Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with motoring major Ford Motor Company over the potential supply of lithium from the Kachi project. 

Kore Potash has received an enhancement study for its Kola project. 

The tender for the construction of the Polihali Operations Centre has been awarded. 

A three- to six-month delay in POX-2’s original schedule is expected, mostly owing to logistical challenges.  

OZ Minerals has announced a decision to increase the hoisting shaft capacity at Prominent Hill. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed its first geothermal energy offtake agreement at its Zero Carbon lithium project. 

Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Hanwa Co for the supply of up to 25 000 t/y of lithium carbonate over a ten-year period from the Kachi project. 

Alamos Gold has been approved to ramp up construction activities on the Island Gold Phase 3 expansion. 

The Nimba project is considered one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

Lake Resources has confirmed that the production base case on the Kachi project will be increased in the definitive feasibility to be released in mid-2022.  

Kore Potash expects to finalise an optimisation study report for the Kola project before the end of the quarter. 

Fortune Minerals has selected a site for its proposed brownfield hydrometallurgical refinery for the NICO project.  

Ivanhoe Liberia is developing what is considered to be one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

The construction of permanent housing, a visitors’ lodge and associated infrastructure at the Polihali Village is set to start this month. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding and termsheet with European chemicals producer Nobian to assess the feasibility of jointly developing Vulcan's central lithium plant. 

Queensland Pacific Minerals announced a A$30-million capital raise and conditional finance support from Export Finance Australia in December 2021 for up to A$250-million of debt funding for its... 

Toronto-based Innovation Metals Corporation (IMC) says commissioning of its demonstration-scale rare earth separation and purification pilot plant, in Ontario, will start in the first quarter of... 

Twelve more companies in the lithium supply chain including Rio Tinto, BASF and Sibanye Stillwater have joined a global trade association for the material used to make batteries for electric... 

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has awarded the construction contract for the Katse Village upgrades. 

Guinea-focused developer Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG) chairperson Guy de Selliers and SMFG CEO Mamady Youla have announced the positive findings of its prefeasibility study (PFS) for... 

Emerging African phosphate developer Kropz’s Elandsfontein project, in South Africa, remains on schedule, albeit tight, and within the original projected capital budget for commissioning next... 

Hatch has announced a Series A investment in augmented business intelligence firm, Brainnwave. The two organizations have formed a co-venture to focus on developing applications and products... 

Kore Potash has received an interim report from Summit Consortium of the results of an optimisation study on the Kola potash project. 

Fortune Minerals has announced that the all-season road – linking the isolated community of Whati, in Northwest Territories, to the national highway system – will open to the public on November 30. 

The West Coast district municipality, in the Western Cape, has issued a five-year air emissions licence to the Saldanha Iron Ore Terminal. The terminal handled more than 54-million tonnes of... 

At the Construction World Best Projects gala event on November 3, Hatch won the Consulting Engineers award for Kenmare Resources’ (Kenmare) Wet Concentrator Plant B relocation project in... 

The South African and Lesotho water Ministries have agreed to fast-track Phase II of the  Lesotho Highlands Water Project to ensure security of supply to the Integrated Vaal River System. 

Vulcan Energy has signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with cathode materials producer Umicore. 

The Royal Academy of Engineering named Trueman Goba, chair of Hatch Africa, an honorary fellow of the academy, recognizing him for his exceptional contributions, innovative leadership, and... 

UK-based national academy of engineering the Royal Academy of Engineering has named engineering consultancy Hatch Africa chairperson Trueman Goba an honorary fellow of the academy, recognising him... 

The African Development Bank has approved a $86.72-million loan to co-finance the second phase of the project. 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

Production of the new-look Polo has started at Volkswagen’s manufacturing plant in Kariega. Vehicle models typically receive a makeover in the middle of their life cycle. 

The TECH project has been declared a prescribed project by the Queensland government. 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

Canada’s Export Credit Agency has issued Lake Resources with a letter of intent to work alongside UK Export Finance to potentially fund up to 70% of the finance required for the Kachi project. 

Vulcan Energy has secured a site for its planned lithium hydroxide plant. 

Lake Resources has struck a deal with US-based lithium-extraction technology company Lilac Solutions to partner on technology and funding to develop the Kachi project. 

Production of the new-look Polo has started at Volkswagen’s manufacturing plant in Kariega. Vehicle models typically receive a make-over in the middle of their lifecycle. 

For the six months ended June 30, Aim-listed emerging African phosphate explorer and developer Kropz held steady cash of $12-million, the same value it held at the period ended December 31, 2020.... 

Kore Potash continues to progress with the development of its Kola project. 

The Lesotho Highlands Develeopment Authority has reached a milestone in the construction of Phase II LHWP, with the break through of two diversion tunnels on August 16.