- Eldorado and Foran combine to create a leading gold and copper producer. READ MORE
- Australian junior budgets keep sliding, dragging exploration down – Australia's exploration budget total hit a three-year low in 2025, falling 6% to US$1.86 billion — a US$122 million drop from US$1.98 billion in 2024. READ MORE
- Forging a supermajor: What a Rio-Glencore merger means for metals and mining. READ MORE
- ArcelorMittal SA extended its mineral development agreement with the government of Liberia to 2050 and is considering growing its iron ore concentrate production in the country to 30 million metric tons/year. European mills most probable users. READ MORE
- BHP Group Ltd. selected 10 early-stage exploration and technology companies for its 2026 BHP Xplor program. The selected exploration companies comprise FrontierX, Litchfield Minerals Ltd., Orion Minerals, Otrera Resources, PT GeoFix and Utah Geological Survey. The technology companies selected are RadiXplore, Mineural, VectOres Science and Discovery Genomics. The program offers $500,000 in equity-free funding and provides technical, commercial, and operational support. READ MORE
- Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo opened a graphite processing plant at a mine owned by Chinese company DH Mining, Reuters reported. The plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 200,000 metric tons, according to the report. READ MORE
- A Chilean mining group praised the government's new National Strategy for Critical Minerals, an effort to boost production of Chile's rich mineral resources, but cautioned that challenges remain. READ MORE
- India will establish dedicated rare-earth corridors as part of its fiscal budget, Platts reported, citing Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's union budget speech. The corridors will be placed in three states to leverage the available mineral resources. READ MORE
- Centerra Gold Inc. suspended operations at its Langeloth Metallurgical Co. LLC operation in Pennsylvania due to an explosion caused by an uncontained chemical reaction, Dow Jones Newswires reported. READ MORE
- A Chilean court allowed authorities to use force to remove striking workers from Capstone Copper Corp.'s desalination plant in the Mantoverde copper-gold mine, Reuters reported. Capstone said it has resumed operations at the mine, with expectations of 50% to 75% of normal production. READ MORE
- A collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 227, Reuters reported, citing Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the governor of the North Kivu province. READ MORE
