Mitsui said to be top bidder for First Quantum mines stake
The Japanese company is considering buying a roughly 20% interest in the Sentinel and Kansanshi mines.
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Glencore strikes deal to test copper technology at Chilean mine
Glencore’s Lomas Bayas mine agreed to begin on-site testing at scale of a leaching process developed by Ceibo.
Iron ore price at one-week high on softer dollar, pre-holiday stocking
Underpinning prices is some mills kicking off buying seaborne cargoes to meet their production needs over the week-long Chinese New Year holiday break in January.
BHP to spend up to $14 billion on Chilean copper expansion
BHP plans to invest $7.3 billion to $9.8 billion in new projects at its Escondida mine alone, starting in 2028.
Sayona, Piedmont to create lithium giant in $623m merger
Deal creates North America’s largest hard rock lithium miner, which will be based in Australia and listed on both the ASX and NASDAQ.
Centrus says Russia canceled TENEX’s licence to export low-enriched uranium to US
Russia, the world's largest supplier of enriched uranium, said last week it had imposed temporary restrictions on the fuel's export to the US.
Prony Resources plans for restart of nickel production in New Caledonia
The company, which operates the Goro mine and a plant producing battery-grade nickel, returned workers to facilities on Monday.
SRG Global wins $455m worth of contracts across Australia, New Zealand
These include a five-year contract for asset integrity services with Switzerland-based Glencore.
CBMM, Echion open world’s largest niobium anode production plant in Brazil
The facility is capable of producing 2,000 tonnes per year of XNO, equivalent to 1 GWh of lithium-ion cells.
