June 23, 2023 South Africa investigating deaths of 31 people in illegal mine Victims died in a ventilation shaft in Virginia mine in Welkom city.
June 23, 2023 Methane gas explosion killed 31 in disused South African mine Harmony Gold, the previous mine owner, said the incident was a criminal matter, which it handed over to police for further investigation.
June 22, 2023 NextSource begins graphite production in Madagascar Phase one of operations at Molo are being optimized to reach the mine's nameplate production capacity of 17,000 tpa of graphite concentrate.
June 21, 2023 B2Gold grows indicated ounces at Anaconda area near Fekola by 80% Total resources in the indicated category are estimated at 57.1 million tonnes grading 1.11 g/t gold, for approximately 2 million gold ounces.
June 19, 2023 Four firms shortlisted in race to buy Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines China's Zijin Mining and Norinco Group, South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater and an investment vehicle owned by ex-Glencore officials have been shortlisted in the race.
June 19, 2023 Deep-South stock soars as it gets Namibia copper licence reinstated The Haib copper deposit has an after-tax NPV (at a 7.5% discount rate) of $957 million and IRR of 29.7%.
June 19, 2023 Namibia seeks to tap resource potential after lithium ore ban The southern African nation last week banned exports of unprocessed lithium and other critical minerals.
June 18, 2023 World’s No. 2 gold miner is trying to get bigger in copper For a company with “gold” in its name, Barrick Gold Corp. has become noticeably fixated on copper.
June 18, 2023 New study quantifies violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights by extractive industries Ten universities joined forces to conduct the largest quantitative analysis to date of the violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights by extractive and industrial developments.
June 16, 2023 Critical material prices are recovering but the outlook is mixed New report says lithium, nickel sulphate and rare earth prices are set to recover sharply but graphite, magnesium and titanium markets are in for more pain.
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
