Environmental fast-tracking is set to be extended to US non-energy mining projects after a federal permitting committee voted to include mining as a covered infrastructure sector under the Fixing America’s...

US Representative for Minnesota Betty McCollum passed new legislation to permanently ban copper-nickel mining across the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). McCollum said that the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection...

Vysarn subsidiary Pentium Hydro has secured a goods and services contract from Iluka Resources for the Cataby mine in Western Australia. The mine is a chloride ilmenite deposit located in...

Diversified natural resources company Teck Resources has bought the SunMine solar energy facility in Kimberley, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Acquired from the City of Kimberley, SunMine is a 1.05MW solar...

China’s recent threat to use rare earth mineral exports as leverage in its ongoing trade war with the US has, once again, accentuated concerns over the one-party state’s dominance of...

Canadian augmented reality (AR) developer NexTech AR Solutions has partnered with Canadian mineral exploration company Romios Gold Resources to create 3D AR core samples for mining exploration projects. NexTech CEO...

While New South Wales lacks the vast mining operations of states such as Queensland, the state’s mines contribute A$1.8bn in annual royalties and employ over 24,000 people. Yet as mining...

Glasgow-based start-up Hypervine, announced Monday the start of a project, co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to develop services using space-based data to improve efficiencies for extractive industries. Hypervine,...

BHP (NYSE, ASX, LON: BHP) the world’s biggest miner, released results for the second half of 2019 on Monday, announcing an interim dividend for shareholders of 65 cents per share –...

Colorado-based gold miner Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) has reported gold mineral reserves of 100.2 million attributable ounces for 2019, the largest ever in company history. This represents a 53%...