Bangladesh Sees Rise in Ray, Shark Fishing as Traditional Seafood Species Dwindle
Bangladesh has seen a sharp rise in illegal shark and ray fishing as catches of traditional seafood species decline. Lower prices and growing export markets for dried fins and skins have made these protected species attractive to impoverished coastal fishers. Authorities recently seized 400 kg of stingrays and detained 22 fishers, highlighting enforcement gaps despite the 2012 Wildlife Act prohibiting such catches. Conservation groups blame weak law enforcement and lack of fisher awareness, calling for stricter measures and subsidies.
Uganda: Stakeholders Raise Concerns Over Mining Licensing Delays, Mineral Royalty Gaps
Uganda’s mining sector is grappling with prolonged licensing delays and opaque royalty collection, prompting stakeholders at the Annual Tax Dialogue to warn of rising informal mining. Despite gold exports exceeding $5 billion annually, licensed operations remain scarce, contributing only 1.9% of...
Metso and Loesche Unveil VRM Dry Grinding Solution
Metso and Loesche have formed an exclusive partnership to launch a vertical roller mill (VRM) dry‑grinding solution for mineral processing. The system promises substantial energy savings, lower operating costs and simplified process flows by replacing HPGRs, horizontal mills and stirred‑mill...
Victory Metals Strengthens Technical Team to Advance North Stanmore
Victory Metals has appointed four internationally recognised technical experts—Ken Baxter, Scott Atkinson, Dr Ludovic Dumée and Peter Hedley—to its North Stanmore heavy rare earths project. The new hires complement existing leaders Professor Ken Collerson and CTO Dean O’Keefe, bringing deep...
Verity Rolls in High-Grade Gold at Monument Ahead of Resource Update
Verity Resources announced high‑grade gold intercepts from its final infill drilling campaign at the Monument project in Western Australia. The 29 RC holes delivered grades as high as 5.41 g/t over 2.4 m, confirming strong continuity across the Waihi and Korong deposits....
Large Antimony System at Play with New Drilling Targets for RMX
Red Mountain Mining (RMX) reported high‑grade antimony results from its Oaky Creek target in the Armidale project, including a 28.1% antimony assay 600 m north‑northwest of Oaky Creek South. Earlier work had returned up to 39.3% antimony and 1.09 ppm gold across...
Dreadnought Begins RC Drilling at Illaara Gold Project
Dreadnought Resources has launched a reverse‑circulation (RC) drilling program at the Metzke’s Find prospect within its wholly‑owned Illaara gold project in Western Australia. The campaign will drill about 60 holes covering roughly 4,900 metres to extend the current 14,900‑ounce, 6.8 g/t resource...
Lodestar Spots Copper Sulphides in Drill Core From Maiden Hole at Three Saints
Lodestar Minerals reported visible copper sulphides, including chalcopyrite, pyrite, molybdenite and magnetite, in its maiden diamond drill hole at the Three Saints project in Chile, intersecting intervals from 190 m to 600 m depth. The increasing concentration of these IOCG‑style minerals suggests...
Novelis’ Aluminum Sheet Receives Recognition
Novelis Inc. earned the 2026 Münchner Management Kolloquium Award of Excellence for an aluminum sheet produced entirely from end‑of‑life vehicle scrap, targeting exterior car‑body applications. The award highlights the technical feasibility of car‑to‑car recycling and the company’s push toward a...
Ghana: Rebalancing of Gold Reserve Not Loss of National Asset - Governor
Ghana’s central bank announced a rebalancing of its international reserves, converting a portion of its gold holdings into foreign exchange. The move follows a Domestic Gold Purchase Programme that lifted gold stocks from 8.7 tonnes to over 40 tonnes, with a 62%...
A Glimpse Into the Rare Earth Riches of Greenland
Greenland’s Kvanefjeld deposit, rich in rare earth elements, is attracting global mining interest. A recent photo by Jonas Kako captures sodalite stones at the site glowing under ultraviolet light, highlighting the mineral’s visual appeal though it holds no commercial value....
Stantec to Lead DFS for US$2.37 Billion Kingking Copper-Gold Project
Stantec has been appointed by St Augustine Gold & Copper Ltd to lead the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the Kingking copper‑gold project in Mindanao, Philippines. The greenfield development is valued at US$2.37 billion and contains roughly 960 Mt of copper‑gold reserves....
New ASGCO® Belt Lifter Model for Larger Conveyors
ASGCO introduced a new Belt Lifter model designed for 48‑72‑inch (1,200‑1,800 mm) conveyor belts. The unit accommodates stringer widths from 56.5 to 86.5 inches, weighs 47.2 kg, and offers a closed height of 216 mm with a maximum lift of 482 mm. Built with rugged...
North America Drops 8 Rigs WoW
Baker Hughes reported that the North America rig count slipped to 756 this week, eight rigs lower than the previous week. The U.S. portion rose slightly to 551 rigs while Canada fell to 205, driving the regional decline. Oil rigs...
Offshore Lease Bidding Falls Off a Cliff in Trump’s Second ‘Big Beautiful’ Gulf Sale
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s second "Big Beautiful Gulf" auction (BBG2) yielded $46.98 million in high bids, a steep decline from the $279.4 million generated in the inaugural sale. Only 38 bids from 13 firms covered 25 blocks on roughly 141,000...
Titan Mining Starts Graphite Shipments, Feasibility Study
Titan Mining has begun shipping graphite concentrate from its Kilbourne demonstration plant in New York, marking the first U.S. graphite output in decades. The demo facility, capable of 1,200 tonnes per year, has produced roughly 1,600 kg and is supplying customers for...
World’s Top Bauxite Producer Considers Export Curbs After Supply Glut Leads to Price Slump
Guinea, now the world’s largest bauxite producer, is weighing export curbs as a glut has driven prices down roughly 50% since January 2025. Export shipments surged 25% to 183 million tonnes last year, far exceeding licence‑based production plans. The government is...
Maersk Forced to Ship Fuel From US, Europe as Asia Bunkers Start to Run Dry
Maersk has begun sourcing marine fuel from the United States and Europe to supply its Asian fleet, after recent disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz left key Middle‑East and Asian bunkering hubs unable to meet demand. Chief commercial officer Karsten...
Teck, Korea Zinc Agree Benchmark Zinc Concentrate TCs at $85 per Tonne
Teck and Korea Zinc have set the benchmark zinc concentrate treatment charge (TC) at $85 per tonne, a $5 increase from the previous level. The agreement introduces a payable for germanium and revises the silver payable, though sources disagree on...
How Canadian Mining Can Be Great Again
Canada’s mining landscape is shifting as Manitoba approved an amended licence for a First Nation‑owned critical minerals project, signaling stronger provincial support for Indigenous participation. A new ICMM report highlighted that steel and aluminium production remain the sector’s biggest emission...
Faraday Copper Closes $100 Million Private Placement
Faraday Copper Corp. completed a $100 million private placement, issuing 23.8 million shares at $4.20 each, backed by strategic investors including the Ludin Family Trust and a BHP unit. The capital will fund the Copper Creek project in Arizona and support a...
Latest Banyan Assays Refine Airstrip Gold
Banyan Gold Corp. announced new high‑grade gold intercepts from the Airstrip deposit at its AurMac project in Yukon, including 6.80 g/t Au over 9.3 m and 1.49 g/t Au over 8.8 m. The latest drilling refines the geometry of the intrusion‑related system and supports...
Draslovka to Supply Sodium Cyanide to Barrick Mining’s Nevada Gold Mines
Draslovka a.s. has signed a multi‑year agreement to supply sodium cyanide (NaCN) to Barrick Mining’s Nevada Gold Mines, the United States’ largest gold operation. The chemical will be 100% U.S.-produced at Draslovka’s Memphis facility, the world’s largest NaCN plant, and...
Ferreyros on Ongoing Partnerships with Toromocho and Antapaccay
Ferreyros continues its strategic alliance with Minera Chinalco Peru, supporting the digitalisation of mining through the Integrated Operations Management (GIO) Center in Lima that remotely controls the Toromocho copper mine. The partnership introduced Caterpillar’s autonomous MD6640 electric drills and the...
Australian Governments Subsidising Fossil Fuel Use by More than $30,000 a Minute, Analysis Finds
Australian federal and state governments will spend $16.3 bn subsidising fossil fuels in 2025‑26, equivalent to $31,020 each minute, according to the Australia Institute. The subsidies are set to grow 9.4%, outpacing the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s 7.6% increase. The federal...
South Africa’s Economic Growth Undershoots Expectations
Africa is confronting a cascade of economic shocks and policy pivots. A three‑year study links CMOC’s cobalt expansion in the DR Congo to severe respiratory illness and stillbirths, while Ethiopian Airlines reported a $137 million loss in a single week due to...
Samancor Presses Ahead with Job Cuts Despite Eskom Deal
Samancor Chrome announced plans to retrench roughly 2,400 employees across its smelting plants and corporate offices. The move comes even after South Africa’s government and Eskom agreed to lower electricity tariffs for ferrochrome producers to 62 cents per kilowatt‑hour. The...
Questcorp Mining Completes IP Survey at BC’s North Island Copper Project
Questcorp Mining has finished a 12.8‑kilometre induced polarisation (IP) survey across the Marisa Zone of its North Island Copper Project in British Columbia. The new geophysical data will be merged with a 1992 IP survey to produce a 3‑D inversion...
Danielle Smith: There Is No Global Energy Security without Canadian Energy
Premier Danielle Smith argues that global energy security cannot be achieved without Canadian energy supplies. She points to Canada’s 177 billion barrels of recoverable oil, valued over $12 trillion, and proposes doubling output to eight million barrels per day by 2035. Smith...
Montero Completes Exploration Programs at Potrero Gold Project and Advances Data-Driven Targeting Strategy
Montero Mining announced the completion of a comprehensive data compilation and exploration program at its Potrero gold project in Chile's Maricunga Belt. The effort integrated historic magnetic data, new IP/resistivity surveys, high‑resolution geochemical sampling, and AI‑assisted modelling to refine the...
OneSubsea Bags Third PTTEP Subsea Systems Contract in One Year
OneSubsea, the SLB‑Aker Solutions‑Subsea 7 joint venture, won an EPC contract from PTTEP for subsea production systems at the Kikeh 3B Phase 2 deep‑water project offshore Malaysia. The award includes three subsea trees, a manifold, a distribution unit and integrated control systems, with...
Ethiopia: PM Abiy Calls for Mapping Ethiopia's Natural Wealth After Nasiol Cave Visit
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed toured the Nasiol Cave in eastern Ethiopia and called for an urgent, scientific mapping of the nation’s natural and mineral wealth. He highlighted the cave’s striking marble‑like stalactites and the surrounding deposits of marble, granite, and...
Titan Minerals Strengthens Dynasty Project Scale with New Porphyry Mineralization
Titan Minerals announced that its 2025 drilling at the Kaliman target of the Dynasty Gold Project in southern Ecuador intersected extensive gold‑silver‑copper porphyry zones, including a 159.9 m intercept at 0.7 g/t AuEq. The mineralized body spans roughly 500 m of strike, 350 m...
South Africa: Government Reviews Appeals for Offshore Oil, Gas Exploration Projects
South Africa’s Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, announced that the government will move forward with determining appeals against offshore oil and gas exploration authorisations, ending a period of deferral. The appeals were filed under section 43 of...
Petrobras’ P-78 FPSO Achieves Gas Injection Milestone in Búzios Field
Petrobras’ P‑78 FPSO recorded its first gas injection on March 2, 2026, just 61 days after achieving first oil on December 31, 2025. The milestone moves the vessel toward full operational readiness and expands output at the deep‑water Búzios field in Brazil’s Santos Basin. Seatrium...
Higher-Grade Gold Drilled at Golden Summit
Freegold Ventures reported new high‑grade drill intercepts at its Golden Summit project in Alaska, confirming mineralized corridors within the Dolphin‑Cleary resource. Holes GS2539 and GS2542 returned up to 13.5 g/t Au over narrow intervals, while other holes averaged between 1.7 and...
TotalEnergies, Repsol and Shell Bring Lapa South-West Online Off Brazil
TotalEnergies, together with Repsol and Shell, has placed the Lapa South‑West development into production in Brazil’s Santos Basin. The three‑well subsea tie‑back to the existing Lapa FPSO adds roughly 25,000 barrels of oil per day, lifting total field output to...
Eco Atlantic Augments Oil & Gas Portfolio with New Acquisition
Eco Atlantic has agreed to acquire the remaining shares of JHI Associates for approximately $52.3 million, issuing up to 96.3 million new common shares that could represent about 21.8% of its post‑transaction capital. The deal grants Eco a 35% working interest in...
Nordec to Build Processing Plant Structure for Viscaria Copper Mine
Nordec has signed an agreement with Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria to build the processing plant structure for the Viscaria copper mine in Kiruna, Sweden. The scope covers groundworks, foundations, a steel‑and‑concrete frame and the building envelope for a 14,000 sqm facility designed for...
Equinor to Supply Bio-Methanol to Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s Vessels
Equinor has signed a two‑year agreement to supply ISCC‑EU certified bio‑methanol to Wallenius Wilhelmsen for its new dual‑fuel vessels. The fuel, produced at Tjeldbergodden and blended with biogas certificates, will be delivered at Zeebrugge and Antwerp and claims a 95 % CO₂...
New Job on ExxonMobil’s Seventh Oil Project Takes ABL to Guyana
ABL Group has secured a marine warranty survey contract for ExxonMobil’s Hammerhead development, the seventh offshore project in Guyana’s Stabroek block. The $6.8 billion venture will install 18 subsea wells and a spread‑moored FPSO, targeting 120,000‑180,000 barrels per day by 2029....
Liebherr Chile Delivers PR 776 G8 Mining Dozers to SQM Nueva Victoria Iodine Mine
Liebherr Chile has supplied and commissioned two PR 776 G8 mining dozers equipped with its LiReCon teleoperation system for SQM's Nueva Victoria iodine mine in northern Chile. The dozers, the largest hydrostatic models on the market, have demonstrated strong pushing...
Uranium Energy’s Bull Case Is Starting to Look Real
Uranium Energy Corp reported Q2 FY2026 production costs in the low $40s per pound while selling at roughly $101, creating a clear profit margin. The company is establishing a domestic refining and conversion subsidiary, positioning it as the only vertically...
Jindal Steel Emerges Preferred Bidder for Odisha’s Thakurani-A1 Iron Ore Block
Jindal Steel has been declared the preferred bidder for Odisha’s 202‑hectare Thakurani‑A1 iron‑ore block, securing the asset at a 101.20% premium. The block, part of a December 2025 auction of 12 virgin mineral blocks, contains roughly 50 million tonnes of iron‑ore resources....
Brazil Project a ‘Major Opportunity’ to Replicate Rainbow’s South African Successes
Rainbow Rare Earths announced an economic assessment for its Uberaba project in Brazil, partnering with US fertilizer giant Mosaic to extract rare‑earth elements from phosphogypsum waste. The study projects a post‑tax NPV of $916 million, a 45% IRR, $217 million annual EBITDA...
Deepwater Energy Project Duo in Angola and Brazil Getting Exail’s Subsea Tech
Exail secured contracts to provide its long baseline (LBL) subsea positioning systems for two deep‑water energy projects in Brazil and Angola. Over 70 acoustic transponders and integrated navigation suites will support operations at depths up to 4,000 m. The hybrid acoustic‑inertial...
Sunlight-Activated Graphene Membrane Recovers Battery-Grade Lithium From Brines
Researchers at POST, Griffith and King Khalid Universities unveiled a graphene‑based nanofiltration membrane that uses sunlight to pull lithium ions from magnesium‑rich brines. The hybrid membrane, combining edge‑functionalized graphene nanoribbons with photothermally reduced graphene oxide, delivers a lithium flux of...
Westgold Approves Expansion of Higginsville Processing Hub
Westgold Resources’ board approved a $145 million final investment decision to expand the Higginsville Processing Hub from 1.6 mtpa to 2.6 mtpa. The upgrade adds a new primary crusher, a 5.8 MW SAG mill and extra leaching capacity, targeting an extra 60,000 oz of gold...
Critical Metals to Advance Tanbreez Project in Greenland
Critical Metals has approved a $30 million acceleration programme to move its Tanbreez heavy rare earth project in Greenland toward production, targeting ore output by late 2028 and concentrate exports in Q3 2029. The plan allocates $12.5 million to exploration, up to...
Inside the Mining Lobby Attack on Key EU Water Law
The EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) faces a coordinated push from the mining lobby to dilute its protections ahead of a scheduled review. DeSmog’s analysis shows mining‑related meetings with Commission officials surged from 30 in 2024 to 108 in 2025,...
