March 12, 2024

Liontown Resources enters $363m debt facility for lithium project ramp-up

Funds will be used for the expansion of its flagship Kathleen Valley lithium project.

March 12, 2024

Southern Cross Gold eyes Canada for dual listing

The planned listing, although the exact exchange wasn’t named, would start in this year’s third quarter to join more than 40% of the world’s public mining companies on the Canadian…

March 12, 2024

Core Lithium CEO to step down amid strategic review

Core said it is restructuring its business in response to a rapid decrease in prices of spodumene.

March 11, 2024

Alcoa to buy Australian partner Alumina in $2.2bn all-stock deal

Alumina owns about 40% of of Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals, the world’s largest producer of the metal.

March 11, 2024

Pilbara Minerals signs offtake agreement with China’s Sichuan Yahua

Pilbara to supply spodumene concentrate from the lithium miner's Pilgangoora operation in Western Australia.

March 11, 2024

Arizona Lithium inks agreement for Big Sandy project

The miner has entered into a services agreement with Navajo Transitional Energy Company for the lithium project.

March 10, 2024

Global copper smelters less active in first two months of 2024

An average of 11.5% of copper smelter capacity monitored by Earth-i was inactive during January and February.

March 8, 2024

Column: Nickel rout is energy-transition warning for West

Western governments could mimic Indonesia by granting tax holidays to critical minerals operations.

March 8, 2024

AI can potentially estimate global environmental destruction due to road development for mining

Australia-based researchers trained three machine-learning models to automatically map road features in rural, generally remote and often forested areas.

March 8, 2024

BHP becomes first miner in Chile to exceed 40% female representation

In 2016, BHP had only 17.5% female workers globally and today employs 1,509 women at Escondida mine alone.