Projects

The Alcoa gallium production plant has reached a final investment decision, with support from the governments of Australia, Japan and the United States. The new facility will be developed at Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery in Western Australia, creating an...

BHP has approved execution of the Ministers North Project as part of a $US0.9 billion investment on a 100% basis in the future of Western Australia Iron Ore. The project centres on a high-grade Brockman ore deposit southeast of...

Hyundai Engineering has taken an important step toward growing its global critical minerals business by formally entering the $2bn North American critical minerals market via participation in the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project located in the United States' Nevada. The company entered...

Exploration company KEFI Gold and Copper - KEFI signs $400m mining services contract with BCM Group in Ethiopia for Tulu Kapi Gold Project. As per this nine-year mining services contract, BCM is going to provide a variety of mining services comprising the mining...

Lindian Resources, the Australian mining company, said on May 7, 2026, that its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, is still on track to start production in the fourth quarter of 2026. If it is finished as per plan, this rare earths...

International financiers have gone ahead with funding $1.3bn for Zambia Rail Project connecting copper-producing areas of Zambia to global export markets, a project that might transform mineral supply chains and boost the contribution of Africa to the energy transition. Funding $1.3bn...

An exploratory project, backed by the US, aims to tap rare earth elements from industrial mining waste in two huge sand-like dunes at a former chemical processing plant in South Africa. The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project has US support by means...