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- South32 Ltd. CEO Graham Kerr welcomed Exxaro Resources Ltd.'s South African manganese consolidation as "good for the industry," but he said his company will not follow suit and instead eye exploration opportunities in Australia. READ MORE
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- Perpetua Resources Corp. secured the last federal permit required to advance construction at the Stibnite gold-antimony project in Idaho. READ MORE
- Battery producer Clarios LLC is evaluating Indiana, Texas and Utah as potential sites for its planned $1 billion critical minerals processing and recovery plant, which would extract antimony and other critical minerals from recycled materials. READ MORE
- Titan Mining Corp. launched the construction of a commercial demonstration facility for natural flake graphite at its Empire State mine in New York, which would enable the first end-to-end production of U.S. mined and processed natural flake graphite in nearly 70 years. READ MORE
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- Guinea revoked the licenses of 46 mining companies covering bauxite, gold, diamond, and graphite operations, Reuters reported. The number of withdrawn licenses may reach 53, according to the newswire's sources. "These are just small, underperforming licenses," a mining analyst told Reuters. "Impact on the market should be negligible." Some analysts see the move as a warning to larger operators amid rising resource nationalism in Guinea, the report said. READ MORE
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