April 22, 2025 Silver lining spied for Africa’s gold exporters, oil importers Surging gold and the slide in oil prices are offering some African countries a rare boost.
April 7, 2025 Canada’s opposition leader says he would approve Suncor oil project, mines Pierre Poilievre has pledged to advance projects including the Rook 1 uranium mine in Saskatchewan, Springpole Lake gold mine in Ontario and Suncor’s project.
April 1, 2025 Mining’s king of private capital says governments must intervene Oskar Lewnowski has a good claim to be the poster boy for private capital in mining.
March 31, 2025 Mozambique reviews oil and gas laws to boost local benefits The government intends to increase transparency, while ensuring that natural resources are managed efficiently.
March 26, 2025 Glencore’s South African refinery invests in cleaner fuels Astron Energy will invest up to six billion rand ($328 million) to install new equipment and become compliant with South Africa's cleaner fuel specifications.
March 23, 2025 Canada scraps federal review of major infrastructure and mining projects Prime Minister Mark Carney said a leading project for the speedy permitting process would be the Cedar LNG project.
March 21, 2025 Former Newmont executive tapped to oversee mining on US energy council Created last month, the council's mandate is to boost not only US oil and gas production, but also the extraction and processing of lithium, copper and other critical minerals.
March 19, 2025 Colombia to launch May copper auction, aiming to substitute imports Colombia produces commodities including oil and coal, but lags far behind regional peers Chile and Peru in output of the red metal.
March 14, 2025 US, Vietnam firms sign deals on energy and minerals Vietnamese companies are in talks with US firms to buy American crude oil and LNG.
March 12, 2025 Drill more, mine more on public lands, US interior secretary urges Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he believes the Trump administration can unwind between 20% and 30% of the country's regulations.
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