RANKED: The world’s top 10 biggest copper mines
The global copper market enjoyed one of its best years in 2025. The threat of United States tariffs on the industrial metal and its elevated status as a critical mineral,…
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NGEx hits 208g gold at Lunahuasi project in Argentina
NGEx Minerals (TSX: NGEX; US-OTC: NGXXF) reported ultra-high-grade gold assays from its Lunahuasi copper-gold-silver project in Argentina as the explorer continues to define one of the richest emerging systems in…
Government funding now a plus not a burden, miners say
In the West’s efforts to catch up with China’s lead in critical minerals development, more companies are warming to government financing than in previous years when governments were regarded as…
Ioneer, Lithium Americas defend Nevada projects as Amnesty flags Indigenous consent gap
Amnesty International is accusing lithium projects in Nevada of advancing without Indigenous consent, highlighting a gap between U.S. permitting law and international human-rights standards as development accelerates in the state’s…
CHART: First Quantum’s Peru project joins copper giants
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has outlined the La Granja project it holds with Rio Tinto (ASX. LSE, NYSE: RIO) in Peru as one of the copper sector’s largest undeveloped…
CIM Connect Video: Botswana bourse pitches post-diamond push
Botswana is pitching Canadian miners on its stock exchange as a way to fund copper and battery metals projects while the country tries to diversify beyond diamonds, Botswana Stock Exchange…
Codelco faces questions over 20,000-tonne output gap
Chilean state-run copper miner Codelco may have overstated its December output by about 20,000 tonnes after including material that did not qualify as finished product, according to a preliminary internal…
Elevra inks $437M financing for Quebec lithium
Australia’s Elevra Lithium (ASX: ELV; Nasdaq: ELVR) unveiled a A$441-million ($437-million) funding package to help expand its North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Quebec and advance pre-development work at the…
Fortune Bay gold assays shine in uranium country
Drilling at Fortune Bay’s (TSXV: FOR; US-OTC: FTBYF) Goldfields project in northern Saskatchewan has extended shallow historical near-surface mineralization at the Golden Pond target, just north of the Box gold…
CIM Connect Video: Quebec miners press to cut permit delays, association says
Quebec must speed permits, cut overlap between federal and provincial reviews and rebuild public trust if it wants to keep mining investment flowing, Quebec Mining Association president and CEO Emmanuelle…
Brazil probes $2.8B rare earths deal
Brazil’s antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into USA Rare Earth’s (Nasdaq: USAR) proposed acquisition of its only rare earth producer, posing a regulatory hurdle to America’s critical minerals plans…
Podcast: Thermal coal back in spotlight amid oil supply concerns, ft Bloomberg Intelligence’s Alon Olsha
This week’s episode features Alon Olsha, Senior Analyst for Metals & Mining at Bloomberg Intelligence, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli about recent developments in the thermal coal market. Olsha…