February 4, 2025

China hits back at US tariffs with mineral export curbs

Beijing's retaliation includes export curbs on tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, indium, and molybdenum, vital for defence and clean energy.

January 29, 2025

Almonty enters molybdenum offtake deal with SpaceX contractor SeAH

SeAH will purchase all material produced at Almonty's Sangdong molybdenum project in Korea, which is targeting production by the end of 2026.

January 15, 2025

Value of 50 biggest mining companies drops by $126 billion

The world’s biggest miners are now worth $1.35 trillion after losing a combined $126 billion over the course of 2024 as the copper rally faded and gold stocks once again…

January 14, 2025

Biden signs executive order to power-up AI infrastructure

The push for data centre storage power is set to boost mining for energy transition metals such as silver for solar panels, copper for wiring, and lithium, cobalt, manganese, iron,…

January 9, 2025

Taseko expects production increase at Gibraltar mine in 2025

Copper and molybdenum production for 2024 was 106 million lb. and 1.4 million lb., respectively.

January 8, 2025

Faraday’s Copper Creek drill results show resource growth potential in Arizona

The $2.7 billion capex project contains 4.2 billion lb. copper, 74.6 million lb. of molybdenum and 15.5 million oz. of silver.

December 20, 2024

Earth AI finds gold near Willow Glen molybdenum project

It has found its first gold system with the help of AI, making mineral exploration faster, more accurate, and cheaper.

December 18, 2024

Trump advisers urge ending environmental reviews for mines receiving US funds

Proposed US critical minerals projects have been in regulatory review for more than a decade.

December 11, 2024

Economics, not regulation, the main reason behind delay in British Columbia’s mines, study shows

Regulation was a factor in only three of the 20 delayed projects that have received environmental certificates since 1995.

December 1, 2024

Global mineral exploration activity in October was highest in a year, S&P data shows

According to S&P, funds raised by junior and intermediate miners nearly quadrupled to $1.61 billion in October, the highest since March 2022.