April 25, 2021 Meteorites give clues of possible existence of present-day microbial life on Mars The same way microbes live in the depths of Earth’s and feed off minerals like pyrite, tiny organisms could exist in Mars subsurface.
April 24, 2021 Newmont-Barrick miner in Chile says to continue despite legal setback An environmental court ordered a new evaluation of exploration at Norte Abierto due to its impact on a neighboring indigenous community.
April 23, 2021 White House touts EVs, but not backing gasoline-powered phase-out date Biden’s plan calls for 500,000 new EV charging stations and $100 billion in new consumer rebates for electric vehicles.
April 23, 2021 FX investors see metals as a way to get in on Biden’s trillions Currency investors are already picking the winners of the infrastructure spending boom that the plan is likely to unleash.
April 23, 2021 Foran Mining wants to develop world’s first carbon-neutral copper project The miner will record emissions and purchase offsets for the carbon emitted from exploration activities over the past decade at the McIlvenna Bay deposit.
April 22, 2021 Bureaucratic delays force layoffs at Taseko’s Gibraltar copper mine in BC Almost a year has gone by since the company first informed the government of its plans to move a mine shovel from one pit to an older adjacent pit, and…
April 22, 2021 Second environmental court ruling hits BHP’s Cerro Colorado mine A Chilean court ordered BHP to cease drawing water from a riverbed near its facility and regulate nearby waste deposits following complaints from a nearby indigenous community.
April 22, 2021 Freeport beats copper estimates in relief to tight supplies “The outlook for copper has never been better,” said Freeport CEO Richard Adkerson.
April 22, 2021 Glencore chair defends pay plan for new CEO Tony Hayward defended an incentive plan for the commodity giant’s new chief executive officer, after prominent advisory firms urged investors to vote against it.
April 22, 2021 Record copper scrap flows this year won’t plug deficit Scrap typically accounts for about a third of global copper supplies at around 30 million tonnes.
AI boom set to turbocharge uranium demand in 2026 Investor surveys and asset managers point to AI-driven power demand tightening uranium supply and supporting higher prices into 2026. December 26, 2025 | 03:55 am
