August 29, 2025 Column: A quiet revolution is unfolding in the mining sector Ore grades at existing copper mines are steadily falling, big new discoveries are becoming rarer and development times can stretch up to a decade.
August 27, 2025 South32 sees limited risk of Indonesia replicating nickel success in alumina South32 reported a 75% surge in full-year profit on Thursday, helped by strong performance at its alumina division and higher commodity prices.
August 26, 2025 US group calls for Washington to investigate MMG nickel deal The American Iron and Steel Institute has asked the White House to intervene in a $500M deal in Brazil.
August 26, 2025 Merz and Carney vow deeper cooperation on critical minerals The initiative includes co-funding of new projects.
August 25, 2025 US adds copper, potash, silicon in critical minerals list shake-up Silver was added to hedge against a low-probability, high-impact disruption in Mexico, with the final list to be published in about a month.
August 22, 2025 Tailings could meet much of US critical mineral demand – study Colorado School of Mines found the US could meet much of its demand for critical minerals by recovering materials currently discarded in mining waste.
August 20, 2025 EverMetal launches US-based critical metals recycling platform EverMetal has completed its first acquisition of CAI Custom Alloys LLC, a Belvidere, Illinois-based processor of high-performance superalloys.
August 18, 2025 BHP posts five-year low profit on weaker iron ore prices The world's largest listed miner reported an underlying attributable profit of $10.16 billion, missing the Visible Alpha consensus of $10.22 billion.
August 18, 2025 BHP shares near priciest valuation since 2021 on shift to miners Shares of the world’s biggest miner are trading at around 14 times forward earnings.
August 15, 2025 Indonesia president signals intention to go after illegal mines Indonesia will move to “rectify” illegal mines estimated to have caused $19 billion in state losses.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
