May 15, 2025 US mining permits fast tracked? Legal insights on Trump critical minerals executive order The order to stimulate US production aims to alter the political landscape of languishing mining project permitting files.
May 15, 2025 Li-Cycle files for bankruptcy protection in Canada Li-Cycle has entered into a $10.5 million debtor-in-possession financing and a stalking horse credit bid for at least $40 million with Glencore.
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 Ucore gets additional $18.4M Pentagon funding for Louisiana rare earth plant Facility will be commissioned in stages, with production scaling up from 2,000 tonnes per annum initially.
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.
May 14, 2025 Morgan Stanley hires Goldman’s metals and mining head David Hammond will rejoin Morgan Stanley later this year as a managing director focused on metals, mining and basic materials.
May 14, 2025 Is the gold rally over? Analyst breaks down market risks Gold prices have plunged for the second time in three days — breaking below the $3,200 mark for the first time since […]
May 14, 2025 MP Materials signs rare earths deal with Saudi Arabia’s Ma’aden The US miner has signed an MoU with Saudi's state miner to develop a rare earths supply chain in the kingdom.
May 14, 2025 Scrap copper was piling up in the US. Now it can finally move A mountain of scrap metal in Salt Lake City that had been growing in recent weeks is finally set to shrink, thanks to the US-China trade truce.
Op-ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
