February 26, 2024 Legacy uses AI to discover platinum in Australia Proponents predict AI will be indispensable to help the industry ramp up the supply of battery metals for the global energy transition to fight climate change.
February 16, 2024 Op-Ed: Sparing the land by collecting minerals at sea A challenge is that seafloor mining immediately starts off at a reputational disadvantage.
February 8, 2024 Green shoots for copper, nickel, zinc, aluminium prices Macquarie says January's full set of PMIs looks like a potential turning point for the global industrial cycle.
February 5, 2024 Seabridge updates Kerr, Iron Cap inferred resources An extra 5.9 million oz. of gold, 3.3 billion pound of copper, 55.4 million oz. of silver and 51 million lb. of molybdenum were added.
February 2, 2024 Grupo Mexico profit down 19% on sliding metal prices The firm produced 264,251 metric tons of copper over the quarter, down 2% from a year earlier.
February 1, 2024 British Columbia’s Nisga’a Nation plans Indigenous-majority owned royalty company Vega Mining will acquire from the Nisga’a the rights to five existing annual benefit payment entitlements with projects in the Golden Triangle, in exchange for common shares in Vega’s capital.
February 1, 2024 Molybdenum-ruthenium catalyst helps produce green fuel from water A new catalyst has proven to be efficient for the oxygen evolution reaction — a component of the water-splitting process that produces hydrogen for fuel cells.
January 11, 2024 Zijin Mining invests $97 million in Solaris Resources for a 15% stake Solaris intends to use the funds to advance its flagship Warintza copper project in southeast Ecuador.
January 10, 2024 Taseko says Gibraltar mine output rose 26% to 123 million lb. copper in 2023 The rise was supported by a strong fourth quarter during which 34 million lb. of copper and 369,000 lb. of molybdenum were produced.
January 8, 2024 New critical mineral mines in British Columbia could generate nearly $600 billion, study says Mansfield Consulting examined 14 potential critical mineral mines and two mine extensions, and found the long-term economic impact of operations over several decades could be nearly C$800 billion ($599bn).
EU risks slow demise of aluminum industry if carbon tax not scrapped, Constellium CEO says The upcoming tax - coupled with concerns over supply - has pushed up European premiums for physical metal to a 10-month high. December 05, 2025 | 10:47 am
