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Brazilian rare earth and lithium processing facility surrounded by tropical vegetation and red laterite soil. Brazil has enacted a critical minerals law that gives the federal…
European critical raw materials processing and logistics facility. The European Union plans to create a corporation to aggregate demand, purchase and stockpile critical raw materials used…
Copper heap-leach pads, solution ponds and processing infrastructure in the Arizona desert. Freeport-McMoRan is weighing a roughly $4.5 billion expansion of its Bagdad copper mine in…
Indonesia’s laterite nickel mines sit at the center of the 2026 supply debate. Indonesia has cut its 2026 nickel ore quota to 260–270 million wet metric…
Stacked silver bars beside photovoltaic wafers and industrial electrical contacts. Silver closed at US$64.15 an ounce on Sept. 16, up 0.45% on the day, while gold…
Autonomous battery-electric haul trucks operate on a terraced open-pit mine. The commercial question around autonomous mining technology is changing. Operators are no longer asking only whether…
China’s rare-earth export-control suspension is approaching a decision point that could reshape procurement plans across the Western automotive, defense, electronics and energy industries. The suspension covering…
Hemlo Mining’s underground electrical substation outage shows how quickly a relatively small power-system failure can become a production problem. The Sept. 4 outage affected the Alimak…
Large-scale mining infrastructure illustrates why buyers are placing a premium on operating districts, processing access and logistics networks. Mining M&A is increasingly moving beyond the purchase…
For mining companies, ESG compliance is moving from a reporting exercise into a condition of access: access to permits, financing, insurance, strategic government support and, increasingly,…
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