June 13, 2022 Lynas awarded $120m DOD contract to build commercial heavy rare earths facility in US The facility is expected to be located within an existing industrial area on the Gulf Coast of the state of Texas and targeted to be operational in financial year 2025.
June 13, 2022 EnergyX disqualified from Bolivian lithium race on technicality, company says Six firms are still competing to secure a partnership, none of them have exploited lithium at a commercial scale before.
June 13, 2022 Gem Diamonds unearths 245-carat stone in Lesotho It is the third diamond of over 100 carats recovered from the Letšeng mine within the past three weeks.
June 12, 2022 New working group to monitor truce between Las Bambas, Peruvian Indigenous communities The new committee will keep track of the commitments agreed upon by MMG and the Indigenous communities protesting against its Las Bambas copper mine.
June 12, 2022 Ontario developer finds massive cache of pure synthetic graphite at planned housing site King & Benton found more than it was bargaining for when it acquired the former Union Carbide synthetic graphite manufacturing facility in Welland, Ontario.
June 12, 2022 Copper more effective than silver in killing covid virus Both copper and silver release bacteria-killing ions due to corrosion but only the red metal is effective against the covid-19 virus.
June 10, 2022 Abcourt expands, diversifies Québec gold portfolio with acquisition of Pershimex The combined company would have a strategic landholding of more than 510 km2 across major gold districts in central Québec.
June 10, 2022 Stronger alloys for casting, welding closer to becoming reality New technology has allowed researchers to better understand how aluminum-copper alloys behave.
June 9, 2022 Researchers study role of tall grass in post-mining soil recovery West Virginia University researchers want to determine how Miscanthus x giganteus would behave under climate change and support pollution mitigation efforts.
June 8, 2022 Gold price may be set to rise – but so are risks for miners Gold saw a 34% surge in demand in the first quarter compared with the same period of 2021.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am
