December 18, 2025

MEGAMINES: Top 10 most capital intensive bulk mining projects

When these stomach-churning capital outlays start to produce returns, they do so in spades and over generations.

December 15, 2025

Global potash market shrugs off US move to end Belarus sanctions

Belarusian exports still face hurdles, as European Union sanctions remain in force.

December 3, 2025

Israel publishes draft law seeking to boost state revenues from Dead Sea minerals

Proposed law redefines the concession to secure the public’s fair share while protecting nature and key environmental values.

December 1, 2025

BHP Americas head sees Jansen ‘learnings’ key to limiting costs

Jansen is crucial to BHP’s ambitions of building a significant footprint in potash – a new commodity for the mining behemoth.

November 27, 2025

Karnalyte touts 70-year potash mine in Canada

The project, 175 km east of Saskatoon, is expected to yield 2.2M tonnes of potash and 104,000 tonnes of hydromagnesite each year.

November 25, 2025

Potash political pushback: Canada counters Nutrien’s cross-border plans

Nutrien's plan, if implemented, would redirect up to half of its overseas potash exports through US ports by 2031.

November 17, 2025

On tiny Christmas Island, Google spurs renewable energy push for Indian Ocean data hub

Australia’s remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island has enough power to support a new Google data centre without depriving locals, but […]

November 6, 2025

ICL could lose Dead Sea concession in 2030 under government tender plan

ICL, which extracts mainly potash and magnesium from the concession, has held exclusive rights to minerals from the Dead Sea site for five decades.

November 6, 2025

USGS officially adds copper, silver to critical minerals list

The new list, compiled by the US Geological Survey, includes 10 additions to the previous one in 2022.

November 6, 2025

Nutrien weighs phosphate unit sale

Potential buyers could include industry rivals Mosaic, ICL Group, K+S AG or private equity investors.