Category: Geology, Mining, and Metallurgy

Agnico to Match Barrick’s Output, May Become World’s Second-Largest Gold Producer

Agnico Eagle is now considered to be Canada’s largest mining company by market capitalisation. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 18, Agnico Eagle Mines is reportedly on track to become the world’s s...

2025-02-18

White Cliff Minerals Awards Drilling Contracts for Rae Copper Project in Canada

The maiden drilling campaign will focus on high-priority targets generated during a successful field campaign in 2024. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 18, White Cliff Minerals is set to commence drilling acti...

2025-02-18

Gold Price Rebounds to $2,900 on Softer Dollar, Tariff Threats

Wedoany.com Report-Feb 18, Gold recovered from the biggest intraday decline in two months, returning to the key $2,900 level, as fears of an impending trade war continue to support safe-haven demand. ...

2025-02-18

UQ Copper Processing Start-up to Help Unlock Global Resources

Professor James Vaughan and Banksia Managing Director Leigh Staines. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 17, Inaccessible supplies of an element crucial to powering a clean-energy future are set to be unlocked wi...

2025-02-17

Australia Iron Ore Ports Close to Brace for Category 5 Cyclone

Wedoany.com Report-Feb 14, Australias iron ore export hub, the worlds largest, braced on Friday for a powerful tropical cyclone, forcing the closure of all of the major commodity ports in the countrys...

2025-02-14

Southern Copper Eyes 2027 Start for $1.8B Tía María Mine

Tía María is in the Islay province of Peru’s Arequipa region. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 13, Southern Copper (NYSE, LON: SCCO) is pushing forward with its long-delayed Tía Mar&...

2025-02-13

China’s Ganfeng Starts Lithium Production at Argentina’s Mariana Project

Brine pools used to extract lithium are seen at the Salar del Rincon salt flat, in Salta, Argentina August 12, 2021. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 13, Chinas Ganfeng Lithium (002460.SZ), mining company has ...

2025-02-13

Tropical Cyclone Zelia Forms off Australia’s Major Iron Ore Hub

Australia’s Port Hedland, the world’s largest bulk-export terminal, handles cargoes for BHP, Roy hill, and Fortescue Metals . Wedoany.com Report-Feb 12, A tropical cyclone has formed off ...

2025-02-12

Kodal Kicks off Production at Mali’s Bougouni Lithium Mine

Dense medium separators construction at the Bougouni lithium project. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 12, Kodal Minerals (LON: KOD) announced on Tuesday its first spodumene concentrate production at the Bougo...

2025-02-12

Australia Passes Bill Offering Hydrogen and Critical Minerals Tax Incentives

The Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2024 was introduced to the House of Representatives on 25 November 2024. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 12, The Australian Senate ...

2025-02-12

Trump to Announce 25% Steel and Aluminum Tariffs in Latest Trade Escalation

Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 10, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will announce on Monday new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum import...

2025-02-10

Saudi Arabia’s Maaden Raises $1.25 Billion to Fund Mining Growth

A fork light moves aluminium ingots at the aluminium processing plant at the Saudi Mining Company, (Maaden AB - PLEASE CHECK) mineral industry complex in Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Nov....

2025-02-10

Nickel Industries Making Money in Weak Market

Nickel Industries holds an 10% interest in the Huayue Nickel Cobalt HPAL project Wedoany.com Report-Feb 9, In a market that has seen few winners in recent years, Australia’s Nickel Industries (...

2025-02-09

Seven Bidders Battle for Chile’s Lithium Mining Contracts

SQM lithium mining operations in Chile’s north. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 7, Chile has wrapped up the initial phase of its efforts to award special lithium operation contracts (Ceols) to private c...

2025-02-07

Barrick’s Gold Reserves Rise in 2024 on Reko Diq Project

Barrick Gold’s Reko Diq project in Pakistan. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 7, Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX) overall proven and probable gold reserves jumped 23% to 17.4 million ounces ...

2025-02-07

British Columbia Fast-Tracks 18 Mining and Energy Projects After US Tariff Threat

The projects include four mines, three energy security projects and 11 BC Hydro clean energy ventures, mainly focusing on wind power. Wedoany.com Report-Feb 7, The Government of British Columbia in C...

2025-02-07

Steel Melting Industry Facing Existential Crisis Due to High Energy Costs: PSMA

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 28, The Pakistan Steel Melters Association (PSMA) has sounded the alarm on the crippling impact of high energy costs on the steel melting industry. The association has urged th...

2025-01-28

Australian Government Pledges $1.24 Billion in Green Aluminium Push

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 20, Australias Labor government on Monday pledged A$2 billion ($1.24 billion) in production credits to help support the countrys four aluminium smelters switch to renewable pow...

2025-01-20

Weighing the Green Cost: How Nickel Mining in Indonesia Impacts Forests and Local Communities

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 19, Indonesia produced nearly four times the amount of nickel in recent years compared to a decade earlier — following the global push for a low-carbon revolution that drives t...

2025-01-19

Superlarge Rare-Earth Deposit Discovered in SW China’s Yunnan, With Potential Resources Reaching 1.15 Million Tons

Experts from the China Geological Survey work on-site at the rare-earth mineral deposit in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Wedoany.com Report-Jan 17, A superlarge ion-adsorption-type rare-ea...

2025-01-17

Superlarge Rare-Earth Deposit Discovered in SW China’s Yunnan, With Potential Resources Reaching 1.15 Million Tons

Experts from the China Geological Survey work on-site at the rare-earth mineral deposit in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Wedoany.com Report-Jan 17, A superlarge ion-adsorption-type rare-ea...

2025-01-17

Rio Tinto, Glencore Discuss Potential Combination in Mining’s Biggest-Ever Deal

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 17, Rio Tinto Group and Glencore Plc have been discussing combining their businesses, which if successful would rank as the largest-ever mining deal and create a behemoth to ri...

2025-01-17

Auking Grants Resource Mining Option to Acquire JV Projects in Saudi Arabia

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 14, AuKing Mining has signed a binding term sheet with Resource Mining to grant the latter an option to acquire all of its interests in its joint venture (JV) projects in Saudi ...

2025-01-14

Milestone for Rinehart’s Lithium Play in Auto Heartland

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 13, A "pit to battery" lithium and renewable energy project backed by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart is conquering carbon in the industrial heartland of Europe. ASX-listed...

2025-01-13

Vizsla to Acquire Rand Copper-Gold Claims at Woodjam Project in Canada

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 9, Vizsla Copper has entered into a purchase agreement with Siyata Mobile to acquire a 49% joint venture (JV) interest in Siyata Mobile in five claims, which are part of the Woo...

2025-01-09

China’s Zijin Plans Lithium Production in Congo From Early 2026

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 7,China’s Zijin Mining Group Co. aims to start producing lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo early next year from one of the world’s largest deposits of the ...

2025-01-07

Iron Ore Price Rebounds on Improving Steel Margins, Falling Portside Stocks

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 03,Iron ore futures prices rebounded on Monday, helped by improving steel margins, falling portside stocks and stimulus hopes in top consumer China, although gains were limited ...

2025-01-03

China to Cut Import Tariffs on Some Recycled Copper and Aluminum Raw Materials

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 02,China will reduce import tariffs on ethane and certain recycled copper and aluminum raw materials from next year, the government said on Saturday. The Ministry of Finance ann...

2025-01-02

China’s November Net Gold Imports via Hong Kong Hit Seven-Month High

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 01,China’s net gold imports via Hong Kong in November more than doubled from October, marking the highest level in seven months, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department...

2025-01-01

China Smelter Group Agrees to Lower Q1 Copper Charges

Wedoany.com Report-Jan 01,China’s top copper smelters agreed to price guidance for processing charges in the first quarter of 2025 that was lower than this quarter’s guidance, industry sou...

2025-01-01