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An all-season road under development in a remote Canadian Shield landscape, illustrating the infrastructure challenge facing northern mineral projects. Canada has attracted nearly C$500 billion (about…
Gold exploration drilling at the Enchi project in Ghana. Gold trading near US$4,400 an ounce is changing the economics of West African exploration. In Ghana, Newcore…
Mining M&A in 2026 is increasingly being shaped by a question that sits beside resource size and commodity exposure: how reliably can the asset move through…
APT powder and antimony ingots in an industrial refining facility. The tungsten market has moved from a long-term supply diversification story to an immediate industrial constraint.…
Copper smelter and converter equipment reflects the processing bottleneck created by scarce concentrate. Copper’s 2026 rally has moved from a price story to a supply-chain stress…
Uranium’s 2026 price move is increasingly being driven by long-term utility contracting rather than short-term spot-market speculation. Spot uranium has risen from about US$81.75 per pound…
Chinese steelworks and iron ore handling infrastructure at a coastal terminal. Singapore iron ore futures briefly fell below US$95 a tonne before recovering to about US$96.40,…
Ecuador’s tax authority has issued a $154 million assessment against Lundin Gold over the calculation of the state’s share of benefits from the Fruta del Norte…
Gold bullion bars stored in a secure institutional vault. Venezuela’s government and a faction of the opposition are nearing an agreement that could move roughly $4…
Great Lakes iron ore shipping remains below seasonal norms despite modest year-over-year growth, keeping domestic pellet demand and Mesabi Metallics’ startup under close scrutiny. Great Lakes…
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