Vale shelves base metals IPO: Globe
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has shelved plans for an initial public offering of its critical-minerals subsidiary Vale Base Metals (VBM) amid political opposition in Brazil to potentially losing control over strategic…
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Colombia scraps 10 mining rules to attact investors
Colombia’s new government has repealed 10 resolutions restricting natural resource exploration and extraction, accelerating President Abelardo De La Espriella’s push to revive mining investment and unlock the country’s largely untapped…
Sponsored video: AME urges tax fix to advance projects
A gap in Canada’s exploration tax incentives is making it harder to finance the studies needed to turn mineral discoveries into mines, the Vancouver-based Association for Mineral Exploration says in…
Rio’s Barton joins Carney’s $1T investment drive
Prime Minister Mark Carney has named Rio Tinto (LSE, ASX, NYSE: RIO) chair Dominic Barton to lead Invest in Canada’s board as Ottawa expands the federal agency’s role in attracting…
Summer surprises with 3rd highest capital raising
During the period from July 16 to Aug. 14, 2026, the three largest mining financings and credit-facility transactions totalled around $1.74 billion (US$1.25 billion), the third largest capital raising period…
Opinion: Battery Passport 2027 – the EU rule that reaches back to the mine
A regulation aimed at batteries is about to make demands of the people who dig up their raw materials. From Feb. 18, 2027, every battery placed on the EU market…
Treasure hunt – Sudbury: The Basin That Built a Mining Nation
Read the French version: Sudbury : le bassin qui a bâti une nation minière Watch the Video: English | French Born in cosmic violence, discovered along a railway and built by generations of miners,…
Stillwater more than triples Montana resource
Stillwater Critical Minerals (TSXV: PGE; US-OTC: PGEZF) has established an initial indicated resource and more than tripled inferred tonnage at its Stillwater West project in Montana, sharply increasing its inventory…
Government cash reshaping mining finance: report
As the United States announces more investments in mining and processing, mining companies and the general public need to be more aware of how the trend is changing the government’s…
US opens vast Pacific seabed to mining
Washington is planning to auction off deep-sea mining leases near the Northern Mariana Islands later this year, advancing the Trump administration’s push to develop domestic sources of critical minerals from…
US awards $162M to turn mining waste into critical minerals
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects for $162 million (C$225 million) in potential funding to recover critical minerals from mine waste and industrial feedstocks, part…
Processing, not output, may decide metal shortages
Critical-mineral shortages through 2035 may depend as much on whether miners can reliably process and deliver usable material as on whether enough tonnes are mined, according to GEM Mining Consulting….