May 5, 2025 CIA’s venture capital arm invests in Colorado-based critical minerals startup Company said its technology offers a low-impact way to extract high-purity critical minerals from unconventional and previously uneconomic sources.
May 5, 2025 CIM launches Innovation and Technology Society Initiative aims to accelerate the development and adoption of solutions to the mining industry’s most pressing challenges.
May 5, 2025 Exploding neutron stars may have created gold, new study suggests According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, it is explosions of highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, that caused gold and other heavy metals to form in…
May 2, 2025 Agnico Eagle podcast spotlights Nunavut’s people, environment and mining The podcast aims to show listeners the realities about the Territory and Canada’s North.
May 1, 2025 Pentagon’s AI metals program goes private in bid to boost Western supply deals Open Price Exploration for National Security AI metals program is an attempt to counter China's sweeping control of the critical minerals sector.
April 30, 2025 Ace Green, OM Commodities sign lead scrap supply deal for Texas recycling facility With more than 1.5 million metric tons of lead battery scrap available for recycling in the US alone, there is a critical gap in smelter capacity to keep valuable material…
April 30, 2025 Sumitomo, Builders Vision back US rare earths startup Phoenix Tailings The company will use the funding as part of its construction of a $13 million facility in Exeter, New Hampshire.
April 30, 2025 Weir completes acquisition of Micromine for $840M The Scottish engineering firm agreed to buy Micromine in late February, in an effort to enhance the group's digital mining solutions and support its growth strategy.
April 30, 2025 China makes thorium-based nuclear energy breakthrough using past US work According to Chinese state media, a group of scientists recently managed to refuel a working thorium molten salt reactor without causing a shutdown — a feat never achieved before.
April 30, 2025 Caterpillar sees lower 2025 sales should Trump tariffs stay The guidance, in line with previous expectations, came as the heavy-equipment maker posted first-quarter earnings that fell short of analysts’ estimates.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
