Today's Mining Pulse
JERA receives first LNG cargo from Australia's Barossa gas project
JERA took delivery of its first liquefied natural gas cargo from the Barossa gas project, arriving at the Futtsu LNG terminal on June 12. The Barossa field can produce about 3.4 million tonnes of LNG per year, with JERA entitled to roughly 425,000 tonnes annually, expanding its diversified supply mix.
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By the numbers: Ganfeng invests $319M in Australian Mount Marion lithium mine
Gold Buying Prices in Zimbabwe per Gram/ Ounce, 19 February 2026
Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) released its official gold buying rates for Zimbabwe on 19 February 2026, quoting prices per gram and per troy ounce. The top tier – Fire Assay cash for gold above 100 g – is $152.01 per gram ($4,728.04 per ounce), while the SG 90 %+ category is $151.21 per gram. Lower purity brackets range from $149.61 to $144.01 per gram, translating to $4,653.39‑$4,479.22 per ounce. Prices are calculated using the standard conversion of 1 oz = 31.1035 g.
Local Firms to Spearhead Mutapa Gold’s $150m Shamva Expansion and Multi-Project Growth Plan
Mutapa Gold Resources announced a US$150 million redevelopment of its Shamva mine, with the project and subsequent expansions at Jena and Elvington to be executed primarily by Zimbabwean contractors and suppliers. The multi‑phase plan aims to convert Shamva into a low‑cost...
Ausgold Makes Connections with Katanning Noongar People
Ausgold has signed a cooperation agreement with the Katanning Noongar people, the Native Title holders of the Wagyl Kaip Southern region, to advance its proposed Katanning gold project in Western Australia. The company pledged to achieve a 5% workforce participation...
Kavango Declares Maiden 33,900oz Gold Resource at Bill’s Luck, Hillside Total Hits 52,900oz, Here Is Why
Kavango Resources announced a maiden JORC‑compliant mineral resource of 33,900 ounces of gold at the historic Bill’s Luck mine, raising the total Hillside Project resource to 52,900 ounces. The estimate includes 2,600 ounces measured at 3.3 g/t, 13,400 ounces indicated at...
Funding Floodgates Open for Gold Miners as Record Prices Inspire Cash Avalanche
Gold has surged to a record $5,000 per ounce, unleashing unprecedented cash flows into the mining sector. The rally enabled a $639 million takeover of Magnetic Resources by Genesis Minerals and a $175 million placement for Horizon Minerals, underscoring a wave of...
Critical Minerals Americas’ Denis Clement on Reviving a Multi-Billion-Tonne Black Shale Project in Alberta
Critical Minerals Americas (CMAI) is reviving its SBH Project in northeastern Alberta, a massive black‑shale deposit spanning roughly 38‑50 billion tonnes. The deposit hosts a suite of critical minerals—including molybdenum, nickel, uranium, cobalt, lithium and virtually all rare earth elements. CMAI...
Sibanye-Stillwater to Recognise R5.3bn in Impairments
Sibanye‑Stillwater will record R5.3 bn of impairments in the second half of its 2025 financial year, bringing total FY2025 impairments to R14 bn. The write‑downs stem from a R3.8 bn reduction at the Kloof gold mine and a R138 m impairment on the Keliber...
Antimony Price Spike Puts Critical Mineral in Spotlight as Jim Atkinson Advances Antimony Resources’ Bald Hill Project
Antimony Resources Corp. is accelerating development of its Bald Hill project after a serendipitous discovery of the Marcus Zone, a new stibnite‑rich mineralized area. The metal’s price has rocketed from roughly $12,000 to $60,000 per metric ton, driven by defense...
American Tungsten’s Ali Haji Says “It’s a Moly Porphyry with Tungsten-Silver-Rich Veins” As He Targets First Product Sales of Tungsten...
American Tungsten Corp. is moving its historic IMA Mine in Idaho toward commercial production, highlighting high‑grade tungsten‑silver‑molybdenum veins uncovered in recent drilling. The company reported intervals such as 31 ft at 0.48% WO₃ with 1.84 oz/ton silver and plans to complete an...
DRDGold Makes Light of R10bn Outlay with Record Dividend
DRDGOLD posted a record 50c interim dividend while financing its R10 billion Vision 2028 expansion entirely from free cash flow, despite a 9% dip in gold output. The company benefited from a $3,788‑per‑ounce gold price, which boosted revenue and lifted cash balances...
Zambia Lifts Suspension on Mopani’s Mufulira Mine After Safety Upgrades
Zambia’s Minerals Regulation Commission has lifted the week‑long suspension of underground operations at Mopani Copper Mines’ Mufulira mine after the company installed upgraded safety systems. The new measures include a real‑time personnel tracking platform, a two‑hour clearance verification process, and...
Glencore to Extend KCC in Land Deal with Gécamines
Glencore announced a lease agreement with DRC state miner Gécamines that secures additional land titles, extending the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) life of mine into the 2040s and targeting 300,000 tonnes of copper output by 2028. The deal follows a...
A Decade on, Lily Mine Rescue Remains Unresolved
The Lily Mine collapse in 2016 triggered a business rescue that has now stretched ten years without resolution. The mine remains closed, the three miners unrecovered, creditors unpaid, and no funding has been verified for revised rescue plans. The case...
Gold Buying Prices in Zimbabwe per Gram/ Ounce, 18 February 2026
Fidelity Gold Refinery published its official gold buying rates for 18 February 2026. Prices are quoted in US dollars per gram and per troy ounce, ranging from $148.79/gram ($4,627.89/oz) for 90%+ purity to $141.70/gram ($4,407.37/oz) for 5‑10 g samples. The fire‑assay cash price...
Pan African Dusts Off Historic Gold in Drive for Growth
Pan African Resources announced a maiden interim dividend of 12 South African cents per share, translating to a R280 million payout. The six‑month results showed earnings up 192% to US 0.073 per share, while net debt collapsed 69.3% to $46.2 million and cash...
Sandawana Production to More Than Double as Mutapa Energy Unveils US$250 Million Concentrator, US$36 Million Infrastructure Drive
Mutapa Energy’s Sandawana lithium mine will more than double its concentrate output to 162,000 tonnes in FY2026, a 122% increase over the prior year. The company has secured US$250 million to build a new concentrator plant, with construction slated to start...
Ten Years After the Worst Spill in Argentina’s History, Communities Express Concern About Fish Deaths Near Barrick's Veladero Mine
The Jáchal and Iglesias communities in northwestern Argentina reported thousands of dead silverside fish downstream of Barrick Gold’s Veladero mine in early November 2025. While Barrick and provincial officials claim no spill occurred, independent testing by the University of Cuyo...
Massive Silver Assets One Stock To Watch | Eloro Resources TSX: ELO – OTCQX: ELRRF
Eloro Resources (TSX:ELO, OTCQX:ELRRF) is an exploration and mine‑development firm focused on the Iska Iska silver‑tin polymetallic property in Bolivia's Potosí Department. The company touts the deposit as a potential giant, citing high‑grade silver and tin mineralization. Eloro remains publicly...
The Fallacy of European Rare Earth Prices
Over the past year European intermediaries have quoted rare‑earth oxide prices that are several times higher than the volume‑backed market rates, creating widespread confusion. Adamas Intelligence data shows that 75% of yttrium oxide, 96% of dysprosium oxide and 95% of...
Zambia’s Copper Industry Expands Amid Rising Global Demand and Investment
Global demand for copper, driven by AI, renewable energy and electric vehicles, is spurring a rapid expansion of Zambia’s mining sector. Since 2022, more than $12 billion has been poured into the industry, lifting 2024 output by roughly eight percent to...
InvestorTalk Alert: Christopher Berlet From Stakeholder Gold Corp. To Host on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 9:00 AM EST
Stakeholder Gold Corp. will host an InvestorTalk on February 18, 2026 featuring President, CEO and Director Christopher Berlet. The company controls a 930‑claim, roughly 18,500‑hectare Ballarat Gold‑Copper Project in Yukon’s White Gold District, adjacent to the proposed Northern Gateway Road. It recently received...
Sibanye-Stillwater Cuts Gold Reserves as Kloof Curtailed
Sibanye-Stillwater reported a 6.3% decline in gold mineral reserves, now standing at 9.4 million ounces, after a 1.4‑million‑ounce writedown at its Kloof mine. The broader South African gold resource base fell 25.5% to 36.4 million ounces, while platinum‑group metal (PGM)...
Scottie Drills 4.55m of 141 G/T Gold
Scottie Resources Corp. announced a spectacular 4.55 m intercept grading 141.2 g/t gold from the Fifi Vein within the Blueberry Contact Zone, part of its historic Scottie Mine project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle. The zone already hosts an inferred 3.6 Mt resource...
Li-FT Launches 2026 Drilling at BIG East
Li‑FT Power has kicked off a 6,770‑meter drilling campaign at its Yellowknife Lithium Project, concentrating on the BIG East spodumene pegmatite. The 2026 program includes 26 diamond holes, with 24 targeting the main dike corridor to depths of about 300 m. BIG East...
DOJ Filing Looms in Pebble Veto Fight
Northern Dynasty Minerals updated the court schedule for its Pebble mining lawsuit, noting that the Department of Justice must file a response brief by Feb. 17, 2026. The EPA’s 2023 Clean Water Act veto halted the project’s wetlands permit, prompting the...
Anson Resources to Commence Drilling at Yellow Cat Uranium-Vanadium Project, Utah USA
Anson Resources, through its Utah subsidiary UV1 Minerals, will begin a targeted drilling campaign at the Yellow Cat uranium‑vanadium project in early March 2026. The program will test roughly 2,500 metres of strike‑length mineralisation that has previously yielded surface assays of...
Resolution Minerals Expands Golden Gate Discovery with Broad Gold and Significant Tungsten Intercepts
Resolution Minerals announced that its 2025 drilling program at Idaho's Golden Gate prospects confirmed extensive near‑surface gold mineralization and identified a notable tungsten zone. Intercepts include more than 100 m of >0.35 g/t Au and a 21 m interval averaging 0.06% tungsten, expanding...
BIR World Mirror: Scrap Supply Tightness Boosts Steel Prices
The Bureau of International Recycling’s World Mirror report shows U.S. recycled‑steel prices rising as winter storms forced yard closures, tightening obsolete scrap inflows and bolstering export demand. Japan’s prices also firmed amid weak scrap generation and a depreciating yen. In...
Frank Basa on Nord Precious Metals’ 2.9 Million Ounce Silver Tailings Deal
Nord Precious Metals Mining Inc. has secured leases containing a historical 2.9 million‑ounce silver tailings resource in Ontario’s Gowganda camp, backed by an NI 43‑101 estimate and an 82% metallurgical recovery rate. The acquisition expands the company’s footprint adjacent to its Castle...
How to Lead Through Uncertainty: What Mining’s Hardest Decisions Reveal About Leadership
Mining’s inherent volatility forces leaders to prioritize organisational resilience over precise forecasting, according to a recent CIM dialogue. Former Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani and industry veteran Doris Hiam Galvez emphasized that adaptive structures, safety culture, and rapid decision‑making are essential...
Saskatchewan’s Rook I Mine Could Make Canada the World’s Largest Uranium Exporter
Canada is on the brink of becoming the world’s largest uranium exporter as NexGen Energy’s Rook I mine in Saskatchewan moves toward final approval by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. The project, located in the Athabasca Basin, is designed to...
Hard Landing
The episode examines President Trump’s EPA rule revoking the Obama-era "endangerment finding," which could dismantle federal climate regulation and spark years of litigation. It then shifts focus to California, where Governor Gavin Newsom is scrambling to mitigate the fallout from...
IRMA at UNEA-7
In November 2025 IRMA secured observer status at the United Nations Environment Assembly, granting it full access to UNEA’s deliberations. The initiative attended UNEA‑7 in Nairobi from 8‑12 December 2025, marking its first in‑person participation and involvement in plenary sessions,...
Reclaiming Coal Mine Wastelands: How Afforestation Is Rebuilding Soil From the Ground Up
A recent Scientific Reports study compared three afforestation approaches on hard‑coal post‑mining Technosols: succession on barren spoil, succession on reclaimed topsoil, and plantation on reclaimed topsoil. The research found that applying reclaimed topsoil markedly improved nutrient stocks, water‑holding capacity, and...
Green Creek Silver Reserve Growth Continues
Hecla Mining’s Greens Creek operation in Southeast Alaska added 2.4 million ounces of silver reserves in 2025, bringing its proven and probable reserves to 106.1 million ounces—about half of the company’s total. The company’s overall silver reserves fell roughly 4 % due to...
Fireweed, RRDC Sign Exploration Accord
Fireweed Metals Corp. has signed an exploration and collaboration agreement with the Ross River Dena Council (RRDC) that obligates the company to obtain free, prior and informed consent before advancing its Mactung tungsten and Macpass zinc‑lead‑silver projects in eastern Yukon....
From Ore to Order: Why Understanding China Is a Precondition for Working in Mining Today
In this episode the host explores Jonathan D. T. Ward’s book *China’s Vision of Victory* and its implications for the mining sector, especially critical minerals like lithium, rare earths, and copper. Ward argues that the Chinese Communist Party’s long‑term goal...
Unjust Energy Transition? Challenging the Critical Mineral Rush
London Mining Network is hosting an interactive workshop titled "Unjust Energy Transition? Challenging the Critical Mineral Rush" on Feb 22, 2026 in London. The event critiques the global surge in critical mineral extraction—lithium, copper, etc.—as a cornerstone of the green...
UNEP and IRMA Announce Collaboration to Advance Responsible Mining Practices
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen cooperation on responsible mining. The partnership targets improved transparency, environmental performance and traceability across the extractive sector, leveraging...
Kincora and AngloGold Ashanti Exploration Expands and Upgrades Nevertire with Drilling Recommenced
Kincora Copper and AngloGold Ashanti have completed Phase 1 drilling at the Nevertire and Nevertire‑South licences, confirming a large porphyry‑style copper‑gold system extending over more than 5.4 km. The results upgraded the immediate target zone, which remains open in all directions, and...
Pantera Completes First Modern Exploration Program at Historic US Silver–Antimony District
Pantera Minerals has finished the first modern rock‑and‑soil geochemical survey at its Gillham Silver‑Antimony Project, covering roughly 5,000 acres with 1,408 soil and 47 rock samples now in assay. The program marks the inaugural systematic exploration of a historic U.S....
Diablo Identifies Silver–Antimony Drill Targets in Utah as Copper Mineralization Confirmed at Phoenix Project
Diablo Resources has earmarked high‑grade silver‑antimony drill targets at its Star Range Project in Utah and confirmed shallow copper mineralisation at the Phoenix Copper Project. A ground‑based DDIP survey will map the STAR‑01 magnetic anomaly to guide maiden drilling, following...
The Mineral Imperative: How and Why China Became a Metals and Minerals Superpower
The episode traces how China transformed from a post‑1949 poverty-stricken nation into the world’s dominant metals and minerals superpower through a deliberate, century‑long strategy that placed mining, processing, and heavy industry at the core of national sovereignty. It outlines three...
Uranium Exposure in Children Near Johannesburg Mine Tailings Raises Public Health Concerns
Researchers measured uranium in soil and children’s hair near Johannesburg gold‑mine tailings, revealing markedly higher exposure than a non‑mining reference site in Durban. Median hair uranium was 17.07 µg/kg versus 8.12 µg/kg, while residential soil showed a 10% concentration increase. Girls and...
How AI and Advanced Sensing Are Giving Miners X-Ray Vision
A new wave of AI‑driven analytics combined with advanced sensing—such as hyperspectral imaging, LiDAR, and ground‑penetrating radar—is giving mining companies unprecedented visibility into the subsurface. These technologies fuse massive data streams from drones, satellites, and on‑site sensors to predict ore...
Senegal’s Landmark IRMA-Assessed Mine: A New Era for Responsible Mining in Africa
Eramet’s Grande Côte mine in Senegal has become the first West African operation to earn Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) certification, marking a historic milestone for the region. The mobile mineral‑sand facility met IRMA’s rigorous standards covering environmental stewardship,...
Mountain Province Pauses Tuzo Phase 3
Mountain Province Diamonds announced a pause on the Tuzo Phase 3 development at its Gahcho Kué mine, citing weak diamond prices and rising costs. The joint‑venture partners are refocusing capital on higher‑grade feed from the NEX pipe to safeguard liquidity. The decision...
Banyan Defines Deeper Airstrip Gold
Banyan Gold Corp. released 2025 drilling results from its Aur Mac project in the Yukon, showing high‑grade gold mineralization that extends both within the existing pit and at depth beneath the Airstrip deposit. The infill and step‑out holes returned intervals such...
Particle Accelerators: From Magnets to Medical Breakthroughs Brought to You by Rare Earths
Particle accelerators have become essential tools in science, industry, and medicine, and rare earth elements are the hidden enablers that make modern machines smaller, more efficient, and precise. High‑field permanent magnets built from neodymium, praseodymium and heavy REEs such as...
Port Mac Poised as AK Mineral Export Hub
A new study commissioned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) identifies Port MacKenzie as the state’s optimal hub for expanding mineral exports. The port’s extensive undeveloped land, direct highway connections and a planned 32‑mile rail extension give...