- Canada moves to restart railways, limiting commodity impacts. READ MORE
- Air Canada pilots have voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike mandate, putting them in a position to walk off the job as early as Sept. 17 - one week before MINEXPO starts in Las Vegas. READ MORE
- Osisko, Gold Fields' $1.27B deal tops metals mining M&A. READ MORE
- Australian miners fear sovereign risk after government cancels A$1B gold project. READ MORE
- Rio Tinto's Jadar lithium project faces obstacles with public pushback. READ MORE
- The Lobito Atlantic railway connecting Democratic Republic of Congo to Angola's Port of Lobito made its first shipment of copper cathodes bound for the US, according to Trafigura Pte. Ltd., which is part of the railway consortium. READ MORE
- India's Hindalco Industries will spend $10 billion to expand its domestic business and U.S.-based aluminum recycler Novelis Inc, Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said during the metals refiner's shareholder meeting. READ MORE
- Strong interest from Sumitomo Corp. in Tivan Ltd.'s fluorspar resource in Western Australia shows the importance of the mineral, as reflected in Australia's addition of fluorine to its critical minerals list, according to executive chair Grant Wilson. READ MORE
- Chile's environmental regulator, the Superintendency of the Environment, filed two charges against Codelco for the company's management of the Talabre tailings dam at its Ministro Hales copper operations, Reuters reported Aug. 22.The charges were filed as the state-owned company did not have a contingency plan to prevent underground water from being affected by the tailings dam and for the incorrect deposit of tailings materials since 2017, the report said. READ MORE
- Shifting away from China for the copper supply chain will delay the global energy transition because replacing China's smelting and refining capability to meet the rest of the world's copper demand would require nearly $85 billion, a Wood Mackenzie report said. READ MORE
- An estimated 5,000 illegal miners have targeted a new prospect located in a protected Indigenous territory in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, which borders the Amazon rainforest, Reuters reported, citing environmental group Greenpeace. READ MORE
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