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.
Codelco to produce 1.344mt of copper in 2026, chairman says The company's lithium joint venture with SQM is expected to produce 250,000 tons in 2026, chairman Maximo Pacheco also said. January 12, 2026 | 07:13 am
Gecamines to buy 100,000t of copper from Tenke Fungurume mine The purchase represents 20% of TFM’s output, in line with Gecamines’ 20% shareholding. January 12, 2026 | 07:07 am
Japan launches world’s first deep-sea rare earth mining test Tokyo has begun a seabed mining trial near Minamitori Island as it seeks to cut reliance on Chinese rare earth supplies. January 12, 2026 | 05:13 am