Colombia pushes Glencore on Cerrejón closure plans
Colombia is pressing Glencore (LSE: GLEN) to begin planning now for a post-coal future at its Cerrejón mine, setting up a high-stakes debate over whether one of the world’s largest…
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Sigma Lithium fights Brazil ruling after shares slide
Sigma Lithium (Nasdaq: SGML) is appealing a Brazilian court ruling tied to allegations involving waste disposal at its Grota do Cirilo lithium operation after the developments helped wipe 15% off…
Milei OKs Lithium Argentina’s $1.24B growth under RIGI
A $1.24-billion (C$1.7 billion) expansion of Lithium Argentina’s (TSX, NYSE: LAR) Cauchari-Olaroz mine is one of two mining projects approved by Buenos Aires under the country’s large investment incentives program….
Trump courts Brazil in rare earth supply push
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are forging an unlikely partnership around rare earths as Washington races to loosen China’s grip on critical…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Barrick’s $3B buyback sets stage for spinoff
Barrick Mining (TSX: ABX; NYSE: B) launched a $3-billion share buyback on Monday as the world’s third-largest gold producer seeks to attract investors ahead of a planned spinout of its…
Sponsored: AbraSilver weighs options to enhance Diablillos economics
The Northern Miner’s video anchor Devan Murugan recently caught up with AbraSilver Resource (TSX: ABRA; US-OTC: ABBRF) CEO John Miniotis for the latest update on the company’s Diablillos project in…
San Lorenzo hits all-time high on Chile gold assays
San Lorenzo Gold (TSXV: SLG) soared to a record intraday high after the Canadian explorer said new drilling on the Arco de Oro target at its primary Salvadora project in…
Buenaventura eyes 16-year boost for new Peru mine
Buenaventura (NYSE: BVN), one of Peru’s largest mining firms, is considering extending the life of its San Gabriel gold project in southern Peru by as much as 16 years. The…