4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (215+ words) Mining Digital Thesis Gold & Silver: A More Responsible Kind of Mining Deep in the Toodoggone district of northern British Columbia, roughly 1, 000 kilometres north of Vancouver, sits one of the largest undeveloped gold and silver deposits in Canada. The Lawyers-Ranch project…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (543+ words) South32 has signed a binding conditional agreement to sell its aluminium assets to Alcoa in a deal worth up to US$5. 6bn, according to the company. Alcoa will also assume rehabilitation provisions of approximately US$1. 2bn tied to the assets. The deal was…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (483+ words) Canada and Japan are discussing the possibility of joint stockpiling of critical minerals, as well as other measures, in a move to loosen their dependence on China supply chains. Among the metals being discussed are graphite and gallium, both of…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (537+ words) Incoming BHP CEO, Brandon Craig, has made significant changes to the executive leadership structure before even taking the helm, most notably splitting the current President Americas role into two. Ahead of Brandon's July 1 start, BHP announced the creation of President…...

1+ week, 29+ min ago  (655+ words) Zimbabwe is exploring mineral-backed loans with China to fund road and railway construction, with finance minister Mthuli Ncube opening talks with China Railway during the World Economic Forum in Dalian. Under the potential deal being discussed, Zimbabwe would pledge future…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (1286+ words) The mining sector is moving at a ferocious pace to address pressures such as decarbonisation, labour shortages and falling ore grades." An industry that was once perhaps slower than others to change is now adopting new technologies and modernisation measures…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (492+ words) The US Department of Defense is committing US$500m to accelerate domestic rare earth midstream processing, as Washington attempts to close the gap between mining and magnet production currently dominated by China. The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital has conditionally committed…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (656+ words) A US defence deadline banning Chinese-origin rare earth magnets and their constituent materials from covered defence systems is fast approaching, and the race is on to find a domestic supply of high-purity iron. Neodymium-iron-boron (Nd Fe B) permanent magnets are used…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (611+ words) BHP and industrial conveyor supplier BOTON have signed a Global Framework Agreement to expand their collaboration to advance automation and sustainability across BHP's operations. Up until the new agreement was signed, BOTON was solely responsible for the'supply of conveyors to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (388+ words) Metso, a publicly traded industrial company, says it has invested in new mineralogy capabilities at its Pori research centre in Finland." Headquartered in Espoo, Finland, Metso focuses on equipment and technology for mining and metals refining. It operates in 50 countries…...