January 29, 2025

Energy Fuels and Navajo Nation sign uranium ore transport agreement

The agreement resolves the five-year-long debate in southeast Utah over a pile of radioactive material parked in Estonia.

January 28, 2025

GRAPH: Mining vs AI vs Deepseek

Cheap and cheerful Chinese AI does little to unskew relative valuation of one chipmaker against the entire mining industry.

January 28, 2025

USA Rare Earth produces dysprosium oxide at Texas Round Top deposit

The company said this marks a breakthrough in domestic rare earth production.

January 28, 2025

Uranium price falls as DeepSeek disrupts tech 

Uranium, regarded as key to the development of power-intensive AI as a fuel for nuclear power, fell on Monday night.

January 28, 2025

Copper price rises in US and slips in London after Trump tariff threat

The Financial Times reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pushing for universal tariffs starting at 2.5% and rising gradually.

January 28, 2025

US buyers face higher costs if Trump pursues copper, aluminum tariffs

In a speech on Monday, Trump said he would impose tariffs on aluminum and copper.

January 27, 2025

CarbonScape signs supply deals for biographite production in US and Europe

The agreements, inked with some of the largest forestry companies in the world, follow the announcement of plans to build a demonstration facility in Kotka, Finland.

January 27, 2025

Nucor posts lower fourth-quarter results; sees steel market improving

Nucor's CEO said steel demand softened throughout 2024 but noted that market conditions were starting to improve.

January 27, 2025

GRAPH: What global copper mining’s top tier could look like

The Rio Tinto-Glencore merger appears stalled and a BHP-Anglo American tie-up is indefinitely postponed, but copper mining is already top heavy.

January 27, 2025

Activist Ancora to push US Steel to drop Nippon merger and oust CEO

Activist investor Ancora Holdings has built a stake in US Steel and wants the steelmaker to drop its merger agreement.