May 7, 2025

BYD and Tsingshan scrap plans for Chile lithium plants

Both companies had been selected in 2023 as strategic investors to develop value-added lithium products in Chile.

May 6, 2025

Rio Tinto’s Diavik mine wins environmental award for solar plant

The government of the Northwest Territories provided C$3.3 million in funding for the project.

May 5, 2025

Ma’aden deploys space technology to explore projects across Arabian Shield

The initiative will be delivered through the regional joint venture established by Fleet Space Technologies and Tahreez.

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.