hits
High-grade assays from Saga Metals’ (TSXV: SAGA; US-OTC: SAGMF) Radar titanium-vanadium-iron project in Labrador reveal continuity across wide areas of oxide mineralization and point to the potential size of the…
A metal you’ve heard of but know little about: Scandium
What’s special about scandium? The trusty sidekick has always been a key component of our most compelling and well-known stories, as even the strongest heroes sometimes rely on something…
Copper price nearing US record as premium doubles, Shanghai stockpiles drop 82%
Copper surged to its highest in more than a month on Tuesday as evidence of a tightening physical market in China piled up and traders rebuilt bets that Washington will…
Canada’s first diamond mine to shut down
Canada’s first diamond mine, Ekati in the Northwest Territories, will shut down following a Supreme Court of British Columbia ruling placing it into receivership this week. Arctic Canadian Diamond, a…
Acid test: IEA warns copper supply outlook has “worsened considerably”
Copper’s sulphuric acid market has been thrown into chaos by the Middle East conflict and Beijing’s export ban, according to the International Energy Agency, which warns the metal faces “a…
First Quantum explores Taca Taca stake sale: report
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) is exploring the sale of a minority stake in its giant Taca Taca copper project in Argentina as the world’s largest miners and strategic investors…
Codelco pushes Maricunga lithium project start to 2034
Chile’s state-owned copper giant Codelco said on Wednesday it now expects production from its Maricunga lithium project to begin in 2034 — a four-year delay for one of the country’s…
Elevate buys Marenica stake to build Erongo scale
Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8; US-OTC: ELVUF) will buy another 15% of the Marenica uranium project in Namibia, tightening control to 90% of a growing asset as it tests whether its…
Rio Tinto hands Sovereign full control of Malawi graphite project
The move strengthens Kasiya’s position as a potential non-Chinese supplier of rutile, graphite and rare earth products.
China question clouds Nunavut road-to-port plan
A Chinese state-backed miner owns the remote Izok Corridor in Nunavut, one of the richest zinc deposits in the world, and the Canadian government has provided some financing for the…