Novelis, Infinitum Extend Collaboration in Norway
Aluminum producer Novelis and Norway’s deposit‑return foundation Infinitum have renewed their partnership to recycle beverage cans. Under Norway’s DRS, collected cans are shipped to Novelis’s Latchford plant in the United Kingdom for processing. The agreement secures a stable supply of post‑consumer aluminum, supporting Novelis’s Vision 3x30 target of 75% recycled content and emissions below 3 tons CO₂‑equivalent per ton by 2030. Both firms say the extension will improve logistics and further cut carbon emissions across the Norwegian can stream.
Positive Assay Results at Golden Eye Point to Growth in Indicated Resources
Cygnus Metals announced that infill drilling at the Golden Eye deposit of its Chibougamau copper‑gold project returned exceptionally high grades, including a 105.5 g/t AuEq intercept over 1 m and up to 11.9 % copper over 0.8 m. The drill program, which completed more than...
Oil’s 50% Surge Sparks Supercycle Talk but Risks Linger
Oil prices have surged more than 50 % since late February after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran prompted Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz, tightening global supply. The abrupt supply shock, combined with a fifth of LNG capacity offline,...
U.S. Is Most Resilient to the Energy Shock, Until It Isn’t
The seven‑week war in Iran has disrupted oil and gas flows, hitting Asia and Europe hard while the United States remains comparatively insulated. However, U.S. consumers are already feeling higher gasoline prices—over $1 per gallon—and a 3.3% year‑over‑year CPI increase...
LNG Shock, Coal Myths, & The Real Winners On The Grid
The March 2026 Hormuz LNG disruption did not trigger a global coal surge; instead, CREA’s real‑time data show fossil generation fell 1% year‑on‑year, with coal flat and gas down 4%. Outside China, coal dropped 3.5% while solar and wind grew...
Andromeda Wraps Early Works at Great White Project, Trims Equity Requirement for Stage 1A+ FID
Andromeda Metals has finished the early‑works program at its Great White kaolin project on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, establishing the site and cutting the equity needed for Stage 1A+ to roughly $40 million AUD (about $26 million USD). The work included bulk earthworks,...
Europe Eyes Canada LNG as Iran War Rewires Energy Routes
European energy buyers, led by Germany’s Uniper, are assessing Canada’s west‑coast Ksi Lisims LNG project as a diversification option amid the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruptions. The proposal involves shipping liquefied natural gas through the Panama Canal, a longer...
Aaron Longton, Fisherman Who Tied Sustainability to Survival
Aaron Longton, a Port Orford fisherman, pioneered a cooperative that linked small‑boat catches directly to consumers, boosting prices and transparency. He championed science‑based management and habitat protection, arguing that conservation underpins economic survival. His model, Port Orford Sustainable Seafood, demonstrated...
Gold Developer Antipa Shines Bright for Mining Experts as Investors Chase Next Big Thing
At the Resources Rising Stars Gather Round conference, analysts named Antipa Minerals the top gold pick, citing its updated Minyari resource of 2.9 Moz gold, 91 kt copper and 880 k oz silver. A recent scoping study projects Minyari could deliver about 128,000...
Asia Faces Strained Supply Lines and Volatile Energy Markets
Asia’s energy markets are under severe strain as Gulf crude shipments face weeks‑long delays and Atlantic imports remain uneconomic. A sustained oil price surge toward $200 per barrel would likely trigger government‑mandated rationing and demand‑reduction measures across the region. The...
Benue Valley Clay Supports Sustainable Ceramic Production
A study published in Scientific Reports confirms that clay deposits in Benue Valley, northern Cameroon, possess mineralogical and chemical properties suitable for high‑quality ceramic brick production. Laboratory tests showed that firing at 1000‑1100 °C increases bulk density to 2.07 g cm⁻³ and compressive...
Maximum Pressure Returns: U.S. Targets Shadow Fleet Tankers as Iran Oil Waiver Expires
The U.S. Treasury reinstated full "maximum pressure" on Iran by letting the 30‑day general license for stranded Iranian oil expire and sanctioning more than two dozen individuals, companies, and vessels tied to the Shamkhani shadow‑fleet network. The designations target a...
Grid Metals and Boliden Sign $10M Agreement for Thompson East
Grid Metals Corp. and Boliden Mineral Canada have signed a definitive option and joint‑venture agreement to explore the Thompson East copper‑nickel‑PGM‑cobalt project in northern Manitoba. Boliden can earn an 80% interest by funding roughly $7 million USD in cumulative expenditures and...
Shut Nova Scotia Mine May Hold $118M in Gold
St Barbara secured Nova Scotia approval to process roughly three million tonnes of ore from the idle Touquoy gold mine, targeting a revenue of CAD $118 million (US$86 million) at current $4,000‑per‑ounce gold prices. The 10‑14‑month operation will cost about CAD $11.4 million (US$8.3 million) and aims to...
Lawsuit Filed Against Mining Operation In Mojave National Preserve
The National Parks Conservation Association has filed a lawsuit to block Dateline Resources Ltd.’s mining at the historic Colosseum Mine in California’s Mojave National Preserve. The suit claims the Bureau of Land Management improperly allowed the mine to resume despite...
South Korea Has An Oil Problem. Canada Is Helping To Fix It
The Strait of Hormuz blockade has forced South Korea to look beyond the Middle East for crude, and Canada’s Trans‑Mountain Expansion (TMX) now ships oil to the Pacific, letting Korean refiners buy Western Canadian Select at about $10 per barrel...
Trump’s Waiver Of Jones Act Fails To Cool Oil Prices
President Trump issued a 60‑day Jones Act waiver hoping to shave a few cents off U.S. fuel costs, but oil prices remain elevated as global supply disruptions and rising crude costs dominate. Brent fell 4.2% to $95.09 per barrel and...
US DOE Selects Five Project to Restart Domestic Primary Gallium Recovery
The U.S. Department of Energy announced roughly $5.4 million in funding for five projects aimed at restarting domestic primary gallium recovery, a capability absent since 1987. The TRACE‑Ga initiative, managed by ENERGYWERX, will prototype novel extraction methods from waste streams, alumina...
Petrochemicals Lie at Core of Demand Destruction
The International Energy Agency says petrochemical feedstock demand fell by 1.5 million barrels per day in Q2 2026, driven by war‑related outages in the Middle East and costly run cuts across Asia. Gulf‑region plants face reduced operating rates and damaged export routes,...
Ancient Process that Created Rare Earth Elements Discovered — and It Could Help Us Locate Desperately Needed Deposits
Scientists have identified that most rare‑earth element (REE) deposits and their host alkaline or carbonatite magmas are situated above ancient subduction zones. By modeling plate‑tectonic history over the past two billion years, the study found 67% of alkaline magma blobs...
How Big Oil Is Cashing in on Iran War - The Latest
The world’s 100 largest oil and gas companies generated more than $30 million per hour in unearned profit during the first month of the US‑Israeli war on Iran. Crude prices averaged $100 a barrel in March, driving an estimated $23 billion windfall...
LaFleur and Trafigura Enter Into Term Sheet for C$30 Million Prepayment Facility and Gold Offtake Agreement
LaFleur Minerals has signed a term sheet with Trafigura Canada for a non‑dilutive prepayment facility of up to C$30 million (≈US$22 million) and a gold doré offtake agreement to fund the restart and expansion of its Beacon Gold Mill in Val‑d’Or, Québec....
Stena Drilling’s Drillship Finds Job in Greece
Stena Drilling has secured an exploratory drilling contract for its 2008‑built drillship Stena DrillMAX with Energean Hellas, marking Greece’s first deep‑water offshore well. The well, slated for early 2027 in Block 2 of the Northwestern Ionian Sea, will require managed pressure drilling....
Demand for Colombia LNG Shipments Set to Surge
Colombia’s power sector is gearing up for a sharp increase in LNG imports as an El Niño‑driven dry season threatens its hydropower‑dependent grid. Imports, currently 210 million cubic feet per day, are expected to climb to the SPEC terminal’s full 475 mcf/d capacity...
Iran War, Indonesia Curbs to Support Nickel Price: Report
BMI raised its 2026 refined nickel price forecast to $16,600 per tonne, up from $15,800, citing a structurally firmer market despite a persistent global surplus. Indonesia’s decision to cap nickel ore mining quotas at 260‑270 million wet metric tonnes, down from...
Silver Demand From PV Industry Expected to Drop 19% This Year
Metal Focus’s World Silver Survey 2026 shows the global silver market remains tightly constrained, with prices averaging $40 per ounce in 2025 and a fifth straight annual deficit of 40.3 million ounces projected for 2025 and 2026. At the same time,...
China’s Africa Strategy Is Shifting and Iran Conflict Will Speed It Up
China is pivoting its Africa strategy from resource extraction to investment, centering the effort in Hunan Province’s “Hunan Model.” The model, formalized through the China‑Africa Economic and Trade Deep Cooperation Pilot Zone and a dedicated exhibition, streamlines logistics, free‑trade zones,...
China’s CATL to Invest US$4.4 Billion in Mining Arm to Secure EV Battery Supply Chain
China’s battery leader CATL is earmarking 30 bn yuan (≈$4.4 bn) to launch a mining subsidiary that will consolidate existing assets and chase new mineral projects worldwide, securing raw‑material supply for its EV batteries and energy‑storage systems. The move follows a Q1...
WD-40 Braces for Iran War Impact on Supply Costs
WD‑40 warned that the Iran‑driven oil shock is raising the price of petroleum‑based specialty chemicals used in its formulas. The company said the cost increase will take 90‑120 days to filter through inventory and affect gross margins, with the first...
Why Sulfuric Acid Is Emerging as a Supply Chain Constraint in Copper
Sulfuric acid, traditionally a background chemical in copper production, is emerging as a tangible supply‑chain constraint. Trade disruptions in the Middle East, China’s abrupt export ban, and already weak smelter economics are converging to tighten acid availability. The pressure hits...
Loughborough University Targets the UK’s Critical Materials Sovereignty Gap
Loughborough University has partnered with Freemelt to deploy electron‑beam additive manufacturing (EBM) for processing refractory metals such as tungsten, niobium and tantalum, which are essential to next‑generation energy and defence systems. The vacuum‑based EBM platform overcomes laser‑related reflectivity and oxidation...
BASF and TSR Group Collaborate on Battery Recycling
BASF and the TSR Group announced a partnership to integrate battery‑dismantling, safe discharge, and black‑mass processing across Europe. TSR will contribute its network of more than 190 licensed waste‑management sites, while BASF adds its Schwarzheide recycling plant that produces black...
A2 Gold Outlines Antimony Potential at Nevada Project
A2 Gold Corp. disclosed new technical data highlighting significant antimony mineralization at its Taylor Gold‑Silver Project in Nevada. Historical production from two former antimony mines showed high‑grade ore, including 13 tons at 56% Sb in 1939 and 90 tons averaging 14% Sb...
Amid the Hormuz Crisis, Indonesia Rewrites Its Energy Playbook
Indonesia’s government responded to the Strait of Hormuz disruption with a two‑pronged strategy: domestic fuel subsidies and demand controls were kept steady while the president launched an intensive diplomatic tour of Japan, South Korea and Russia. The visits produced concrete...
Harmony's Eva to Use ABB Drives
Harmony Gold is moving ahead with its Eva copper‑gold project, a US$1.73 billion development that targets both copper and gold extraction. The mine will be equipped with ABB’s 24 MW gearless mill drive (GMD) and ring‑geared mill drive (RMD) technologies. While the...
Ascension Secures Funding for Geothermal Critical Mineral Recovery
Ascension, a UK geothermal developer, has secured a £670,490 Innovate UK grant and £1 million from UKI2S to fund a pilot plant that extracts critical minerals from geothermal brine. The project will focus on recovering rare earth elements, lithium and other strategic...
Pebble Plaintiffs Rebut DOJ Veto Brief
Northern Dynasty Minerals filed a reply brief in Alaska federal court challenging the EPA’s 2023 Pebble mine veto. The brief argues the agency’s decision conflicts with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Final Environmental Impact Statement, relies on a flawed...
Eagle Water Treatment Resumes for Spring
The Yukon government announced on April 13 that treated‑water discharge will resume at the Eagle Gold Mine, allowing the site to build storage capacity ahead of the spring melt. Since the 2024 heap‑leach pad failure, the mine, under PwC receivership,...
New Amalga PEA Outlines Juneau Gold Mine
Grande Portage Resources released its first preliminary economic assessment for the New Amalga gold project near Juneau, outlining a seven‑year underground mine with offsite processing. The PEA projects 1.05 million ounces of gold over life‑of‑mine, with after‑tax NPV of $721 million at...
Tongwei and Daqo Shares Rally on Polysilicon Regulatory Rumours, Prices Stay Depressed
Rumors of a closed‑door meeting in Chengdu to impose polysilicon production cuts sparked a sharp rally in Chinese PV stocks on April 13, with Tongwei up 7.9% and Daqo Energy nearly 8%. The benchmark polysilicon futures surged to RMB 34,770/ton (≈US$5,097),...
Foremost Clean Energy Drills High-Grade Unconformity Mineralization at Hatchet Lake South Project, Saskatchewan
Foremost Clean Energy reported 2026 drill results from the Hatchet Lake South uranium project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Five of ten holes intersected unconformity‑related mineralization, highlighted by 0.34% eU3O8 over 4.6 m, including a 1.0% eU3O8 core of 1.4 m. Step‑out drilling...
Doubleview Gold Corp. Announces Filing of Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report for the Hat Project
Doubleview Gold Corp. filed a NI 43‑101 technical report detailing its Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for the 100%-owned Hat polymetallic project in northwestern British Columbia. The PEA shows after‑tax NPV (5%) ranging from C$4.96 billion (≈$3.7 billion) to C$14.85 billion (≈$11 billion) and IRRs...
Norway Eyes Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery Projects to Boost Production
Norway’s Offshore Directorate (NOD) has launched a task force to fast‑track enhanced oil and gas recovery (EOGR) pilots on the mature Norwegian Continental Shelf. A prior Imperial College study put the theoretical upside at 350‑700 million standard cubic meters of oil...
Vår Energi Unveils $360 Million Investment in Barents Sea Field
Vår Energi announced a $360 million investment to modify the Goliat Gas Export (GGE) project in Norway’s Barents Sea, extending the field’s operational life to around 2050. The plan adds a 12‑kilometre gas export pipeline and connects the FPSO Goliat to...
Antofagasta Backs 2026 Goals Despite Copper Output Dip
Chilean miner Antofagasta reported an 8% drop in first‑quarter copper output to 143,000 tonnes, but net cash costs fell 30% to $1.08 per pound. The company kept its full‑year production guidance of 650,000‑700,000 tonnes and its $3.4 billion capital‑spending plan, citing...
New Episode: How Have Global Oil Supply Chains Shifted Around the Iran Conflict?
The latest Energy Technology episode examines how the US‑Israel‑Iran confrontation has reshaped global oil supply chains. With the Strait of Hormuz closed and U.S. blockades on Iranian tankers, Middle‑East exporters such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE have trimmed output...
Codelco in Talks with Hindustan Copper for Chile Copper Joint Venture
Codelco is negotiating a joint venture with Hindustan Copper Ltd. to develop an undeveloped Chilean deposit, with the partnership slated to involve more than $1 billion in capital. The deal would let Codelco share the financial burden of new projects, a...
PGMs, China’s Stockpiling Spur Mining Production Leap, Minerals Council Reports
South Africa’s mining sector posted a 9.7% year‑on‑year production rise in February 2026, propelled by a 52.3% surge in platinum‑group metals (PGMs) and Chinese stockpiling of chrome and manganese. Total mineral sales jumped 58.3% YoY to R78.6 billion (≈$4.1 billion), led by...
Malabar Marks Start of Longwall Mining at Maxwell Underground Coal Operation
Malabar Resources announced that the Maxwell Underground mine in New South Wales has produced its first full shears of coal using a longwall machine, marking the transition to the region’s largest long‑life longwall operation. The project, approved in December 2020,...
ABB to Deliver GMD, RMD Technology for Harmony’s Eva Copper Mine Project
ABB has secured a contract to supply its gearless mill drive (GMD) and ring‑geared mill drive (RMD) technology for Harmony’s Eva Copper Mine in Queensland. The 24 MW GMD will power a 12.2‑m SAG mill while an 18 MW variable‑speed RMD will...