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High-grade iron ore stockpiles and ship-loading infrastructure at an export terminal. Simandou is approaching its first full-year test as a producing iron ore basin, with most…
Zambian copper processing infrastructure under bright African light. Jubilee Metals Group’s copper production in Zambia more than tripled in the year through June, as output from…
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…
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…
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…
The European Union’s revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) promise a substantial reduction in sustainability reporting volume. The European Commission says the rules adopted in July…
Autonomous haul trucks are moving from controlled pilots into larger commercial fleets. EACON’s ORCASTRA autonomous haulage system has now been deployed on more than 1,500 battery-electric…
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