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Diversified miner BHP has reached a major milestone at its Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan, with the safe completion and installation of the new production headframe. Standing more than 50 m...
Denison Mines has closed a $345-million offering of convertible senior unsecured notes, due in 2031, positioning it to advance the project.
An industry consortium comprising some of the world’s biggest steelmakers and other value chain players has joined forces to assess the development of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)...
The Senqu bridge was more than 80% complete by mid-July 2025.
Tivan has secured early-stage support from two Australian government financing bodies as it aims to develop Australia’s first fluorite mining and processing operation.
Industry body Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has announced the finalists of the 2025 Aon Engineering Excellence Awards, which honour outstanding projects, organisations and individuals...
Tivan has secured early-stage support from two Australian government financing bodies as it seeks to develop the mining and processing operation.
As I was preparing this article on Nigeria’s progress since President Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023, news filtered through of the death of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu had been...
Australia-based mineral investment, exploration and evaluation company Cyclone Metals has marked a substantial derisking milestone.
Minerals explorer and developer Cyclone Metals has marked a substantial derisking milestone at its flagship Iron Bear project in Canada, with a study by global engineering group Hatch confirming...
On June 18, Critical minerals company Tivan announced the Australian government’s approval of Sumitomo’s entry into the Speewah fluorite project joint venture.
Exploration and rare earths development company Defense Metals announced a letter of interest from Export Development Canada on June 5 that could result in up to $250-million in debt financing...
A prefeasibility study has established Wicheeda as one of the most advanced undeveloped rare earth projects in North America and Europe.
The contractor responsible for the Polihali transfer tunnel construction has resumed work.
The transport of three fully-assembled Gottwald ESP 10 mobile port cranes – which are produced by crane manufacturer Konecrane – from Schiedam and Westdorpe, in the Netherlands, to ports in Chile...
TSX-listed Barrick Mining Corporation has reported a solid start to the financial year, with first-quarter earnings a share up 59% year-on-year, and says it is making significant headway on its...
BHP aims to increase copper production in South Australia to more than 500 000 t/y of refined copper cathode by the early 2030s.
Critical minerals company Tivan has reported progress in negotiations with Sumitomo towards establishing a binding joint venture for the development of the project.
Uranium project developer Denison Mines expects to start site preparation and construction activities in early 2026.
BHP is assessing the optimal pathway for a smelter and refinery expansion at Olympic Dam.
Diversified miner BHP has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract to a joint venture between Fluor Australia and Hatch to support the proposed expansion of...
Testwork, engineering, an updated feasibility study and permitting programmes are progressing.
The reactor pressure vessel has been installed for the first of the two European pressurised reactors.
Speewah has been granted 'major project status' by the Australian government.
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has awarded the engineering design and construction supervision contract for the Oxbow Hydropower Scheme.
Denison Mines Corp has filed its final environmental-impact statement with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Lake Resources has announced a sale agreement to sell three of its lithium brine assets as the company shifts its attention to advancing Kachi.
Denison Mines is advancing engineering and regulatory efforts for its planned Phoenix project.
The greatest gift we can give to our children, and the future South Africa, is our own healing. South Africa may have moved beyond apartheid, but not beyond racial polarisation. Virtually every...
With recent statistics revealing that 70 per cent of young Australians would never consider a career in mining, and with enrolments in engineering courses dropping by 63 per cent in the past 10...
A Memorandum of Understanding between digital reality solutions leader Hexagon and PT Petronesia Benimel was one of many highlights in another jam-packed day at the International Mining and...
The search for a new CEO for Vancouver-based Defense Metals, the developer of the Whicheeda rare earth elements (REE) project in British Columbia, remains under way. Executive chairperson and...
Australian company Lithium Universe is progressing its strategy to address the “lithium conversion gap” in North America by establishing a Canada-based lithium chemicals operation. The company...
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has reported that the upper intake tunnel has broken through into the lower intake tunnel.
TSX-V-listed Highland Copper has appointed Wynand van Dyk as project director for the Copperwood project, in Michigan, US. Van Dyk is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in mining,...
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has achieved the successful breakthrough of the upper intake tunnel into the lower intake tunnel at the Polihali dam.
Anglo American investors will keenly scrutinize CEO Duncan Wanblad on Thursday as he gives an update on the London-based miner's strategy, just months after fighting off a $49-billion takeover bid...
Lake Resources is laying off staff and selling assets, as low prices for the electric vehicle battery metal hampers efforts to find customers and investors for the project.
Mitochondria has recently embarked on developing an electrolyser system for stationary applications.
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