Africa • Oct 29, 2025
Ghana Mining Revenue: $40 B Generated, But
Accra (October 2025) — Over the past decade, Ghana mining revenue has exceeded an estimated US $40 billion, making the extractive sector one of the most…
Minerals & Metals
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Africa • Oct 28, 2025
Kenya Rare Earth Minerals Discovery Could
Kenya rare earth minerals at Mrima Hill may transform global critical-minerals supply chains and East Africa’s mining economy.
Critical Minerals • Oct 28, 2025
JPMorgan Perpetua Resources Deal Signals
JPMorgan Perpetua Resources deal invests $75M in gold and antimony mining to strengthen U.S. critical mineral security.
Base Metals • Oct 27, 2025
Aluminium Price 2025: Base Metals Market Splits as Zinc
The aluminium price 2025 story defines the tone of today’s base-metals market — a landscape where aluminium is rallying to multi-year highs, zinc is caught in…
Battery Metals • Oct 27, 2025
India E-Waste Recycling Push Turns Waste into
₹1,500-crore incentive to recover lithium, cobalt, and nickel from discarded electronics India e-waste recycling has entered a new phase as the government launches an ambitious ₹1,500-crore…
Europe • Oct 25, 2025
EU Steel Tariffs: How Brussels’ 50% Levy
When the EU steel tariffs proposal was unveiled in October 2025, few in Brussels could have predicted how seismic its effects would be. The European Commission’s…
Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) • Oct 24, 2025
Water Stewardship in mining: Becomes a Central
When a new gold mine is proposed in water-stressed West Africa, one of the first questions from regulators and communities is no longer “How much ore?”…
Battery Metals • Oct 22, 2025
The Atacama Lithium Water Crisis: How Lithium
Life on Cracked Earth Raquel Celina Rodríguez walks carefully across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats — ground zero of the Atacama lithium…
Critical Minerals • Oct 22, 2025
Australia Critical Minerals Push: From Ore Exporter to
Australia critical minerals projects are entering a new phase—one that focuses less on digging and more on processing and refining. When Alcoa Corporation and Japan’s Sojitz…
Asia Pacific • Oct 21, 2025
Urban Mining: How Taiwan Is Countering China’s
TAIPEI — China’s stranglehold on the global rare earth market has forced Taiwan to rethink where its critical minerals come from. With Beijing controlling more than…
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