January 11, 2022

Bullish investors add $90bn to top 50 biggest mining companies

Despite the pullback in iron ore and copper prices, the MINING.COM TOP 50 ranking of the world’s most valuable miners made strong gains at the end of the year.

January 11, 2022

Galantas Gold to kick off operations at Northern Ireland mine

Company is about to pour first gold at its Omagh mine, with production set to start at the end of the current quarter.

January 11, 2022

London Metal Exchange trading resumes after five-hour outage

LME suffered the interruption after a power failure at a third-party data center.

January 10, 2022

Vulcan Energy, Frankfurt-based Nobian seek to develop lithium plant

The potential deal comes as demand for lithium hydroxide sees a surge due to shifting preferences towards electric cars.

January 10, 2022

LME’s metal trading hit lowest since 2010 despite record prices

Volumes declined for a third year, extending a slump seen in 2020 amid falling industrial output and the closure of its open-outcry pit.

January 10, 2022

France plans $1.1 billion to safeguard metals for EV batteries

New report calls for spending on “strategic metals” supply that could include investment in mines.

January 10, 2022

Mawson receives key decisions for Rajapalot gold-cobalt project in Finland

Lapland council voted 42-6 in favour of developing the deposit.

January 10, 2022

Norway’s Yara to stop buying potash from Belarus due to sanctions

Western powers accuse Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko of rigging a 2020 presidential election and have piled sanctions on his regime.

January 9, 2022

Gold catalyst helps transform methane into methanol, acetic acid

Researchers produced methanol and acetic acid by reacting methane with oxygen in the presence of a catalyst made from gold and the zeolite ZSM-5.

January 8, 2022

Energy transition is upside risk to ECB forecasts, Schnabel says

The European Central Bank’s inflation forecasts may need to be revised upward because of the continent’s attempts to cut carbon emissions.