July 23, 2025 Lab-grown gems put squeeze on diamond mining industry Cheap man-made diamonds are making life harder for miners, flooding the market with gems nearly indistinguishable from natural ones.
July 22, 2025 Vale’s iron ore output up 4% with record Q2 at key mine The company expects to produce between 325 million and 335 million tons of iron ore this year.
July 22, 2025 Aclara seeks state funding for US-Brazil plans Aclara wants to begin tapping ionic clay deposits in Chile and Brazil by 2028.
July 22, 2025 Copper-laden ships race to reach US ahead of Trump’s 50% tariffs The shipments represent the final scramble by merchants to cash in on a lucrative arbitrage trade that has upended the global copper market.
July 21, 2025 US rare earth stock cracks top 50 mining companies for the first time Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, up $200 billion year to date.
July 21, 2025 Brazilian miners warned of potential $1 billion in tariff pain Brazilian miners rely on US manufacturers for heavy equipment such as excavators and the mammoth dump trucks that can haul 100-ton loads.
July 17, 2025 Spain’s Zelestra aims to power Peru mines with $1 billion renewables investment Zelestra on Thursday inaugurated its $177 million San Martin solar park in the Arequipa region, the largest solar plant in Peru.
July 17, 2025 BHP, Lundin JV extends useful life of Argentina copper mine Their Vicuña joint venture said it was extending the useful life of its Josemaria copper, gold and silver project in Argentina by six years.
July 17, 2025 SolGold to start mining copper from Cascabel in early 2028 The Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador will begin production three to four years ahead of its original schedule.
July 17, 2025 Argentina mining exports to top $5B in 2025 despite lithium struggles, industry body says Argentine President Javier Milei's libertarian government is seeking to boost the country's mining sector.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
