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Mining

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    US politics & policy
    US moves to repeal Biden-era limits on pollution from power plants

    Proposals are Trump’s most significant efforts to unpick green regulations since returning to White House

    Kids in a swimming pool as steam rises from the Miller coal Power Plant in Adamsville, Alabama in the distance
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Copper
    Smelters pay to process copper as China expands capacity

    Fee earned to turn concentrate into the refined metal falls further into negative territory this year

    A worker in the foundry of the KGHM Polska Miedz SA copper smelter in Glogow, Poland
  • Sunday, 8 June, 2025
    Coal
    India’s coal champion reopens dozens of mines

    State-owned Coal India chair says company is also preparing greenfield projects to meet energy demand

    A worker at a coal mine
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    International Energy Agency
    Fossil fuel spending to fall for first time since pandemic

    Decline is led by oil sector, where lower prices are forcing companies to reassess their plans, says IEA

    Pumpjacks are seen before sunrise in Hobbs, New Mexico, US
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Glencore-backed Cobalt Holdings scraps planned London listing

    Metal investment company pulls IPO weeks after announcing plans for $230mn share offering

    Pieces of cobalt
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Abu Dhabi minerals company buys DR Congo tin mine stake from Denham arm

    IRH’s deal in war-torn region shows Gulf states’ appetite to gain a stronghold in critical minerals

    Bisie tin mine
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    Mongolia
    Mongolian prime minister ousted after public anger over son’s luxury lifestyle

    Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene loses parliamentary vote in country with vast mineral wealth

    Mongolian prime minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene speaking to parliament in Ulaanbaatar on June 2 2025
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American’s $11bn platinum spin-off makes London market debut

    Demerger marks significant milestone for corporate overhaul and refocus on copper and iron ore

    Workers outside Valterra’s smelter site in Rustenburg, South Africa
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    LexIndustrial metals
    How to break China’s stranglehold on critical minerals Premium content

    One potential fix is using AI to cut extraction costs

    A large mining machine is operating at the Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia, China
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    US Supreme Court clears way for Rio Tinto’s Resolution copper mine

    The project, jointly owned with BHP, would eventually meet a quarter of US needs for the metal

    The headframes of mining shafts
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Greenland
    Greenland says it will turn to China if US and EU shun its mining sector

    Business minister suggests Arctic territory may look elsewhere for help exploiting minerals

    Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s business and mineral resources minister
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd
    China’s largest gold miner expands into ‘streaming’ project finance

    Zijin Mining subsidiary aims to offer payments to other mines to secure more supplies at a time of skyrocketing prices

  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Commodities
    Thermal coal prices hit 4-year low amid supply glut

    Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sparked bull market but subsequent output surge now weighs down on prices

    A tug pulls a barge carrying coal past the Islamic centre in Samarinda, Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    DR Congo
    DR Congo eyes US minerals deal tied to peace in rebel-hit east by end of June

    Another round of negotiations in Washington expected next week

  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio ousted chief Stausholm to seek boss with more mining experience

    Executive leaving sooner than expected with heads of iron ore and aluminium units in the running to replace him

    Jakob Stausholm reading from a speech during a presentation
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    How the US plans to break China’s stranglehold on lithium

    New technology that extracts the metal from underground brines has been compared to the shale revolution

    Montage of images showing the Standard Lithium extraction plant in southern Arkansas, a locator map and a hand holding a lithium rich rock
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto announces surprise exit of chief Stausholm

    Executive to leave top job at mining group that has faced activist pressure

    Jakob Stausholm speaks wearing a hard hat and orange overalls
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    International Energy Agency
    Top critical minerals producers cement lead as Trump pushes to cut reliance

    China is the biggest refiner for 19 out of 20 metals analysed by the International Energy Agency

    Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Commodities
    Son of Kazakh oligarch in tussle for control of miner ENRC

    Former FTSE 100 company was once a symbol of Soviet money flowing into London

    Pedestrians walk across a street with Eurasian Resources Group’s plant in the background in the town of Aksu, north-eastern Kazakhstan
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    News in-depthGold
    US lawmakers warn over delays to major gold mine in Northern Ireland

    Backers fear long planning process for Curraghinalt project could deter other investors in one of poorest UK regions

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto strikes near $1bn deal in Chilean lithium project

    Anglo-Australian miner doubles down on critical mineral, buying almost 50% stake in partnership with Codelco

    Salar de Maricunga in Chile
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Modern warfare is reshaping metals demand, says mining veteran

    Surge in military consumption comes as growth of renewable energy supercharges demand for copper

    An employee in an ammunitions factory handles 155mm caliber shells
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Deep-sea mining: Can the US turn science fiction into reality?

    Donald Trump’s executive order on undersea minerals has encouraged mining companies — but critics say it will damage the environment and struggle to make money

    Montage of a mineral nodule at the bottom of the ocean overlaid with graphics of deepsea mining equipment that operates at different depths
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Markets InsightZornitsa Todorova
    If the US wants more rare earths, it needs to tackle refining

    China has an unmatched dominance in the processing of critical commodities

    Environmental experts of CDM Engineering Ukraine test the groundwater level at the Polokhivske lithium deposit
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Why Trump’s Ukraine resources deal won’t show results for a decade

    Industry executives warn of long timelines and high costs of an agreement championed by US president

    Environmental experts test the groundwater level at the Polokhivske lithium deposit in Ukraine
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