Hudbay Minerals, copper-focused miner, and Manitoba authorities have cleared a staged restart of operations at Snow Lake after the Manitoba Wildfire Service and the Town of Snow Lake lifted a mandatory evacuation order on August 22. Hudbay said inspections found no structural damage to surface infrastructure; milling at New Britannia resumed on August 26 and...
READ MOREKorea Zinc, nonferrous smelter, and Lockheed Martin, U.S. defense contractor, have signed a memorandum of understanding covering germanium supply and broader collaboration on critical-minerals supply chains. Under the deal, Korea Zinc will supply germanium refined in jurisdictions excluding China, North Korea, Iran and Russia via an offtake arrangement, while advancing plans to build a dedicated...
READ MOREAsian Development Bank, multilateral lender, and Reko Diq Mining Company, copper-gold project JV owned by Barrick Gold (50%), Balochistan (25%) and three Pakistani state firms (25%), have agreed on a $410 million financing package for the $6.6 billion Reko Diq development, with first-phase production targeted for 2028. The package complements a $700 million facility from...
READ MOREVSMPO-Avisma, titanium producer, expects 2025 production to be “the 2021 level,” CEO Dmitry Trifonov told reporters, while majority owner Mikhail Shelkov described current volumes as a “low plateau.” The company did not disclose the 2021 figure. Separately, VSMPO marked the smelting of its millionth titanium ingot at its Sverdlovsk Region complex—a 5,200-kg, 870-mm-diameter piece produced...
READ MOREArafura Rare Earths, developer of the Nolans rare earths project in Australia’s Northern Territory, has secured about A$80 million (US$54.4 million) via a two-tranche institutional placement at A$0.19 (US$0.13) a share, issuing roughly 421.1 million new shares, and will open a A$5 million (US$3.4 million) share purchase plan (SPP) on 27 August 2025. If the...
READ MORESQM, Chilean lithium and specialty chemicals producer, reported a second-quarter net profit of $88.4 million, down 59% year on year, as realized lithium prices fell and legacy contract floors curtailed volumes. Revenue came in at $1.04 billion, broadly in line with the $1.064 billion analyst consensus, but earnings missed the $143.01 million expected by LSEG-compiled...
READ MORELifezone, a New York-listed battery metals developer, says stepped-up defence spending will lift nickel demand just as it moves its Kabanga project in Tanzania toward a final investment decision (FID). Founder and chair Keith Liddell told Mining Weekly he expects “a big demand side inflection… from the global defence industry,” citing the use of nickel-containing...
READ MOREHyundai Motor Group, automaker and EV battery developer, and Seoul National University, research partner, have advanced a solid-state battery architecture that enables copper to be used as the anode current collector in sulfide-electrolyte cells—long considered impractical due to corrosion—according to a newly published US patent application. The design layers a protective coating and carbon-based buffer...
READ MORESibanye-Stillwater, gold and PGM producer, and South Africa’s Kloof–Driefontein and Beatrix complex operator, reported a 13% year-on-year drop in South African gold production to 300,191 oz (9.3 t) for January–June 2025 as first-quarter disruptions at Kloof and Driefontein lingered into Q2, while group PGM volumes softened with US operations curtailed under low-price conditions. The company...
READ MOREThe United States, government, and Russia, government, are heading into talks in Anchorage on Aug. 15 with a controversial idea on the table: offering Moscow access to critical minerals as part of a package to halt the war in Ukraine, according to UK media reports echoed by US outlets. The suggestions include potential access to...
READ MOREAlbemarle, lithium producer, and Chile’s labor inspectorate, workplace regulator, have begun a formal review of an incident at the La Negra chemical complex near Antofagasta after a complaint that an acid-carrying pipe burst; the company’s facility is operating normally while the inquiry proceeds, according to people familiar with the site. What happened and what’s known...
READ MOREAllonnia, biotechnology developer, and Eagle Mine, US nickel producer owned by Lundin Mining, will deploy a D-Solve mobile unit at Eagle’s Michigan site in 4Q 2025 to remove magnesium and other deleterious elements from nickel concentrate, aiming to raise payable metal and cut smelter penalties in a live production environment. The on-site pilot is designed...
READ MORERusal, aluminium producer, and Guinea’s labour unions have clashed at the Friguia alumina complex as workers launched a strike and blocked the refinery’s rail link to the port of Conakry, halting alumina movements while demanding implementation of a new sectoral agreement. The action follows a complaint over working conditions and comes amid Guinea’s more muscular...
READ MOREContemporary Amperex Technology, EV battery maker, and Jiangxi regulators have paused output at the Jianxiawo lithium mine in Yichun for at least three months after a key licence expired on Aug. 9, tightening near-term supply from China’s largest lithium hub and sending Guangzhou futures up the daily limit to ¥81,000/t (~$11,260) on Aug. 11. Industry...
READ MOREPemex, Mexico’s state oil company, and LitioMx, the national lithium vehicle, have put lithium on the company’s 2025–2035 agenda, with Pemex evaluating direct lithium extraction (DLE) from brines encountered in hydrocarbon wells across five states and considering a new subsidiary, “Pemex Lithium,” to process output into carbonate or hydroxide. Chief executive Víctor Rodríguez said initial...
READ MOREUnited States and Switzerland, global gold-refining hub, have upended bullion trade after Washington reclassified one-kilogram and 100-ounce bars under a tariff-liable customs code, exposing a core format for New York delivery to duties amid a wider 39% levy on Swiss imports. Futures in New York spiked to a record as traders scrambled to assess supply...
READ MOREUnited States, government, and Cook Islands, Pacific micro-state, have begun negotiations on a programme to chart the island nation’s 1.96 million-km² exclusive economic zone, aiming to quantify polymetallic nodules that could feed battery supply chains and lessen China’s grip on critical minerals. The talks come five months after Avarua signed a five-year cooperation agreement with...
READ MOREValterra Platinum, South African PGM producer with Zimbabwe’s Unki mine, Impala’s Zimplats, and Mimosa, the Impala–Sibanye Stillwater joint venture, have been hit by unpaid local-currency proceeds under Zimbabwe’s foreign-exchange retention regime, after exporters shipped $690 million of PGM mattes and concentrates in the first half but have not received the 30% local-currency portion since January,...
READ MORESylvania, PGM tailings retreatment operator, has reported a record 81,002 ounces of 4E (platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold) for the year to June 30, supported by fourth-quarter output of 21,114 oz and stronger pricing. Quarterly net revenue rose 15% to $30.3 million and group EBITDA increased 98% to $12.9 million as plant feed and grades...
READ MORESumitomo, Japanese trading house and majority owner of Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel and cobalt operation, kept its full-year production forecast in the “mid-30,000-ton” range after reporting about 7,000 tonnes of nickel in the first quarter of the current fiscal year—down from roughly 8,000 tonnes a year earlier—as operations recovered from a precautionary pipeline inspection. The company...
READ MOREGlobal supply, industry outlook, is set to recover in 2025 as Ivanhoe’s Kipushi in the DRC, China’s Huoshaoyun and Russia’s Ozernoye scale up, even as analysts still see mined zinc contracting at a -0.5% CAGR to around 12.1 mt by 2030 from a post-rebound base. After an estimated 2.8% decline in 2024, mine production is...
READ MOREWipro Infrastructure Engineering, industrial manufacturer, and Wipro Electronic Materials, its new PCB materials arm, have announced a ₹500 crore ($57.6 million) investment to set up a copper-clad laminate (CCL) and prepreg facility in Karnataka, targeting production start in 2026 and output of more than six million sheets a year. The unit is expected to create...
READ MOREUral Mining and Metallurgical Company, Russian copper and zinc producer, and Andrey Kozitsyn, its long-time former chief, have reunited at the top: registry filings show Kozitsyn resumed the CEO role on July 3, 2025, three years after stepping down ahead of his EU designation in 2022. The leadership change follows a 2024 EU General Court...
READ MORENornickel, Russian producer of nickel and palladium, has lowered its 2025 output guidance across all key metals after first-half production fell 2–6% year on year amid installation and calibration of domestic mining and processing equipment. First-half nickel output declined 4% to 86,850 tonnes, copper slipped 2% to 213,189 tonnes, palladium fell 5% to almost 1.4...
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