April 11, 2022

Illegal gold rush is squeezing native people in Brazil’s Amazon

Lax supervision and outright support of informal mining by Brazilian authorities were behind a 46% jump in Yanomami land degradation last year, report shows.

April 11, 2022

Ford inks Argentina lithium supply deal with Lake Resources

The deal is a major bet by Ford on direct lithium extraction (DLE), a relatively new breed of technologies that filter the metal from brines.

April 11, 2022

Western Australia is world’s new top mining destination

The resource-rich state replaced Nevada as most attractive region for mining investment in 2021, says the Fraser Institute.

April 11, 2022

Sigma Lithium updates Phase 1 FS, showing $1.6bn after-tax NPV for Brazil project

The updated economics demonstrate that Phase 1 is financially robust, even as a standalone project.

April 11, 2022

Glencore regains IPO price after 11 years on commodity rally

Glencore's shares have surged 42% this year — a level the world’s biggest commodities trader had at times looked unlikely to ever regain.

April 8, 2022

Barrick pulls the trigger on Pueblo Viejo expansion

Barrick and the Dominican Republic have completed a review on where to place the Pueblo Viejo expansion project tailings storage facility.

April 8, 2022

Market value of top 50 mining companies surge $335 billion during Q1 2022

Extreme volatility on metal and mining markets continued into 2022 amid historically low stockpiles of metal on global exchanges, but for most […]

April 8, 2022

Chile sues BHP, Albemarle, Antofagasta over water use

Lawsuit singles out BHP’s Escondida copper mine, Antofagasta and Barrick’s 50-50 Zaldívar operation and Albemarle’s lithium assets. 

April 7, 2022

Analysts adjust higher metal price assumptions on Russia-Ukraine conflict

Russia's February invasion of Ukraine has triggered turmoil in commodity markets.

April 7, 2022

Brothers behind Brazil’s $18 billion meat empire are getting into mining

J&F Investimentos SA, owned by the Batista family, emerged as the surprise buyer of some of Vale SA’s operations in Brazil.