GR Engineering Awarded EPC Contract to Deliver Coarse Particle Flotation Project for Northparkes
GR Engineering has secured a A$68 million (≈US$48 million) EPC contract with Evolution Mining’s Northparkes subsidiary to upgrade the mine’s coarse particle flotation circuit. The upgrade targets a roughly 2% lift in copper recovery, higher throughput to 8 Mt/y, and better energy efficiency. Early works have begun, with the Brisbane‑based team leading the effort, and commissioning is planned for the second half of FY2028. The project represents a capital spend of about A$75 million (≈US$53 million).
Glencore, Taiwan’s CPC Charter Tankers as Hormuz Reopens
Glencore and Taiwan’s state refiner CPC each chartered a VLCC to load Middle Eastern crude for Asia after a cease‑fire halted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The vessels, including Glencore’s Asian Lion, were booked at a Worldscale rate of...
Opus One Discloses First Results From Noyell Winter Drilling
Opus One Gold released initial assay results from its winter drilling campaign at the Noyell property in Quebec's Abitibi greenstone belt. Four rigs, after early personnel and mechanical setbacks, operated at near‑full capacity, focusing on Zone 1 definition and West Zone...
Canberra Backs Ardea Mammoth WA Nickel Project
Ardea Resources’ Kalgoorlie Nickel Project (KNP) has been selected for Australia’s Investor Front Door pilot, giving it a dedicated federal liaison to speed regulatory approvals. The project hosts the nation’s largest nickel‑cobalt resource—about 6.1 million tonnes of nickel and 386,000 tonnes of...
Dalaroo Launches 9km-Long West African Gold Soil Sampling Blitz
Dalaroo Metals has launched a 9‑km soil geochemical sampling campaign at the Goldridge prospect of its Bondoukou project in north‑eastern Côte d’Ivoire. The grid comprises 4,400 samples spaced 200 m by 50 m to turn the structural corridor into drill‑ready targets. Early...
Queensland Moves to Fast-Track Australia’s First New Oil Field in 50 Years
Queensland announced a fast‑track plan to develop the Taroom Trough, the nation’s first new oil field in five decades. Shell is already producing about 200 barrels of crude per day, which is refined locally into diesel. The state government is...
COPX: Copper Rush Is Just Getting Started
The Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX) offers high‑beta, diversified exposure to a copper sector poised for strong growth as AI‑driven data center construction accelerates demand. Structural supply constraints, including declining ore grades and limited new projects, are tightening the...
Larvotto Lines up Defence Insider for NSW Antimony Push
Larvotto Resources has hired former federal senator David Fawcett as a strategic adviser to help position its Hillgrove antimony‑gold project as a key global supplier. The move targets growing demand for antimony in defence technology, night‑vision equipment and grid‑scale batteries,...
How the US Rebuilt a Collapsed Fishery
The West Coast groundfish fishery, once declared a disaster in 2000, rebounded after stringent federal measures including quota cuts, trawling bans, and a 2010 catch‑share program that allocated individual permits. Scientific monitoring and stricter observer requirements helped depleted stocks, culminating...
The Commodities Feed: Hormuz Remains Blocked for Now
Oil prices rebounded on Thursday, with ICE Brent climbing over 3% to trade above $97 per barrel as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains halted. U.S. crude inventories unexpectedly rose by 3.1 million barrels, the highest level since June...
Locksley Fires up First Ever Drilling Beside Giant US Rare Earths Mine
Locksley Resources has begun its first subsurface drilling at the El Campo rare‑earth prospect, located 6.5 km southeast of the Mountain Pass mine in California. The four‑hole diamond program will test a 900‑metre strike that previously returned surface grades up to...
Viking Sharpens Nevada Tungsten Drill Targets with Gravity Survey
Viking Mines Ltd completed a combined ground gravity and magnetic survey at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, confirming that gravity highs coincide with known scheelite‑bearing skarn mineralisation. The data sharpened drill‑ready targets at Linka Main, Hillside and Conquest and...
Northern Cape Hopes To Become SAs New Economic Growth Node
Acting Chief Economist Bongani Motsa warned that the Northern Cape’s extensive manganese and rare‑earth reserves could transform the province into South Africa’s next mining and beneficiation hub. Premier Dr. Zamani Saul framed mining as one of six pillars of the...
Red Mountain to Launch New Season Field Exploration Campaign at US Antimony Projects
Red Mountain Mining is restarting exploration at its US antimony projects after the winter break, beginning systematic surface geological mapping and sampling at the Thompson Falls claim where rock‑chip assays returned up to 36.5% antimony and 1.12 ppm gold. The company...
Lower Petrol Prices Imminent as Global Oil Prices Plunge 15%
Global oil markets tumbled after President Donald Trump announced a two‑week US‑Iran ceasefire, sending Brent crude down 15% to $92 per barrel and WTI to $92.5. The price shock quickly filtered to Nigeria, where the Dangote Refinery reduced its pump...
Giant Gold Mine Operating with 90 Pct Renewables Says It Has Virtually Eliminated Diesel Costs
Bellevue Gold’s remote Western Australian mine is now operating with roughly 90 % of its power supplied by a 90‑MW hybrid renewable system, effectively eliminating most diesel use. Diesel fuel accounted for only 1.3 % of total project costs in the FY...
Iran Strikes Saudi’s Critical Pipeline Serving Yanbu
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck the East‑West (Petroline) pipeline that feeds the Red Sea port of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia’s primary crude export route after the Strait of Hormuz was blocked. The line has been moving up to seven million barrels...
Mithril Silver and Gold Confirms Widespread High-Grade Mineralisation at Copalquin’s Target 3 Prospect
Australian explorer Mithril Silver and Gold (ASX:MTH) announced high‑grade epithermal mineralisation at its Copalquin Target 3 prospect in Durango, Mexico. Shallow drilling across 1.2 km² returned intercepts up to 33.2 g/t Au and 151 g/t Ag, with the best hole delivering 0.9 m at 2.79 g/t...
24 New Species Found in Ocean Zone Eyed for Battery Metals Mining
Scientists described 24 new amphipod species, including a brand‑new superfamily and family, from sediment cores collected 4,000 m deep in the Clarion‑Clipperton Zone (CCZ). The CCZ spans roughly 6 million km² of the central Pacific and is rich in nickel, cobalt and copper...
Apollo Hill Grows as Saturn Locks in Ausenco for Gold Study
Saturn Metals announced high‑grade gold intercepts at its Apollo Hill project in Western Australia, including a 4‑metre interval grading 70.03 g/t gold north of the existing 2.24‑million‑ounce resource. The results define a new exploration corridor and keep mineralisation open in multiple...
EcoGraf Fields Growing Investor Interest in Development of Tanzanian Gold Portfolio
EcoGraf (ASX:EGR) is courting investors and major gold producers as it evaluates development pathways for its 3,000‑square‑kilometre Golden Frontier portfolio in Tanzania. The company presented an initial exploration results package and highlighted its flagship Epanko project alongside a vertically integrated...
Wildcat Grows Bolt Cutter as Drilling Extends Lithium System
Wildcat Resources announced a roughly 300‑metre northward extension of its Bolt Cutter Central lithium discovery in Western Australia’s Pilbara, pushing the known mineralised strike to more than 2.3 km northwest and 800 m northeast. The latest diamond drilling intersected visual spodumene in...
Red Mountain Mining Gears up for US Antimony Push
Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX) is set to resume US field work this spring, launching systematic surface mapping and sampling at its Thompson Falls antimony project. Early rock‑chip assays returned up to 36.5% antimony and 1.12 ppm gold, prompting the company to move...
Greatland’s Quarter Shines Bright
Greatland Resources reported a strong Q1 2026, producing 82,723 ounces of gold and 4,128 tonnes of copper, bringing year‑to‑date totals to 249,887 ounces of gold and 11,022 tonnes of copper. Sales reached 97,800 ounces of gold and 4,620 tonnes of...
Tivan Mobilises for Tungsten Drilling at Molyhil
Tivan has mobilised its 2026 fieldwork campaign in central Australia, launching a 13‑hole, 1,950‑metre drilling program at the Molyhil tungsten project after receiving Northern Territory regulatory clearance. The first‑phase effort aims to discover new tungsten mineralisation beyond the existing 4.647 Mt...
Lefroy Exploration Returns Strong Gold Assays From Phase 2 Grade Control Drilling at Lucky Strike
Lefroy Exploration reported strong shallow assay results from Phase 2 grade‑control drilling at the South pit of its Lucky Strike project in Western Australia, including a 16‑metre interval at 3.39 g/t gold and a 2‑metre zone at 11.09 g/t. The drilling also identified high‑grade...
Belararox Targets Silver ‘Sweet Spots’ at Toro Central
Belararox (ASX:BRX) is intensifying diamond drilling at the Toro Central prospect, a core element of its TMT project in north‑western Argentina. The latest hole, TMT‑TC‑DDH‑002, intersected 47 metres grading 172 g/t silver, confirming a shallow, high‑grade silver‑zinc‑copper‑gold envelope within a broader polymetallic...
Ancient Tectonics Linked to Rare Earth Mineral Deposits, Adelaide University Study Finds
A University of Adelaide team linked ancient subduction zones to the majority of rare‑earth element (REE) deposits and carbonatites. Using two‑billion‑year plate‑tectonic models, they found 67% of carbonatites and 72% of REE deposits formed in the past 1.8 billion years sit...
Felix Sees Gold Lining in Treasure Creek Antimony Push
Felix Gold’s 2025 drilling at the NW Array of its Treasure Creek project uncovered multiple shallow gold zones, highlighted by a 37.65‑metre intercept grading 2.02 g/t Au. The gold mineralisation consistently follows the same structural corridor that hosts high‑grade antimony, confirming...
Windfall Tax Delay Exposes Indonesia’s Challenge in Capturing Commodity Gains
Indonesia has postponed its planned windfall tax on coal and nickel exports, originally set for April 1, to resolve technical disputes over profit definitions, price thresholds, and calculation methods. The delay reflects a broader tension between the government’s short‑term fiscal pressures—exacerbated...
BIR Urges Policymakers to Emphasize Steel Recycling
The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has warned policymakers that current green‑steel standards using a sliding‑scale methodology reward carbon‑intensive production and penalize recycled‑steel use. It criticises two competing standards—ResponsibleSteel’s sliding scale and the Global Steel Climate Council’s approach—for creating a...
Monazite Confirms NdPr Potential at Bayan’s Desert Star Project
Bayan Mining’s Desert Star project in California has confirmed monazite, allanite and xenotime as the primary hosts of high‑grade rare‑earth mineralisation in three surface samples. X‑ray diffraction and petrographic analysis revealed total rare‑earth oxide (TREO) grades between 6.7% and 9.1%,...
Tehran Takes the Strait — and the Premium
Iran maintained roughly 1.9 million barrels‑per‑day of crude exports in March, even as rival Gulf shipments were curtailed. By restricting Hormuz traffic to vessels linked to Tehran, the country turned the strait into a de‑facto gatekeeper, limiting eastbound supply. This scarcity...
How Mining Companies Use Satellite Connectivity to Keep Remote Operations Running
Satellite connectivity has moved from a temporary backup to a core component of remote mining operations. Providers now offer multi‑orbit services—geostationary, medium‑Earth and low‑Earth—allowing mines to blend high‑capacity bulk links with low‑latency interactive streams. This backhaul supports everything from autonomous...
Petrostates Without Oil Export Routes Take the Hardest Hit
The February‑March closure of the Strait of Hormuz eliminated roughly 11 million barrels per day of crude and fuel exports from the Middle East, forcing Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain to slash output dramatically. By contrast, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman...
TNM Podcast: Cartels’ Growing Impact on South American Mining, Ft MINING.COM’s Cecilia Jamasmie
In the latest episode of The Northern Miner podcast, MINING.com editor‑in‑chief Cecilia Jamasmie discusses how a wave of cartel‑driven crime is reshaping politics across Bolivia, Chile and Colombia and what that means for the mining sector. She notes that rising...
China's LNG Demand Won't Bounce Back
China’s LNG imports dropped 11% last year to 68.4 million tons, marking the first decline in nearly two decades. BloombergNEF now forecasts a further fall to 62.3 million tons in 2026, while Rystad sees a modest rebound to 70 million tons. The downturn...
How China Positioned Itself to Win the Global Energy Crisis
China entered the Iran‑War with extensive oil and gas stockpiles and a clean‑energy infrastructure that outpaces any other nation. The conflict has throttled Hormuz shipments, prompting a rapid global shift toward renewables where China already dominates solar panels, wind turbines,...
Upcoming Precious Metal Drill Results in NSW Could Be Growth Catalysts for These Stocks
Soaring gold and silver prices have prompted ASX junior miners in New South Wales to launch aggressive drill campaigns across the prolific Lachlan Fold Belt. Argent Minerals reported visible gold in its Lode 100 hole at the Kempfield project, a key...
White Oil: EV Case Strengthens After Iran War, Putting Lithium Plays in the Driver’s Seat
Oil price spikes from the Iran conflict have revived interest in lithium, dubbed “white oil,” as higher fuel costs improve the economics of electric vehicles. While global EV sales slipped 39 % in January, analysts at UBS and Macquarie argue that...
Outlook for Electric Vehicle Battery Materials: Video
IDTechEx analyst Daniel Parr released a video outlining the near‑term outlook for electric‑vehicle battery materials. He highlights accelerating demand for lithium, nickel and cobalt, while noting supply constraints and the rise of recycling and solid‑state technologies. The analysis also points...
The Hormuz Crisis Is Making Low-Carbon Energy Strategies More Expensive
The Iran‑Houthi conflict in the Strait of Hormuz has sharply disrupted sulfur shipments, driving global sulfur prices up more than 70 percent and reaching about $600 per metric ton. Sulfuric acid, a by‑product of oil refining, is essential for hydrometallurgical...
$2B Investment Drives Expansion of U.S.-Canada Oil Flows
Bridger Pipeline LLC announced a $2 billion, 650‑mile pipeline from the U.S.–Canada border to Wyoming, capable of moving up to 1.13 million barrels per day, with an initial flow of 550,000 bpd and optional tie‑ins to the Bakken shale. The line is positioned...
Africa: Governments Push for Increased Local Control of Africa's Gold
Gold Fields' Damang mine in Ghana will be taken over by the government on 18 April after the lease was not renewed, and the tender will be limited to companies wholly owned by Ghanaian citizens. The move reflects a wider African...
Fastmarkets Proposes Changes to Asia Copper Concentrates Index Weighting, Seeks Feedback on Normalization of Gold and Silver
Fastmarkets has proposed a dynamic, volume‑based weighting for its Asia copper concentrates TC and RC indices, moving away from the current fixed 50:50 split between trader and smelter purchases. The new method would adjust weekly using a rolling six‑month volume...
A Global Oil Crisis Is Giving Suriname’s Offshore Dreams New Life
Suriname’s offshore Block 58 is gaining momentum as the 2026 global oil shock pushes buyers toward non‑Middle‑East sources. TotalEnergies says the $10.5 billion Gran Morgu project is 50% complete and aims for 220,000 barrels per day by 2028. The basin could hold up...
AngloGold, Gold Fields Make Ground on North American Rivals
North America’s three biggest gold miners—Newmont, Agnico Eagle and Barrick—reported lower output in 2025 and project further declines in 2026, while rivals such as China’s Zijin, AngloGold Ashanti and Uzbekistan’s NMMC posted production gains. The gap reflects divergent strategies: North...
Bezant Resources Reports Sevenfold Increase in Hope Open-Pit Mineral Resource in Namibia
Bezant Resources announced a seven‑fold increase in the Hope open‑pit mineral resource in Namibia, lifting the estimate to over 3 million tonnes from 410,000 tonnes. The new Mineral Resource Estimate reduces the strip ratio to 9:1 and extends the immediate life‑of‑mine...
Uranium Energy Adds Second ISR Operation with Burke Hollow Start
Uranium Energy Corp (UEC) has launched its Burke Hollow in‑situ recovery (ISR) operation in Texas, marking the first new U.S. ISR uranium project in over ten years. The site taps a measured and indicated resource of more than 6.15 million lb of uranium,...
Uranium Energy Starts Burke Hollow Output in Texas
Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) has activated its Burke Hollow in‑situ recovery (ISR) operation in Texas, marking the first U.S. ISR uranium production in over a decade. The project, approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, is expected to ramp...