Tariffs, uncertainty, driving nations to tighten grip on critical minerals
Verisk Maplecroft’s Resource Nationalism Index shows a record risk increase in 47 countries since 2020.
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Infographic: Tesla’s wild ride from surge to slump
Elon Musk’s political rise once fueled Tesla’s stock—but now is it dragging it down? Sentiment has turned sharply, sending shares tumbling. In Europe, sales are sinking as protests and growing…
Bolivia’s lithium deals with China, Russia in limbo
Bolivia is facing mounting public backlash over contracts signed with Chinese and Russian companies late last year to exploit its vast lithium reserves, with community groups arguing the agreements offer…
Collective shares hit 12-month peak on high-grade Ramp zone assay
Collective Mining (TSX, NYSE: CNL) shares rose 12.5% Thursday and hit a 12-month high after the company reported the best intercept yet in the recently-discovered Ramp zone at its Guayabales…
PDAC JV Video: Dundee Sustainable’s CLEVR chemistry cuts gold extraction time to an hour
Household chemicals could change gold extraction, especially where cyanide is banned, Dundee Sustainable Technologies (CSE: DST) CEO Jean-Phillipe Mai said. Dundee’s Chlorination Leach in a Vat Reactor (CLEVR) process shuns toxic cyanide in…
NexGen’s Rook 1 project to enter CNSC final stage approval, analysts cool on hearing delays
NexGen Energy’s (TSX, NYSE: NXE; ASX: NXG) Rook 1, Canada’s largest development-stage uranium project has reached the final stage of project approval, with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) setting…
PDAC JV Video: High capital costs hold back mining’s clean‐energy shift
Decarbonization remains more of a buzzword than a breakthrough for the mining industry, Groupe BBA’s Todd McCracken said. Clean-energy solutions are hard to sell, the executive said at the recent…
Citigroup predicts LME copper price to hit $10,000 before US tariffs
The metal climbed in recent weeks after President Donald Trump ordered a probe into copper imports.
Tariff war drives commodity demand
As Canada and the European Union retaliated against United States tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, analysts at Macquarie said the chaos would hurt the global economy even while boosting…
Meteoric Resources takes crown for world’s largest clay-hosted rare earths project
Meteoric Resources’ (ASX: MEI) update of its Caldeira rare earths project in Brazil makes its 1.1 billion-tonne resource the largest ionic adsorption clay deposit in the world by tonnage and…
Hochschild restores dividend in decade-best results
Precious metals miner Hochschild Mining (LSE: HOC) reported its strongest financial performance since 2012 on Wednesday and restored its dividend thanks to record gold and silver prices in 2024. The South America-focused…
US copper imports might double: Goldman Sachs
A potential Trump administration tariff on copper could swell American imports by 50% to 100% as traders race to buy the red metal and gain from price differences, investment bank…