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Gold price outlook hinges on macroeconomic conditions as geopolitical risks, Asian demand gain influence
Updated 39 minutes ago By: Lumkile Nkomfe

In its latest gold appraisal, industry body the World Gold Council says the performance of the gold price in the first half of this year has underscored a sensitivity to shifting macroeconomic... 


A map indicating the location of Aterian's projects in Morocco
Aterian, Lithosquare start joint exploration programmes in Morocco, Botswana
Updated 1 hour 25 minutes ago By: Creamer Media Reporter

London-listed critical minerals exploration and development company Aterian says field operations have started under its recently established strategic joint venture with AI and geology company... 


George Bennett
Rainbow making progress on Phalaborwa DFS
Updated 1 hour 34 minutes ago By: Lumkile Nkomfe

LSE-listed Rainbow Rare Earths reports that, over the first half of this year, work at its Phalaborwa project, in Limpopo, South Africa, has continued to focus on optimising and simplifying the... 


Exxaro appoints two new nonexec directors
Updated 1 hour 37 minutes ago By: Creamer Media Reporter

Diversified resources group Exxaro Resources has appointed two new nonexecutive directors – Shireen Naidoo and Kefilwe Bopape – with effect from July 1. Naidoo has also been appointed a member of... 


South32 COO Africa Noel Pillay.
Alcoa is well positioned to operate South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium, says Pillay
Updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago By: Martin Creamer

As a global producer of materials across the aluminium value chain, Alcoa Corporation is well positioned to operate South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium business into the future, South32 COO Africa... 


Cigar Lake uranium mine
Cameco temporarily halts Cigar Lake mine over downstream processing issues
Updated 3 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX-listed Cameco has temporarily suspended production at its Cigar Lake uranium mine, in Saskatchewan, owing to challenges at the Orano McClean Lake mill where Cigar Lake's ore is processed.... 


Max Power drilling at Lawson complex
Max Power independently validates another promising natural hydrogen target in Canada
Updated 4 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

Canadian natural hydrogen developer Max Power Mining Corporation has verified multiple prospective natural hydrogen and helium zones at the Bracken exploration well, located 325 km south-west of... 


Eni LNG vessel
Commodities trader Mercuria to form JV with Italian major Eni
Updated 4 hours ago By: Reuters

Swiss-based commodities trading house Mercuria and Italian oil and gas major Eni have agreed to set up a joint venture (JV), the companies said on Wednesday, reflecting a trend for trading... 


Norsk Hydro's Slovalco joint venture aluminium smelting plant, in Slovakia
Norsk Hydro's Slovak aluminium smelter to partially restart production
Updated 5 hours ago By: Reuters

Norsk Hydro said on Wednesday its Slovalco aluminium joint venture had struck an agreement with the Slovak government to partially restart production after a four-year shutdown, with the deal... 


Al Wash-hi Majaza mine, in Oman
Alara reaches fifty-first shipment milestone from Omani copper mine
Updated 5 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

ASX-listed Alara Resources has successfully dispatched its fifty-first copper concentrate shipment from the Al Wash-hi Majaza copper mine, in Oman. The mine is operated by Alara's joint venture... 


Penouta mine, in Spain
ETM steps closer to restarting EU's only domestic primary source of tantalum, nobium
Updated 5 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

A shuttered mine in the hills of inland Galicia is a step closer to becoming the EU's only domestic primary source of tantalum and niobium - strategic metals the bloc today imports almost in their... 


Emma Chapman
Sibanye-Stillwater appoints new investor relations head
Updated 5 hours ago By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Mining and metals company Sibanye-Stillwater has appointed Emma Chapman as its new investor relations senior VP, effective September 1. Chapman will succeed James Wellsted, who, in support of the... 


White Mesa uranium mill, in Utah
US report confirms uranium development is at its highest levels in more than ten years
Updated 5 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

Statistics and analysis firm US Energy Information Administration (EIA) finds in its latest yearly uranium production report that US-based uranium mines produced 2.1-million pounds of triuranium... 


SiTration critical minerals recovery process
MIT-spinout verifies breakthrough low-cost copper recovery process at BHP operation
Updated 5 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

Premier private research university Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) spinout materials recovery and processing startup SiTration has completed a five-week propotype testwork... 


Resources Watch
Resources Watch
Updated 6 hours ago

This week: $870m ilmenite beneficiation project enters construction phase at Richards Bay IDZ; New longer-term platinum metal applications needed, Sibanye-Stillwater headlines and,... 


VBX's Wuudagu project location relative to other points of interest
Emerging bauxite producer VBX secures term sheet for offtake, prepayment facility
Updated 6 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

ASX-listed emerging bauxite producer VBX has secured an indicative term sheet for a A$10-million prepayment and offtake facility with materials distribution and supply chain service provider... 


Copper oxide mineralisation
Australian companies Maverick, Rincon form JV on West Arunta project
Updated 6 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

ASX-listed explorers Rincon Resources and Maverick Minerals Australia have entered into a binding heads of agreement to form a joint venture (JV) on Rincon's West Arunta copper/gold/rare... 


An employee carefully sorts rough diamonds at the GSS facility in Gaborone, Botswana
Sky Park streamlines De Beers’ diamond journey in South Africa
Updated 6 hours ago By: Lumkile Nkomfe

From the moment rough diamonds arrive from mine operations to the point they are presented for sale, diamond miner De Beers’ Sky Park facility, in Gauteng, has become the central point where... 


Springpole project
First Mining garners Canadian enviro approval for Springpole project
Updated 6 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX-listed First Mining Gold Corporation has garnered environmental approval from the Canadian federal government for its Springpole gold project, in Ontario. The $957-million Springpole project is... 


Teck Resources' QB mine, in Chile
Teck Resources confirms election window for shareholders now open ahead of Anglo merger
Updated 7 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

As global mining giants Teck Resources and Anglo American finalise a "merger of equals" plan of arrangement, Teck has mailed a letter of transmittal and election form to each registered holder of... 


Emerita drilling on Iberian Belt West project
Emerita delays PFS on Iberian Belt West project over optimisation testwork
Updated 7 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

Ahead of finalising a prefeasibility study (PFS) on the Iberian Belt West zinc/lead/copper/gold/silver project in Spain, TSX-V-listed Emerita Resources has identified several opportunities that... 


Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub concept image
Australia's Orica reaches final investment decision for Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub
Updated 7 hours ago By: Marleny Arnoldi

The world's largest mining-dedicated producer of sodium cyanide, Orica, has reached a final investment decision on the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub, in New South Wales. The development will comprise... 


Sierra Gorda mine
South32 proceeds with Sierra Gorda expansion project in Chile
1st July 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Diversified miner South32 says final investment approval has been garnered for the Sierra Gorda joint venture's fourth grinding line project following a feasibility study that confirmed the... 


Coal in rail wagons
US drives rise in global emissions as utilities turn back to coal, report shows
1st July 2026 By: Reuters

The US accounted for about a third of the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, as higher gas prices pushed power producers back to coal, an Energy Institute report showed on Tuesday.... 


US oil tank
US oil production rises to record high in April, EIA says
1st July 2026 By: Reuters

US crude oil production rose to 13.93-million barrels per day (bpd) in April, the highest on record, monthly data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Tuesday, as producers... 


The Hillside smelter in South Africa
South32 to sell most of its aluminium assets to Alcoa Corporation for up to $5.6bn
1st July 2026 By: Chanel de Bruyn

Diversified miner South32 has signed a binding conditional agreement to sell its aluminium value chain assets, including its interest in Worsley Alumina, in Australia, and Hillside Aluminium, in... 


A generic image of mineralised uranium
Neo Energy Metals advances uranium, gold project rollouts amid corporate restructuring
30th June 2026 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Aim-listed Neo Energy Metals has made progress across its New Beisa and Henkries uranium and gold projects, in the Free State and the Northern Cape, in South Africa, respectively, for the quarter... 


A generic image of a cobalt stone
Celsius Resources concludes sale of cobalt and copper asset in Namibia
30th June 2026 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

ASX-listed Celsius Resources has concluded a binding share sale agreement with Chinese State-owned mining, smelting and processing company Chinalco Mining for the sale of its 95% interest in the... 


Beyers Nel
Harmony production guidance met for eleventh consecutive year, highlighting operational consistency
30th June 2026 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

JSE- and NYSE-listed Harmony Gold has met its yearly production guidance for the eleventh consecutive year, with gold production expected to be between 1.4-million and 1.5-million ounces,... 


DRDGOLD's Regional Tailing Storage Facility.
DRDGOLD’s R8bn internally funded capital programme forging steadily ahead
30th June 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Gold-from-mine-waste company DRDGOLD is looking at organic growth of 40% in throughput and 30% in output, using internally funded cash flows and infrastructure that can facilitate additional... 


Diamba Sud gold mine
Fortuna delivers robust feasibility study for Senegal gold project
30th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

TSX-listed Fortuna Mining has announced positive results from the feasibility study for its Diamba Sud gold project, in Senegal, confirming an economically robust openpit conventional... 


Thungela maintains interim export guidance despite volatile coal markets
Thungela maintains interim export guidance despite volatile coal markets
30th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed Thungela Resources says it continues to monitor the impact of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East on its employees and the broader operating environment, noting that, to date, the... 


Monazite
US-based Atlantic Strategic Minerals confirms demo rare earths plant can come online in 12 months
30th June 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

US monazite developer Atlantic Strategic Minerals has confirmed a technically viable and rapid pathway to develop a domestic US rare earths processing facility from mineral sands. The company's... 


Polished diamonds
Congo signs diamonds deal with Swiss firm ADEX
30th June 2026 By: Reuters

The Democratic Republic of Congo has signed an agreement with Switzerland-based diamond and gemstone technology firm ADEX Platform for the marketing of Congolese diamonds, under which they will... 


Rough ruby at the Montepuez mine
Gilbertson to step down as Gemfields CEO; Mozambique mine facing challenges
30th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

Johannesburg- and London-listed gemstone miner Gemfields has informed shareholders that Sean Gilbertson will, by mutual agreement with the board, step down as CEO and as a director of the company... 


Rare earths material
Australian miner launches strategic review of rare earths project to focus on 'heavies'
30th June 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

ASX-listed Heavy Rare Earths Limited has launched a strategic review of its Cowalinya rare earths project in Western Australia with a focus on heavy rare earth oxides (HREO). The company has... 


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