May 18, 2025

Manitoba fires threaten Sinomine’s Tanco lithium-cesium mine

Tanco is about 180 km northeast of Winnipeg and sits right beside a large zone where fires are burning out of control.

May 17, 2025

Gold price could exceed $4,800 by 2030: Incrementum AG

Based on a severe “tail-risk” scenario of a rare but extreme event, Liechtenstein-based gold fund Incrementum AG outlined in its new report.

May 16, 2025

GRAPHIC: Gold players keep faith despite trade truce-induced correction

The inflow into physically backed gold exchange-traded funds in April was the largest since March 2022.

May 16, 2025

Lynas becomes first producer of heavy rare earths outside China

Lynas recently commissioned a new heavy rare earths separation circuit at the Malaysia plant, with first production of dysprosium targeted in May, followed by terbium in June.

May 16, 2025

Chinese gold miner scours globe for takeover targets

Chifeng Gold has been rapidly expanding production both at home and overseas and is the nation’s largest producer that’s not state owned.

May 15, 2025

China’s glut of coal locks market in vicious cycle of decline

The optimism that’s taken hold in the wake of China’s trade truce with the US doesn’t extend to the market for power fuels.

May 15, 2025

China’s Shenghe Resources to buy Australia’s Peak Rare Earths for $97M

Peak Rare Earths is currently developing the Ngualla project in Tanzania.

May 15, 2025

Tungsten prices hit 12-year high as China tightens export controls

China supplies over 80% of the world’s tungsten.

May 15, 2025

China’s output cap to underpin aluminum despite trade wars

China's output is constrained by a government cap of 45 million tons per year, a limit introduced in 2017 to curb overcapacity.

May 14, 2025

Palladium market seen moving to balance after years of deficit, says Johnson Matthey

For palladium, robust growth in Chinese automotive recycling will boost secondary supply by 4%, it says.