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…
Sustainable Mining
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Africa • Oct 17, 2025
China’s Huayou Zimbabwe Lithium Plant to Power
$400M Huayou Zimbabwe lithium plant will refine local ore into battery-grade lithium sulphate, boosting EV supply chains across Africa and beyond.
Mining Technology • Oct 17, 2025
UK Startup Targets Mining Emissions with
Digital Catapult invests £400,000 in Optimal Slope to scale optimal slope pit design software that cuts mine waste and Scope 1 emissions by up to 20%.
Energy Transition • Oct 16, 2025
Fortescue Job Cuts as EV Manufacturing Shifts to China
Fortescue job cuts confirmed as the company moves its EV and battery manufacturing to China, marking a major shift in its green mining strategy.
Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) • Oct 8, 2025
Metal-Organic Frameworks Could Redefine Metal
When BASF first commercialized a metal-organic framework (MOF) material in 2016, few imagined that the same class of crystalline, porous compounds might one day help miners…
Latin America • Oct 1, 2025
Chile’s Alcaparrosa Sinkhole: Court Orders
TIERRA AMARILLA, Chile — Three years after a vast sinkhole tore open above the Alcaparrosa underground copper mine, Chilean regulators have turned a slow-moving environmental disaster…
Energy Transition • Sep 30, 2025
Clean Energy Transition Accelerates Beyond
The global clean energy transition has shifted decisively beyond the policy frameworks of advanced economies, with countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, and Tanzania adopting solar and…
Sustainable Mining • Sep 29, 2025
Turning Mine Waste into $1.3 Trillion in
Vancouver-based Arca is betting that the mining industry’s path to long-term sustainability—and profitability—runs through its tailings storage facilities. Building on two decades of geochemical research at…
Energy Transition • Sep 26, 2025
Norway’s $2 Trillion Wealth Fund Backs
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest with assets exceeding $2 trillion, has committed $1.5 billion to Brookfield Asset Management’s Global Transition Fund II, cementing its…
Mining Technology • Sep 24, 2025
Honghua Unveils Intelligent Fracturing System
Honghua Group, a subsidiary of Dongfang Electric Corporation and one of China’s largest land drilling rig suppliers, has introduced an intelligent fracturing solution designed to automate…
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