Intrepid Potash Sells South Ranch for $70M
Intrepid Potash Inc. announced that its New Mexico subsidiary has signed a $70 million Asset Purchase Agreement with HydroSource Logistics to sell the majority of the Intrepid South Ranch. The deal transfers roughly 21,793 acres of fee land, 27,858 acres of federal grazing leases, water rights and related agreements. Proceeds will be used to reinforce financial flexibility and fund core Trio® potash operations. The company says the sale lets it focus on high‑return assets and return excess capital to shareholders.
Soma Gold Submits Permit Application for Nechí Project
Soma Gold Corp has filed a PTO (Permiso de Trabajo de Obra) mining permit for its Nechí underground project in Bolívar, Colombia. The Nechí deposit is slated to deliver 250 metric tons per day of ore to the El Bagre...
Egypt Agrees to Buy Full Output From Cyprus’ Aphrodite Gas Field
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. signed a preliminary agreement to purchase the entire output of Cyprus' Aphrodite offshore gas field once it begins production around 2031. The deal includes a framework to build an offshore transmission system operated by a...
Tin Surge Helps Alphamin to Record Earnings but Fuel Hike Looms
Alphamin posted record earnings for the March quarter, driven by a 30% quarter‑on‑quarter rise in tin prices that lifted EBITDA 48% to $158 million and generated $128 million of cash. All‑in sustaining costs climbed 7% to $17,968 per ton due to higher...
Aluminum Stocks Extend Breakouts Amid Iran War. Alcoa Earnings Due.
Aluminum stocks surged as Iranian missile strikes forced key Middle‑East smelters offline, tightening global supply. JPMorgan projects prices climbing toward $4,000 per ton, fueling earnings optimism for producers such as Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum, and Indian heavyweights Hindalco and Vedanta. Alcoa’s...
Argentina Approves Milei’s Bill that Eases Protections for Glaciers Despite Environmental Backlash
Argentina’s Congress approved President Javier Milei’s bill loosening glacier protections to enable mining investments. The legislation passed 137‑111‑3 and could unlock more than $30 billion over the next decade, primarily for copper, gold and silver projects. Protection is now limited to glaciers...
Solaris Secures EIA Technical Approval and Further Strengthens the Balance Sheet
Solaris Resources announced that the Environmental Impact Assessment for its Warintza copper‑porphyry project in Ecuador has received technical approval, a key permitting milestone that markedly de‑risks the development. The approval unlocks the second $50 million tranche of a $200 million financing agreement...
Pacgold Delivers First Gold Production at White Dam
Pacgold Ltd announced maiden gold production at its White Dam project, recovering roughly 2 kg (60 oz) of calcined gold in the first 14 days after a plant recommissioning. The re‑crushing circuit is now processing about 1,500 tons of ore per day, with...
US Lithium Miner to Go Public Following $571M SPAC Deal
Australian miner Jindalee Lithium is creating US Elemental through a $571 million SPAC merger with Constellation Acquisition Corp. I, rolling over its 100% stake in HiTech Minerals. The new Nasdaq‑listed entity (ticker ULIT) will control the McDermitt lithium deposit—21.5 million tonnes of...
Iran Energy Shock Tests Limits of Trump’s Vision of US Energy Dominance
President Trump claims U.S. energy dominance despite Iran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade, yet gasoline prices surged to over $4 per gallon, costing households $8.4 billion in a month. The United States, while a net exporter, still imports roughly 6 million barrels of...
How the Global Energy Crisis Is Shaking Canada From Coast to Coast — and Could Leave a Lasting Legacy
The Iran‑Israel conflict has choked the Strait of Hormuz, driving global oil prices above $90 a barrel and prompting Canadian firms to scramble for supply. Irving Oil secured regulator approval to use a foreign tanker to import up to 680,000...
Terex Delivers a New High-Capacity Sand Washing Solution in a Compact Footprint
Terex Washing Systems unveiled the FM 300 Compact, a sand‑washing plant capable of delivering up to 300 tonnes per hour of dewatered sand from a single modular chassis. The machine fits within a 10.13 m × 5.36 m × 8.69 m footprint, integrating a collection tank, rubber‑lined hydrocyclones, a high‑frequency...
Argentina Passes Bill to Expand Glacial Mining
Argentina’s lower house approved a reform bill that overturns the 2010 Glacier Law, allowing mining in glacial and permafrost zones of the Andes. The Chamber of Deputies voted 137‑111 with three abstentions after a 12‑hour debate, following Senate approval in...
Rockland Resources Completes Expanded 5,300-Metre Drill Program at Cole Gold Mines Project, Red Lake, Ontario
Rockland Resources completed a 5,300‑metre diamond drill campaign at its 100%‑owned Cole Gold Mines project in Ontario, drilling 19 holes and intersecting visible gold across multiple depths. The program expanded from an initial 3,000‑metre plan to test the rheological contact...
DRC Quota Extension Eases Cobalt Supply Concerns, but Market Reaction Muted
The Democratic Republic of Congo extended its cobalt export quota deadline by an additional 30 days, moving the Q4 2025 cutoff to the end of Q1 2026. CMOC, the world’s largest cobalt producer, said the extension will let it ship its full...
Philippi-Hagenbuch Upgrades Truck Bodies with 500 Tuf Floors for Enhanced Durability
Philippi-Hagenbuch announced that all its custom HiVol® haul‑truck bodies will now feature floors made from SSAB Hardox 500 Tuf steel. The 500 Tuf alloy, with a Brinell hardness of 500, is designed to resist abrasion and impact, extending floor service life up to...
NioCorp Lines up Traxys as Potential Buyer for Elk Creek’s Planned Output
NioCorp Developments has entered a non‑binding agreement with commodity trader Traxys to serve as the exclusive offtake and marketing partner for the remaining output of its Elk Creek critical‑minerals project in Nebraska for an initial ten‑year term. The deal adds...
Iron Ore Slips on Signs of BHP-China Thaw
Iron ore prices fell to a one‑month low after Bloomberg reported that BHP’s incoming CEO, Brandon Craig, visited Beijing. The visit sparked speculation that the long‑running pricing dispute between BHP and China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) may be easing. Futures...
G Mining to Buy G2 Goldfields for $2.2B in Guyana Play
Canadian miner G Mining Ventures announced a C$3 billion all‑share acquisition of rival G2 Goldfields, creating a combined Oko district in Guyana. The deal offers G2 shareholders 0.212 G Mining shares per G2 share, a 72% premium, and adds a new...
West Point Gold Drilling at Sheep Trail, Gold Chain Project, Arizona
West Point Gold Corp announced initial drill results from the Sheep Trail target at its Gold Chain Project in Arizona, intersecting shallow gold mineralization with intervals up to 32 metres grading around 1‑2 g/t Au. The strike length exceeds one kilometre, suggesting...
IMDEX Acquires 100% Stake in Krux Analytics
IMDEX has completed the acquisition of 100% of Krux Analytics, a provider of advanced drilling‑site data capture and analytics software. The deal brings Krux’s real‑time drilling analytics platform under IMDEX’s downhole sensor technology (DST) portfolio, creating a unified solution for...
New Oil Discovery Comes to Light in Gulf of America
Occidental (Oxy) announced a new oil discovery at the Bandit prospect in the Gulf of America, roughly 125 miles south of the Louisiana coast. The exploration well in Green Canyon Block 680 intersected high‑quality, full‑to‑base Miocene oil‑bearing sands. Oxy operates the...
KwaZulu-Natal Mineral Sands Mine Powered by New Limpopo Solar Plant
A 148 MW Bolobedu Solar Farm, built by Voltia and local empowerment partners, has begun feeding green electricity into South Africa’s grid to power Rio Tinto’s Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) in KwaZulu‑Natal. The plant will slash RBM’s baseline emissions by at...
Barrick Signals Deal Push Amid Strategic Reset
Barrick Gold is reversing a decade‑long expansion strategy by refocusing on acquisitions in low‑risk, tier‑one gold assets and exiting higher‑risk regions. Chairman John Thornton, in his first shareholder letter since the CEO change, said the company believes its shares are...
USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication Releases Season Three of Its Energy Transition Podcast
Season three of USC Annenberg’s Electric Futures podcast returns to California’s Imperial Valley, shifting focus from stalled lithium extraction to the arrival of hyperscale data centers seeking geothermal power. Host Charles Zukoski examines how AI‑driven data‑center growth could double global electricity...
European Firm Lines up Five LNG Cargos to up Gas Storage Ante
Finland‑based Elenger secured five LNG cargoes for the spring, with three slated for the Inkoo terminal and two for Lithuania’s Klaipėda terminal. The first shipment arrived from the United States on the Marvel Swallow tanker, and additional deliveries are planned...
Unpacking Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Prop Up Coal
President Trump’s Department of Energy has revived Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to force utilities to keep aging coal plants operating, starting with Michigan’s JH Campbell plant in May 2025. The emergency orders bypass long‑term resource planning, cost utilities millions, and...
3 Canadian E&P Stocks Benefiting From a Tight Oil Market
Zacks highlights a tight oil market and expanding LNG capacity as catalysts for Canadian exploration‑and‑production firms, naming Canadian Natural Resources, Baytex Energy and ARC Resources as top picks. The industry outperformed the broader oil‑energy sector, delivering a 79.2% gain versus...
OneSubsea Technology to Enable ‘Faster Production’ at American Deepwater Field
OneSubsea, the SLB‑Aker‑Subsea7 joint venture, secured a contract with Texas‑based Beacon Offshore Energy to supply a high‑pressure, high‑temperature multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah deepwater field in the Gulf of America. The system is engineered to operate above 15,000 psi, enabling...
Fuerte Files PEA for Coffee Gold Mine
Fuerte Metals filed a 2026 Preliminary Economic Assessment for its Coffee gold mine in Yukon, estimating initial capital of C$998.2 million (≈US$718 million) and a two‑year payback. The updated technical report shows an after‑tax NPV of C$3 billion (≈US$2.2 billion) and a 43.5% IRR...
Aggreko to Deliver ‘Australia’s Largest’ Off-Grid Renewable Hybrid Power Plant
Aggreko announced a landmark 15‑year power purchase agreement with Harmony Gold to supply the Eva copper project in northwest Queensland. The off‑grid hybrid plant will combine a 118 MW solar farm, a 250 MWh battery storage system and a 104 MVA thermal generator,...
Cementation Africa Celebrates Tharisa Minerals Underground Project Commencement
Tharisa Minerals fired its inaugural blast on March 31, 2026, officially launching the underground phase of its Bushveld Complex chrome and PGM operation. Cementation Africa was selected as the development partner, tasked with early works, a five‑year main development program,...
Paramount Gold Nevada Begins Initial Assessment of Sleeper Gold Project, Nevada
Paramount Gold Nevada has started an Initial Assessment (IA) for its 100%-owned Sleeper Gold Project in northern Nevada, focusing on a heap‑leach‑only development of roughly 54 million tons of oxide and transitional material. The IA, conducted by SLR International with Forte...
Zentek Subsidiary Albany Graphite Engages Micon Int’l to Prepare New PEA for Albany Graphite Project, Ontario
Zentek Ltd. has engaged Micon International to prepare a new NI 43‑101 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for its Albany Graphite Project in Ontario, with completion expected this summer. The updated study will incorporate an updated mineral resource estimate, revised cut‑off...
Antimony Resources Advancing Bald Hill Property, New Brunswick
Antimony Resources reported significant progress on the Bald Hill antimony project in New Brunswick. The company has completed 6,500 metres of a 10,000‑metre drill program, extending the historic Main Zone and uncovering a new Marcus (West) Zone with massive stibnite mineralisation. Attention is...
A New Paradigm for Valve Reliability in HPAL and POX Mining Operations
Score’s acquisition of Callidus introduced FM‑1500™, a metallurgically bonded titanium‑nitride surface modification that replaces traditional thermal‑spray coatings on severe‑service ball valve trim. The new layer is about 1,500 µm thick, fully dense, and can reach 1,000 HV hardness, dramatically improving erosion and...
Multimillion-Dollar Fine for EnQuest over 33 Idle Wells as UK Cracks Down on Decom Inactivity
The UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority fined EnQuest £16.5 million (≈$22 million) for not decommissioning 33 idle wells in the Alma, Galia, Broom and Dons fields. The penalty, £500,000 per breach, follows missed deadline extensions after production stopped in 2020‑2021. NSTA...
Milei Win as Argentina Reviews Glacier Law to Boost Mining
Argentina’s new libertarian president Javier Milei is spearheading a review of the country’s glacier protection law, aiming to open previously off‑limits areas to mining. The proposal targets the mineral‑rich Patagonian glaciers, promising billions of dollars in foreign investment and new jobs....
Tests Return Strong Danver Copper Recovery
White Cliff Minerals announced that metallurgical test work on the Danvers zone of its Rae copper project in Nunavut recovered more than 90% of copper in all sample blends, peaking at 95.4%, and produced a high‑grade concentrate of about 40%...
Gold Terra Extends Walsh Lake North
Gold Terra Resource Corp. completed a 2026 winter drill campaign at its Walsh Lake target, sinking 15 holes and 4,905 m of core. The program confirmed a northward extension of the gold corridor by roughly 150 m and delivered high‑grade intercepts, notably a 5.7 m...
Gladiator Prepares 2026 Copper Campaign
Gladiator Metals Corp. announced the start of its 2026 drilling campaign at the Whitehorse Copper project in Yukon, beginning with a 35,000‑meter program focused on the Cowley and Cub East targets. The fully funded, $15 million budget is supported by a...
Panellists Emphasise Importance of Policy Implementation for Effective Tailings Management, ...
South Africa’s mining sector convened a Creamer Media webinar on 8 April to address gaps between robust tailings regulations and their on‑ground implementation. Panelists highlighted the urgent need for closure certificates and faster authorisation processes, noting that the Department of Mineral...
Silver Rate Today in India Is Below ₹2.40 Lakh. Is This the Right Time to Buy the White Metal?
MCX silver futures slipped 1.17% to ₹2.37,100 per kilogram, pushing the rate below the ₹2.40 lakh threshold. The decline reflects cautious market sentiment, weak safe‑haven demand, and a firm US dollar. Technical analysis places immediate resistance near ₹2.46,5 lakh and support at...
Northern Lights Adds Third CO2 Carrier to Expand CCS Network
The Northern Lights joint venture has added a third liquefied carbon dioxide carrier, the Northern Phoenix, to its fleet. The vessel will haul captured CO₂ from Yara’s facilities to the Øygarden receiving terminal, where it will be piped to subsea storage....
P2 Gold Drills 0.90 G/T Gold and 0.34% Copper over 48.77 Metres, Including 1.61 G/T Gold and 0.49% Copper over...
P2 Gold Inc. announced results from ten new reverse‑circulation drill holes at the Lucky Strike Zone of its Gabbs Project in Nevada. Hole GBR‑103 intersected 0.90 g/t gold and 0.34% copper over 48.77 m, including a higher‑grade core of 1.61 g/t gold and...
Alcoa Rejects Mercury Emissions Concerns From Its WA Refinery
Alcoa’s Wagerup alumina refinery in Western Australia reported a spike in mercury emissions, reaching about 400 kilograms in 2025—almost twice the 2022 level. The increase coincides with higher bauxite throughput and deteriorating condensers, which Alcoa attributes to natural ore variation....
Why High Oil Prices Are Good for Oil Companies — Until They Aren't
Oil prices have surged to $90‑$100 a barrel after the Iran conflict, delivering a multi‑billion‑dollar profit boost for U.S. producers such as ExxonMobil. However, the windfall is tempered by hedging contracts that lock many firms to $57 per barrel and...
China Tankers Join Line to Test Hormuz Exit and Iran Truce
Two Cosco‑linked VLCCs and a smaller Chinese tanker are positioned at the Strait of Hormuz, ready to become the first vessels to exit the Persian Gulf under the newly announced US‑Iran cease‑fire. The ships – Cospearl Lake, Yuan Hua Hu...
Tech to Accelerate Assay Turnaround in BC
Paragon Advanced Labs has linked Chrysos Corp.’s PhotonAssay with Veracio’s whole‑rock scanner at a new British Columbia hub, creating a rapid, non‑destructive assay workflow. PhotonAssay can quantify gold, silver and copper in about two minutes, while the Veracio scanner adds...
Georgia’s Forestry Industry Is in Crisis. One Solution Could Be in Your Medicine Cabinet.
Georgia tops the nation in timber harvest volume and forest‑product exports, but a wave of paper‑mill closures and damage from Hurricane Helene have pushed its forestry sector into crisis. Roughly 92% of the state’s forests are privately owned, meaning landowners...