March 23, 2025

Canada scraps federal review of major infrastructure and mining projects

Prime Minister Mark Carney said a leading project for the speedy permitting process would be the Cedar LNG project.

March 21, 2025

Trump’s love for coal is crashing into market’s economic reality

His administration has signaled it’s eyeing emergency powers to restart shuttered plants and has launched a sweeping overhaul of US environmental mandates.

March 21, 2025

US wants revised terms on Ukraine minerals deal, FT reports

The FT reports that Washington wants to broaden the terms of the deal to include other assets, most notably a nuclear power plant that is currently under Russian control.

March 21, 2025

Former Newmont executive tapped to oversee mining on US energy council

Created last month, the council's mandate is to boost not only US oil and gas production, but also the extraction and processing of lithium, copper and other critical minerals.

March 21, 2025

Paladin Energy halts uranium mining in Namibia due to heavy rainfall

Shares of Australia's biggest pure-play uranium miner as per market value fell as much as 9%.

March 20, 2025

Trump to expand critical mineral production using wartime powers

An executive order signed Thursday taps the Defense Production Act as part of an effort to provide financing for critical minerals projects.

March 19, 2025

Colombia to launch May copper auction, aiming to substitute imports

Colombia produces commodities including oil and coal, but lags far behind regional peers Chile and Peru in output of the red metal.

March 18, 2025

Uzbekistan launches $2.6B initiative to bolster minerals sector

Earlier this month, Uzbekistan laid out plans to develop 76 projects covering 28 different elements.

March 18, 2025

New Hope seeks acquisitions as funding options improve

The company said it is hunting acquisitions given the improving investor appetite for its debt.

March 17, 2025

Ramaco Resources’ Wyoming rare earth project gets $6.1M grant

The funding will match Ramaco's future investment in building a rare earth and critical minerals pilot processing facility north of Sheridan.