First Quantum Minerals gets approval for processing copper ore stockpiled at Cobre Panama
First Quantum Minerals expects about $250 million in capital investment for plant recommissioning, inventory replenishment, and sustaining capital...
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Africa’s first stakeholder prosperity bond: All you need to know
Artisanal mining has been a job generator on a global level, and in Africa, it often operates informally on or near company-run mines, hitting their profits, spreading pollution and depriving nations of revenue...
IF Insights: China braces for GlenTinto copper dominance
Investors and analysts also see the will to control future copper supply as the prime motivator behind the Glencore-Rio Tinto merger talks...
Mining the abyss: A dangerous gamble?
What makes the prospect of deep-sea mining especially alarming is how little we know about the environments poised to be disturbed...
IF Insights: The future runs on minerals, not just oil or data
If we get the infrastructure right, the policies aligned, and the funding smarter, we won’t just be unlocking minerals...
Start-up of the Week: Still Bright & the art of making copper extraction cost-effective
Still Bright has developed a new way to extract copper, which can recover nearly all the copper from typical ores without pre-processing steps that lose up to 20% of the metal...
Latin America’s emerging minerals battleground
Although some of the world's largest reserves of rare-earth elements and essential minerals are found in Latin America, much of this remains unexplored...
Start-up of the Week: Meet Addionics, disruptive force in EV battery ecosystem
Addionics says the electrodes, which look like sheer silk scarves when held up to the light, provide faster charging and boost electric vehicle range by 30%...
Metal shortage coming in next ten years, warns research
According to the ETC, over the past two decades, energy transition metals have received an average annual capital expenditure of USD 45 billion...
Copper prices dip despite Li Qiang’s upbeat comments on Chinese economy
Li Qiang stated that his country's growth in the second quarter of the financial year of 2023-24 was expected to be faster than the 4.5% registered during the January-March period...