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Lindian Resources raises $100M for Malawi rare‑earth project
Australian ASX‑listed Lindian Resources secured $100 million to fund the first stage of its Kangankunde Rare Earths Project in Malawi. The high‑grade deposit, rich in dysprosium and terbium, will be developed debt‑free, avoiding a previously planned $32 million loan and positioning Malawi alongside the DRC and South Africa as a rare‑earth hub.
Iron ore futures are set for their biggest weekly gain in over a year as China’s state‑backed buyer, the China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG), expands restrictions on BHP products. Singapore‑listed contracts rose more than 6 % this week, reaching nearly $109 a tonne, while Dalian and Shanghai prices also climbed. The curbs place BHP’s Newman, lumps and Mining Area C fines in the same prohibited category as the Jimblebar blend, prompting Chinese mills to shift stockpiles to plants. The move reflects CMRG’s growing control over roughly 70‑75 % of China’s iron‑ore imports.
A unit of Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), operating through its 51%‑owned subsidiary Boss Mining, urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop illegal mining after a landslide on its copper concession killed and injured workers. The slide, which occurred on...
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has pledged to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, turning the vital oil chokepoint into a geopolitical weapon. The International Energy Agency warns this blockade represents the largest supply disruption in oil market history,...
Barry FitzGerald spotlights Xpedra Resources (ASX:XPD) as a highly leveraged gold junior on the ASX, benefitting from gold prices above US$5,200 per ounce. The company, rebranded from Thunderbird, trades at 2.2 cents with a market cap of $12.6 million and is run...
The U.S. Treasury issued a one‑month OFAC wind‑down licence, allowing Russian crude already at sea to complete voyages through April 11. The licence is intended to stabilise energy markets amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis that has disrupted Gulf supplies. Broker...
Australian engineering firm Worley has been selected by Chevron to deliver front‑end engineering design (FEED) and procurement services for Cyprus’s inaugural offshore gas project, the Aphrodite field. The scope covers subsea systems, a floating production unit, export pipeline and onshore...
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) announced a multi‑layered technology drive to curb mineral leakages, featuring drone surveillance, mobile laboratories, and a new integrated digital platform that will let miners transact remotely and link with ZIMRA. The digital system...
Pan American Silver announced discovery of four new high‑grade silver veins—Filomena, Nicolasa, Bernardina and Josefina—at its La Colorada mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Drill hole S‑161‑25 intersected 1.03 m of ore grading 9,730 g/t silver and 6.19 g/t gold, and all holes returned silver...
Glencore CEO Gary Nagle sees the recent 26% jump in coal prices as a catalyst to revive talks with Rio Tinto on a $240 billion mega‑merger that previously stalled over valuation disputes. The surge has boosted Glencore’s share weight in a potential...
Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) released its latest gold buying rates for Zimbabwe on March 13, 2026. The fire‑assay cash price for gold above 100 g is $155.80 per gram ($4,845.72 per ounce), while SG 90 %+ gold commands $154.98 per gram. Prices decline...
The Green Grid’s Neural Network: Andrew Forrest’s Visionary Blueprint for an Intelligent Industrial Future - The landscape of the Pilbara is changing, not just the rust-red dust or the gargantuan scale of the iron ore pits that define the horizon...
QX Resources has digitised and re‑interpreted historic drilling data from Tanzania’s Madaba project, revealing multiple stacked roll‑front uranium horizons across the Luwegu Basin. The new model shows mineralised sandstone seams that thicken and coalesce, confirming significant uranium presence at four...
Energy Expert Anas Alhajji Reveals Truth Of Hormuz Closure, Says 'India ... https://t.co/dGuOAIsElS via @YouTube
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, still recovering from a U.S. strike, declared that Iran will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, leaving roughly 1,000 vessels stranded in the Gulf. While the closure is driven by political retaliation, insurers have confirmed that...
Belararox has added the 22 km² El Faro tenement to its TMT copper project in Argentina’s Vicuña District, extending the exploration corridor around the Toro South prospect. The new land adjoins Toro South, where drilling is testing a shallow epithermal target that...
Premier1 has completed a 16‑hole, 2,776‑metre reverse‑circulation drilling campaign at its Yalgoo gold project in Western Australia, focusing on Mt Kersey, Central Block, Carlisle and Crescent South prospects. The program targets a 500‑metre structural fault zone adjacent to the Wadgingarra maiden...
Methane-leaking, koala-threatening coal mine gets all-clear in state where renewables projects are in limbo #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/W2m9PXwwuO https://t.co/idcip5eygl
Canaccord Genuity raised its price target for Ausgold Ltd. to $3.00 while keeping a Speculative Buy rating, citing an updated definitive feasibility study for the Katanning Gold Project. The DFS forecasts an average annual production of 121,000 ounces over a...
On 12 March 2026 Anglo American’s Sishen iron‑ore mine in South Africa completed its Initiative for Responsible Mining (IRMA) surveillance audit. The audit, performed by IRMA‑approved firm ERM CVS, evaluated progress on the corrective‑action plan set after the initial audit. It confirmed that the...
Kingfisher Mining Limited and Broken Hill Mines Limited have signed a 10‑year cooperation agreement to process Kingfisher’s Copper Blow IOCG and Allendale projects at BHM’s 750,000‑tonne‑per‑year Rasp Mine plant. The deal removes the need for Kingfisher to build its own processing...
University of Adelaide researchers have created a low‑emission crusher, GRolls, that replaces traditional grinding in copper‑gold ore processing. Early trials show the system can reduce particle size to below 425 µm in a single pass while cutting energy use by roughly...
Korea Zinc in talks with US tech firms to extract rare earths from data center waste https://t.co/7xDhXEeStL
Greenfire Resources reported a 6% increase in full‑year sales volume, driven by a 48% surge in U.S. shipments and an 83% Q4 jump. Average selling price fell 9% YoY to $4,000 per metric ton, widening the Q4 net loss to...
Odyssey Gold announced high‑grade, shallow oxide mineralisation at its Tuckanarra project, highlighted by a 22.3‑metre interval grading 7.4 g/t gold. Alliance Nickel is evaluating vat leaching for its NiWest nickel‑cobalt development, a move that could slash the $310 million water‑infrastructure cost embedded...
Canada remains a premier mining jurisdiction, with Ontario and Saskatchewan ranking among the world’s top, second only to Nevada, according to the Fraser Institute. Toronto continues to serve as the global hub for mining finance, channeling roughly 30% of all...
The Canadian government has pledged $1.5 million to the Tłı̨chǫ Government to fund mineral exploration in the Northwest Territories. The funding supports a partnership with Australian mining giant Fortescue to assess lithium potential on Tłı̨chǫ lands. Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty described...
Macquarie Group warns that Indonesia's new nickel production quota could push the global market into a deficit this year. The December 2025 policy tightens supply to counter a glut, already lifting prices of nickel metal, nickel pig iron, nickel sulfate...
Canada Nickel is advancing the Crawford Nickel project in Timmins and actively seeking partners across government, First Nations, and peer mining firms. CEO Mark Selby highlighted the need to embed community value into a multi‑billion‑dollar venture. The company is also...
The Great Atlantic Salt Project, spearheaded by Atlas Salt Inc., will become North America’s first new underground salt mine in nearly three decades, located in western Newfoundland. It is designed to produce four million tonnes of high‑purity rock salt annually,...
Ten years after Berta Cáceres was murdered in 2016, a former DESA executive was sentenced for hiring the killers, while the Atala Zablah family that owned the hydropower firm remains at large. The case underscores Honduras' entrenched oligarchic power, which continues...
AI is being promoted across mining for exploration, but most tools deliver modest efficiency gains rather than breakthroughs. EY’s 2026 outlook shows 21% of miners intend to raise AI spending by over 20% despite limited returns due to siloed data...
BHP, now the world’s largest copper producer, is positioning Canada as a core part of its exploration strategy, signalling a long‑term commitment to the country’s copper assets. The miner’s CEO highlighted hopes for new investments over the next decade, while...
American Resources Corp.'s subsidiary Electrified Materials Corp. (EMCO) has added a new preprocessing line at its Indiana plant, expanding capacity to aggregate and condition magnet, copper, aluminum, ferrous metals and rare‑earth/critical‑mineral feedstocks. The conditioned materials are shipped to sister company...
Rio Tinto and Prysmian have completed an industrial trial producing low‑carbon aluminum rod by blending hydro‑powered metal from the Alma smelter in Quebec with aluminum made using Rio Tinto’s ELYSIS technology, which eliminates direct CO₂ emissions. The trial is part...
I don’t think Pennsylvanians understand how big of a deal this is for the health of our state. This would ultimately be a soft ban on fracking in the state. When comment periods open later this year, we have to...
VIDEO EXPLAINER: The most important map of the Third Gulf War — the oilfields, the Strait of Hormuz, and the bypass pipelines. Plus a look at how, two weeks into the war, Iran is still exporting lots of its oil,...
Eldorado Gold is on the cusp of cash‑flow generation as its $1 billion Skouries mine in Greece prepares for first concentrate production in early Q3 2026 and aims for commercial output by year‑end. The company is bolstering growth with a $2.2 billion...
Brent closes the day above $100 a barrel for the first time in three and a half years. Note: during the 2022 crisis, Brent settled above triple-digit level for 110 days. So far in 2026, just one day.
Saudi Arabia is booking more and more super oil tankers at sky high rates (>$450,000 a day vs pre-war levels of $100,000 a day) to shift crude from the Red Sea into global markets.
American Pacific Mining applied a “fugitive calcite” black‑light technique at its Madison copper‑gold project in Montana. Using ultraviolet scanning in newly exposed underground workings, geologists identified fluorescing calcite veins that contain trace manganese and lead. The fluorescence data, plotted on...
Bayhorse Silver $BHS.V $BHSIF Mobilizes Diamond Drill To The Bayhorse Silver Mine For A Minimum 2,000 Meter Underground Drill Program by @newsfile https://t.co/YNKuSkNh8x https://t.co/NZx3dJU5Ww
Rio Silver $RYO.V $RYOOF Great buy opp setting up here on Rio Silver with Silver still trading at $85/oz and the company going into production by year end ... https://t.co/FCYB1X4WaD
Cabral Gold announced drill results from the Jerimum Cima target in Brazil, highlighting a 9.5‑metre intercept grading 87.4 g/t gold, including 2.9 metres at 285.5 g/t, from 174 metres depth. The high‑grade zone appears to sit at the intersection of east‑west and northwest‑southeast structures...
Deputy Minister of Mines Eng Fred Moyo urged miners to decentralise technical education, moving knowledge from the Zimbabwe School of Mines in Bulawayo to district‑level training. He proposed sending lecturers to create local sub‑lecturers, emphasizing that skills development must precede new processing...
Anglo American rerouted three iron‑ore vessels after the Strait of Hormuz became impassable following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. The ships—Cape Shangrila, Cape Jasmine and Mineral Zimbabwe—were diverted to Singapore, Vietnam and China respectively. Vale experienced similar disruptions, sending...
Simon Stilwell, a veteran capital‑markets executive, has been appointed chairman of Resouro Strategic Metals Inc. He highlighted the scale and grade of the company’s flagship Tiros project in Brazil, which hosts titanium and rare‑earth minerals, as a key attraction. Stilwell...
Soma Gold has received its first shipment of mineralised rock from the newly formalised Diamantina Mine, marking the culmination of over five years of regulatory work. The mine is authorised to produce up to 40 tonnes per day and is...
Silver Bullet Mines Corp announced a strategic partnership with commodities‑trading firm Ocean Partners at PDAC 2026. The deal gives Ocean Partners access to Silver Bullet’s multi‑metal output—silver, gold, copper and lead—from a portfolio of Arizona and Idaho properties. The company’s...
Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU‑PF party announced a strategic push to transform the country from a raw lithium exporter into a full‑stack battery manufacturing hub. The plan highlights the recent attraction of four of the world’s top six lithium firms and the...
Trinity One Metals CEO Tom Wood highlighted the historic Silver‑1 Mine at PDAC 2026, noting it once produced roughly one million ounces of silver per year when prices were only $4. The underground operation boasted an exceptional grade of 927 grams per ton...
