LG Energy Solution of South Korea Signs Contract to Procure 240,000 Tons of Canadian Lithium Concentrate
On October 8, South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution signed a binding spodumene concen...
US Critical Minerals Reserve Introduces $1 Billion in Procurement Funding
On September 23, Project Vault, a US strategic critical minerals reserve program, advanced the const...
CGC's Little Narrows Gypsum Mine in Canada Completes First Shipment, Full Production Set for Spring 2027
On September 23, CGC announced that the Little Narrows gypsum mine located in Cape Breton, Nova Scot...
US EXIM Commits $500 Million to VaultCo, with Glencore as Founding Partner
On September 23, Glencore announced that it had been selected by the US government as a founding par...
Mining Park to Be Built in the South of the Capital of Catamarca Province, Argentina
The Government of Catamarca (Gobierno de Catamarca) and the Municipality of San Fernando del Valle d...
Venezuela Plans to Move About $4 Billion in Gold From the UK to US Custody
On September 18, the Venezuelan government and representatives of some opposition parties were negot...
Non-ferrous metal ore rail shipments in Bashkortostan, Russia, increased by 50% in the first 8 months
From January to August 2026, Russian Railways loaded 331,600 tons of non-ferrous metal ore and sulfu...
Syria Places 73 Tons of Uranium Under IAEA Safeguards
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani recently announced that Damascus has placed 73 tons of nat...
Zijin Longking Manufactures 25 Units of 230-Tonne Electric Mining Trucks for Ghana's Akyem Gold Mine
On September 8, Ghana's Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, visited t...
US Refined Copper Tariff Decision Delayed, COMEX-LME Spread Briefly Turns Negative
On September 10, no final decision had been made on the US refined copper tariff policy. The US gove...
Steer Secures First North American Order, to Deploy Mixed Cat and Komatsu Autonomous Fleet by 2027
As demand continues to grow, Norwegian autonomous haulage company Steer has signed its first custome...
SANY Heavy Equipment's First Batch of Domestically Produced Autonomous Mining Trucks Shipped to South America
On August 12, 2026, SANY Heavy Equipment held a departure ceremony for autonomous mining trucks at i...
Guinea Selects Glencore as Offtake Partner for State-Owned Bauxite
On August 7, the Guinean government selected Glencore through an international tender as the offtake...
Brazil's Porto Piauí sends first shipment of 110,000 tonnes of iron ore to China
Brazil's first offshore iron ore transshipment operation began on August 7 approximately 22 kilomete...
DR Congo: Export Ban on Copper and Cobalt Concentrates
On August 6, the Democratic Republic of Congo issued a new administrative directive banning the expo...
BHP workers at Port Hedland in Australia to strike for two days from August 8
A union spokesperson said that despite progress made in negotiations between BHP and the union on Tu...
Indian imported manganese ore prices fall, Australian ore at $5.24/dmtu
Currently, Indian imported manganese ore prices remain under sustained pressure, with weak downstrea...
Anglo American Brasil Sets Record Iron Ore Shipments of 2.78 Million Tonnes at Açu Port in H1 2026
Anglo American Brasil released its operational and financial results for the first half of 2026 (1S2...
Canada's Bunker Hill Ships First Concentrate and Draws Down $5 Million in Financing
Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (TSX:BNKR | OTCQB:BHLL) announced that the first shipment of concentrate ha...
First World's Fastest Self-Unloading Ship Named for Guinea's Simandou Project
SimFer (a joint venture between the Government of Guinea, Rio Tinto, and the CIOH consortium led by ...
China's June Rare Earth Magnet Exports to Japan at 128 Tons, Remaining Sluggish
On July 21, trade statistics released by the General Administration of Customs of China showed that ...
Brazil Includes Critical Minerals and Fertilizers in R$18.5 Billion Plan to Tackle Tariffs
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a provisional measure on July 22, providing R$1...
Two Argentine provinces sign logistics agreement to boost exports from $7.1 billion copper project
The governments of Argentina's Santa Fe and San Juan provinces have signed an agreement allowing min...
Rio Tinto Takes Delivery of Record-Breaking Self-Unloading Ship Built in China
The new self-unloading vessel "Wontanara," built in China, was delivered on July 21. Dubbed the "Kin...
China's Zoomlion and China Coal Construction Group Hold Mining Technology Exchange Meeting
China's Zoomlion and China Coal Construction Group held a special technology exchange meeting on Jul...
China's imports of copper ore from Russia double in first half of 2026
According to data released by the General Administration of Customs of China on July 20, 2026, China...
Chile's Alta Ley Group Launches Mining Booster Program to Drive Internationalization of Mining Suppliers
Alta Ley Group has launched the Mining Booster acceleration program, aimed at enhancing the export c...
Zijin Mining Initiates Lithium Exports from Manono Mine in DRC
China's Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Zijin Mining," 601899.SH) officially commenced...
China Iron Ore Fines Price Down $0.95/dmt Week on Week
On July 13, 2026, the spot price of iron ore fines (Fe 61%) in North China fell by $0.95/dry metric ...
Australia's Victory Metals Ships Heavy Rare Earth Concentrate to US, Japan, and Australia
Victory Metals has shipped heavy rare earth mineral concentrate to potential offtake partners in Aus...