Aramco and Maaden dig deep into Saudi Arabia’s USD 2.5 trillion mineral wealth
New joint venture will explore 182,000 sq km for copper, rare earths and other critical minerals as Riyadh accelerates its post-oil diversification drive...
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Rio Tinto posts highest H1 earnings in four years as AI boom lifts copper revenue
The world's largest iron ore miner is now deriving around 56% of its profit from copper and aluminium combined, turbocharged by the AI boom...
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...
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%...