April 24, 2025

US Interior Department to fast-track mining and energy projects

Under the new directive, environmental reviews that normally take up to a year will now be done in just 14 days.

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.