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FPX Nickel president and CEO Martin Turenne
VIP treatment for FPX Nickel’s Baptise nickel project
4th September 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

TSX-V-listed FPX Nickel has received a major boost as the province of British Columbia has selected the Baptiste nickel project to be part of the newly established Critical Minerals Office (CMO)... 


Construction starts in Gladstone on large high-purity alumina plant
Construction starts in Gladstone on large high-purity alumina plant
3rd September 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The transformation of Alpha HPA’s Gladstone-based project into the largest single-site ultra-high purity aluminium materials refinery in the world is under way with the company on Tuesday... 


The Stillwater mine in the US
Sibanye to post interim loss on US impairment; lower headline earnings
2nd September 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater expects to report a loss a share of between 250.8c and 277.2c, or about $0.13 and $0.15, for the six months ended June 30, mainly... 


Nifty copper leaching
Cyprium secures A$40m loan with Glencore
30th August 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

ASX-listed Cyprium Metals on Friday announced a binding term sheet with diversified miner Glencore for offtake financing from the Nifty copper mine on the western edge of the Great Sandy desert in... 


South Australia was known as ‘The Copper Kingdom’ in the 1840s when copper was first discovered.
South Australia begins assessment of BHP’s copper expansion
30th August 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

The South Australian government has kicked off the application and assessment process for BHP’s proposed expansion of its smelter and refinery at Olympic Dam. If approved, the proposed project... 


Drill core from the Keliber project
Keliber lithium hydroxide project, Finland – update
30th August 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Sibanye-Stillwater has concluded a €500-million green loan financing facility through its subsidiary, Keliber Technology Oy. 


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Eneabba rare earths refinery, Australia – update
30th August 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Iluka Resources MD Tom O’Leary has said the company will not complete the refinery without more Australian government funding. 


Jubilee CEO Leon Coetzer
Jubilee enters into PPA for hydro, solar power in Zambia
27th August 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Aim-listed diversified metals producer Jubilee Metals Group has signed a three-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company (LHPC), an independent hydropower and solar... 


Gold being poured
Mali to meet or exceed forecast for industrial gold output
26th August 2024 By: Reuters

Industrial gold production in Mali, one of Africa's top producers of the precious metal, is expected to reach or exceed its 57.3 metric ton (tons) forecast for 2024, according to the mines... 


Miners tap trucks, divert shipments to sidestep Canada rail woes
Miners tap trucks, divert shipments to sidestep Canada rail woes
23rd August 2024 By: Bloomberg

Two mining giants are re-routing shipments and turning to trucks to deal with disruptions from a Canadian railway stoppage that threatens to undermine the industry’s operations. Rio Tinto Group... 


Image of gold bars
Tocantinzinho gold project, Brazil – update
23rd August 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

G Mining has completed its first exports of doré bars from the project.  


Eneabba stockpile
Iluka won’t complete rare earths refinery without more govt funding – CEO
22nd August 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Mineral sands miner Iluka MD Tom O’Leary said this week that the company would not complete its rare earths refinery in Western Australia without more Australian government funding. Speaking after... 


Sibanye CEO Neal Froneman
Sibanye secures €500m green loan to develop its Keliber lithium project
22nd August 2024 By: Darren Parker

JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater has executed a €500-million green loan financing facility for its Keliber lithium project, in Finland, through its subsidiary Keliber Technology Oy. The... 


Sibanye terminates key supply contract for Sandouville refinery
Sibanye terminates key supply contract for Sandouville refinery
21st August 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Critical minerals and precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater on Wednesday announced the termination of a key commercial supply contract for its Sandouville nickel refinery in France. The... 


Zimplats' revenues fall on softer metal prices
20th August 2024 By: Darren Parker

Platinum miner Zimplats has reported a 20% year-on-year decrease in revenue, dropping from $962.3-million at the end of the 2023 financial year to $767.1-million at the close of the 2024 financial... 


Electra CEO Trent Mell
Electra awarded $20m by US Defense Department
20th August 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The US Department of Defense has awarded Nasdaq- and TSX-V-listed Electra Battery Materials $20-million to support the construction of a cobalt sulphate refinery, capable of producing battery-grade... 


GMIN exports first doré bars from Tocantinzinho
16th August 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX-listed G Mining Ventures (GMIN) has completed its first exports of doré bars from the Tocantinzinho mine, in Brazil, to a refinery in Switzerland. The project remains on time and budget for... 


Whitehaven Coal to cut 192 jobs at mines purchased from BHP
Whitehaven Coal to cut 192 jobs at mines purchased from BHP
16th August 2024 By: Reuters

Australia's Whitehaven will cut 192 jobs at the Daunia and Blackwater coking coal mines it took over from global miner BHP Group, its spokesperson told Reuters on Friday, adding to a slew of roles... 


Image of solar farm at sunset
Gumatj and Rirratjingu solar farm projects, Australia
16th August 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Rio Tinto is building two solar farms on the Gove peninsula to help underpin a low-carbon future for the Gove community after mining operations cease.  


Jubilee CEO Leon Coetzer at the Roan concentrator facility in Zambia
First copper concentrate produced from Jubilee’s Roan front-end module
13th August 2024 By: Darren Parker

Diversified metals producer Jubilee Metals has announced the first production of copper concentrate from the front-end module at its Roan concentrator facility in Zambia. The copper concentrate... 


sasol secunda
Impairments to push Sasol into a net loss
12th August 2024 By: Darren Parker

JSE-listed energy company Sasol has reported that its financial results for the year ended June 30 were negatively impacted on by challenging market conditions, including continued pressure from... 


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Maelgwyn - Women in Mining
9th August 2024

Specialised mineral processing technologies provider Maelgwyn South Africa celebrates the women who make things happen. Sazini Makamu 


An illustration of a lithium refinery
First merchant lithium refinery in final phase of EIS fundraising
9th August 2024

Lithium processing company Green Lithium has partnered with UK-based private equity firm Prospedia Capital to raise up to £2.6-million of seed and venture capital covered under the UK’s Enterprise... 


An image showing Jubilee CEO Leon Coetzer at Project Roan
Jubilee starts operations at Roan front-end upgrade project
8th August 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Diversified metals producer Jubilee Resources Group has started operations at its Roan upgrade project, in Zambia. The start of the newly-built front-end section of the Roan operation adds... 


Glencore Group's Astron Energy refuelling station.
Astron’s a terrific asset, ferrochrome’s helping world to decarbonise, says Glencore
8th August 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Astron Energy, which has successfully rebranded one of South Africa’s transport fuel forecourt networks, is described by Glencore CEO Gary Nagle as being a terrific asset. With the restart to full... 


The Sapref refinery
Shell, BP to pay operational costs to buyer of South Africa's Sapref refinery
6th August 2024 By: Reuters

South African units of Shell and BP will pay around $15-million to State-run Central Energy Fund (CEF) for operational costs at Sapref refinery that the oil firms are selling to the government, a... 


Centaurus ups Jaguar resource estimate
6th August 2024 By: Darren Parker

Australia-listed Centaurus Metals has announced a significant increase in both the size and confidence levels of the mineral resource for its flagship 100%-owned Jaguar nickel sulphide project in... 


Western Australian job losses dent Australia's green ambitions
Western Australian job losses dent Australia's green ambitions
1st August 2024 By: Reuters

A downturn in the critical minerals sector that has triggered a wave of job losses in Australia's top earning resources state has also struck a blow to the country's hopes to build out a critical... 


Policy and tech keys to speeding circular journey: Helen Degeling
1st August 2024

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘There is a huge knowledge gap, generally, around tailings' 


Russia's Nornickel sticks to production outlook despite furnace repairs
Russia's Nornickel sticks to production outlook despite furnace repairs
29th July 2024 By: Reuters

Russia's Nornickel, the world's largest producer of palladium and a major producer of refined nickel, reported on Monday a 1% drop in nickel output for the first half of the year, but kept its 2024... 


Angola's new Cabinda refinery to start up later this year – CEO
26th July 2024 By: Reuters

Angola’s new Cabinda crude oil refinery is on track to start up later this year before ramping up to full first phase production of 30,000 barrels a day by July next year, the plant’s Chief... 


An aerial photograph of the Metalkol facility
Long term cobalt supply deal signed
26th July 2024

A contract for the long-term supply of cobalt hydroxide was secured in early April between cobalt and copper producer Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Canadian battery minerals producer Electra... 


An image of gold bars that could be traced by Digital Product Passports by the platform
Tech platform offered to boost gold traceability
26th July 2024

A partnership between mining traceability platform Minespider and artisanal gold mining cooperative organisation Society Artisanal, to improve artisanally mined gold traceability and help prove... 


Location of the Waterberg platinum group metals project
Waterberg platinum group metals project, South Africa – update
26th July 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Platinum Group metals is working with the South African government to analyse the possibility of exporting platinum group metals concentrate. 


Terry Heymann
Opinion: Expanding the trusted gold ecosystem; building a more transparent and trusted gold supply chain
25th July 2024

In this article, World Gold Council CFO Terry Heymann writes about the measures being taken by the mining industry and gold refiners to increase trust in the gold supply chain. 


Mining equipment in operation at the Konkola Copper Mine
Vedanta seeks partners to develop Zambia mines it’s regaining
25th July 2024 By: Bloomberg

Vedanta Resources, the mining company that billionaire Anil Agarwal founded, is looking for business partners to boost output at the Zambian copper assets it’s regaining control of after years of... 


Pensana chairperson sells 1.5m shares to provide working capital for the company
23rd July 2024 By: Darren Parker

London-listed Pensana has announced that, further to the £2-million facility made available to the company by two of its directors in March, chairperson Paul Atherley has sold 1.5-million ordinary... 


Aliko Dangote
Dangote to scrap steel investment over allegations of monopoly
22nd July 2024 By: Bloomberg

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is calling off plans to invest in a new steel plant in Nigeria after the government accused him of seeking to become a monopoly with his new refinery in the... 


Image of molten metal
Manyar copper smelter project, Indonesia – update
19th July 2024 By: Sheila Barradas

Freeport has largely completed construction of its new Manyar smelter and has started commissioning operations. 


Nornickel in talks to build China nickel plant for battery sector, sources say
18th July 2024 By: Reuters

Russia's Nornickel is in talks with several Chinese battery companies to build a plant jointly producing nickel material from Russian semi-finished products, three sources with knowledge of the... 


QPM receives state govt grant for TECH project
15th July 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Queensland government has granted Queensland Pacific Metals an A$8-million grant to advance its Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) project towards investment readiness Queensland has... 


Trafigura and Mubadala plan sale of Rio iron-ore port
Trafigura and Mubadala plan sale of Rio iron-ore port
15th July 2024 By: Bloomberg

Trafigura Group and Mubadala Capital are exploring the sale of a Brazilian iron-ore port terminal operator they acquired from former billionaire Eike Batista about a decade ago, according to people... 


LBMA appoints new nonexec director; chairperson to step down
12th July 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Independent precious metals authority the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) has reported that former BIS banking department head Peter Zoellner will join the association as an independent... 


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