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While South Africa is a source of critical minerals, ongoing exploration activity is needed to discover new deposits and grow the country’s minerals resource base, says industry employers’...
Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) is currently preparing and packaging 34 projects with an estimated capital value of R259-billion, says ISA acting head Mameetse Masemola, with these projects...
Perpetua Resources has been awarded additional funding from the US Army for the project.
Australia offers a secure alternative supply for critical minerals vital to industry, its trade minister Don Farrell said on Thursday, in the face of rising concerns about Beijing's dominance of...
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has issued a Ministerial order to the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) board to engage in a mediation process with Airports Coordination Services (ACS)....
Vancouver-based Defense Metals on Wednesday announced a letter of interest from Export Development Canada (EDC) that could see up to $250-million in debt financing committed toward the development...
TSX-V-listed Graphite One said on Tuesday that its Graphite Creek project was the first in Alaska to be accepted as a 'covered project' onto the federal government's FAST-41 permitting dashboard....
Nasdaq-listed American Resources Corporation has, through its holding in ReElement Technologies Corporation – a US innovator in rare earth element (REE) and critical mineral refining – secured a...
Toronto-listed tungsten producer Almonty Industries has appointed Alan Estevez to its board with effect from May 30. CEO Lewis Black said that Estevez' deep expertise in national security...
SFA Oxford Platinum Lectures 2025 attracted the broadest spectrum of platinum interest amid the highest attendance ever, with a similar top-notch turnout evident at the London Platinum Week that...
UK-based Tungsten West on Friday released a development and economic plan for the restart of the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine, in Devon, which could deliver over 20% of global primary tungsten...
Australia's Cobalt Blue has signed a three-year deal with commodities giant Glencore to supply up to half of the feedstock required for its Kwinana Cobalt Refinery (KCR). Under the agreement,...
A 30% net effective tariff rate on exports to the US from South Africa would essentially destroy demand growth in 2025 and 2026, resulting in permanent economic scarring, Wood Mackenzie metals and...
Ukraine is overhauling its minerals sector, which has been pounded by three years of war, in the hope of unlocking potential and attracting billions of dollars of investment from a minerals deal...
Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence has expressed dismay and concern about the paralysed repair and maintenance project (RAMP) for the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s)...
Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) is currently preparing and packaging 34 projects with an estimated capital value of R259-billion, says ISA acting head Mameetse Masemola, with these projects...
The Special Investigating Unit has been authorised to investigate allegations of maladministration in the Department of Defence and recover any losses the State may have suffered. President Cyril...
Construction has begun on a long-awaited critical minerals testing facility in Townsville, in northern Queensland, with the state’s new Liberal National Party (LNP) government claiming credit for...
Greenland on Wednesday handed a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French mining group aiming to extract a moon-like rock that could offer a climate-friendly alternative in aluminium production....
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana indicated that major reforms are being considered to both State spending and the actual Budget process when tabling a third version of the contentious 2025 Budget...
Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft has acquired Tomtor, the country's largest rare earth metal deposit, a companies registry showed on Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin's call last year...
Rare earth minerals miner Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine (SMM) has launched a new phase of its development, with the start of construction on a new on-site laboratory and a comprehensive...
The Stibnite gold and antimony project in Idaho has cleared its final federal regulatory hurdle, owner Perpetua Resource announced on Monday. The US Army Corps of Engineers has issued the project...
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that dealing with the memory of past atrocities is one of the most difficult and delicate tasks a nation can undertake, but noted that it can be a vital...
European tungsten prices surged this month to their highest in more than a decade, as traders scrambled for supplies after China imposed export curbs and reduced quotas on the metal used in...
South Africa and Lesotho have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a framework of cooperation on the proposed construction of two weirs on the Mohokare/Caledon river and to...
Cyber security in the age of AI is a key topic for the forthcoming ITWeb Security Summit, to be held in Cape Town and Johannesburg. As AI transforms both the digital threat landscape and the tools...
NATO allies have started cobbling together an agreement to significantly boost defense spending in a way that may assuage US President Donald Trump’s demand to spend 5% of economic output on the...
The African National Congress on Tuesday rebuffed the US’s decision to grant refugee status to individuals that the party says “self-identify” as Afrikaners, describing them as “instigators of a...
State-owned defence industrial group Denel announced on Tuesday morning that its acting Group CFO Thandeka Sabela had been reinstated, after having been suspended for several months. The suspension...
hina said on Monday that it will strengthen controls over the full supply chains of strategic minerals exports as part of efforts to tighten its dominant grip on materials it deems crucial to its...
China has launched a special campaign to crack down on the smuggling of strategic minerals as Beijing seeks to enforce export restrictions it placed on various metals used in industries ranging...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday expressed disappointment with Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga’s absence from a meeting to discuss the withdrawal of the South African...
South African private-sector defence group Milkor, which works in the aerospace, cyber, ground, maritime and weapons sectors, has unveiled its latest aerospace project – the Milkor 780 uncrewed...
This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Proclaimed by the UN, it celebrates the centenary of the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and is being marked by...
This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Proclaimed by the UN, it celebrates the centenary of the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and is being marked by...
Experts and indigenous peoples’ leaders have called for an end to rights abuses and environmental destruction driven by the growing global demand for critical minerals. In a briefing on April 30,...
Lynas Rare Earths is eyeing potential purchases of rare earths deposits in Malaysia and Brazil and plans to work with early-stage developers to help bring their mines online, its CEO Amanda Lacaze...
The prefeasibility study (PFS) work on London-listed Harena Resources’ 75%-owned Ampasindava rare earths project, in Madagascar, is progressing at pace. The company added on May 6 that initial work...
The Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (Tracit) has launched a second edition of South Africa’s ‘Fight Against Illicit Trade’ report, which recommends a public-private partnership (PPP)...
By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe (Virtual Showroom) In safety-critical sectors, the reliability of breathalyser testing must be unquestionable. The potential for miscalibration...
On Tuesday, the South African National Defence Force began the phased withdrawal of its recruits and equipment from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a directive from the...
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has officially congratulated Mark Carney on his election victory and upcoming role as the new Prime Minister of Canada. With Carney set to lead the country,...
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