April 17, 2025

Iron ore miners in rocky start to year as tariff turmoil begins

BHP, Rio Tinto, and Vale all reported drops in quarterly shipments from the year before.

April 16, 2025

BHP warns of trade war fallout as it ramps up copper output

The world’s biggest miner produced 67.8 million tons of iron ore compared with 68.1 million tons for the same period last year.

April 16, 2025

South32 third-quarter manganese output misses estimates

The world's biggest producer of manganese ore produced 476,000 wet metric tons last quarter.

April 16, 2025

Ghana government takes control of Damang mine operated by Gold Fields

Ghana's government has rejected an application from the South African company to renew its lease.

April 16, 2025

Epiroc wins largest order in history with A$350M contract from Fortescue

Included in the order is a fleet of Epiroc blasthole drill rigs: the cable-electric Pit Viper 271 E and the battery-electric SmartROC D65 BE.

April 16, 2025

Newmont climbs to world’s No. 4 miner after $850M asset sales

The miner finalized sales of its Akyem operation in Ghana and Porcupine operation in Canada.

April 16, 2025

MinRes board rocked as two governance directors resign

Susie Corlett and Jacqueline McGill were privately very critical of the behaviour shown by outgoing managing director Chris Ellison.

April 16, 2025

Northern Star crosses last major hurdle in De Grey takeover

Shareholders of De Grey Mining voted overwhelmingly in favour of a buy-out by Australia’s largest gold producer Northern Star Resources.

April 15, 2025

Rio Tinto posts lowest Q1 iron ore shipments since 2019, tempers forecast

The company had earlier warned of total losses of 13 million metric tons of iron ore due to inclement weather.

April 15, 2025

Vale’s iron ore output falls in first quarter hurt by Brazil rains

Vale reaffirmed its forecast to produce between 325 million tons and 335 million tons of iron ore in 2025.