October 16, 2025 Critical mineral firms boost Washington lobbying as US expands investments At least a dozen companies — including lithium, copper, rare earths, and geothermal firms — have signed with major Washington lobbying firms since January.
October 16, 2025 Lithium CEO pledges to forge ahead on project without US grant American Battery Technology lost more than one-third of its market value on Thursday after disclosing the termination of a government grant.
October 16, 2025 Brazil eyes financial guarantees, tax breaks for strategic minerals A meeting is scheduled to vote on a resolution creating a working group tasked with analyzing and proposing public policies.
October 16, 2025 Canada signals approval of US gov’t stakes in mining firms The US is increasingly taking stakes in publicly traded companies, including Canadian-based miners Trilogy Metals and Lithium Americas.
October 15, 2025 Column: China can only fire the big gun of refined metals restrictions once The ultimate risk for China is that in cutting off Western buyers from refined metals it would risk eventually destroying its own industry.
October 15, 2025 Top 50 mining companies surge to new record near $2 trillion valuation The value of the world’s 50 biggest miners surged by more than $450B in a single quarter after a broad-based rally sparked by rampant gold and copper prices.
October 13, 2025 JPMorgan targets critical minerals with $1.5 trillion security initiative Jamie Dimon: “It has become painfully clear that the United States has allowed itself to become too reliant on unreliable sources of critical minerals."
October 13, 2025 Value of Argentina’s mining exports up about 33% in first nine months of 2025 The figures mark a historic record for foreign sales from the national mining industry for the first nine months of a year.
October 13, 2025 Zangge’s lithium unit resumes production after 87-day halt The Chinese miner's subsidiary had aimed to produce and sell 11,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate in 2025.
October 13, 2025 Vulcan Energy inks agreement to supply Glencore with lithium The company will supply Glencore with between 36,000 tonnes and 44,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide monohydrate over an initial eight-year period.
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
