Brazilian miner Vale said recently, it will invest 67-billion reais ($12.36-billion) in its mining operations in Minas Gerais state by 2030, as it held a ceremony to mark the reopening of a key mine in the city of Ouro Preto. Most of the investments will be focused...
Copper and platinum group metals miner Ivanhoe Mines has reported the discovery of outcropping copper mineralisation in Kazakhstan’s Chu-Sarysu basin, one of the world’s largest and least-explored sediment-hosted copper districts. The find comes less than a year after...
Austral Resources has finalised its acquisition of Copper Resources Australia from Glencore. This has seen the company acquire the Rocklands project, which consists of three mining leases, one exploration permit, and a processing plant used to produce copper...
VRX Silica (VRX) has been given environmental approval for its 100-per-cent-owned Arrowsmith North silica sand project in Western Australia. Located 270km north of Perth and 25km northwest of Eneabba, the Arrowsmith North project is a globally significant silica sand...
Egypt is stepping up efforts to attract international miners as it targets raising the contribution of mining to the economy from less than 1% of GDP to as much as 6%, Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Karim Badawi said on Thursday. In his first appearance at...
Patriot Battery Metals has reported further progress in securing approvals for its Shaakichiuwaanaan lithium project in Quebec, saying the federal permitting process is now aligned with the provincial pathway already under way. The Impact Assessment Agency of...
