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Chile's state-owned miner Codelco reported a sharp jump in first-half 2026 earnings, with higher copper prices more than compensating for an 11% decline in Codelco copper production and rising operational costs across several of its flagship mines. The company posted...

Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru have signed a joint declaration aimed at deepening regional cooperation on strategic minerals, with copper and lithium at the centre of the agreement. The four South American nations are seeking to strengthen their collective...

The US Department of War has committed $750 million to an investment vehicle supporting an offtake agreement for mixed rare-earth carbonates from the Serra Verde Rare Earth Project in central Brazil. The announcement represents one of the largest single...

The United States is advancing a domestic regulatory pathway for seabed mining in international waters as the federal government moves to secure access to critical minerals found on the deep ocean floor. A Congressional Research Service report published in...

The Karo Platinum Project in Zimbabwe has secured a five-year offtake agreement with Valterra Platinum, covering the purchase of platinum group metals and other metals produced at the project. The deal strengthens the Karo Platinum Project's path towards first...

MIT spinout SiTration and BHP have begun trialling copper recovery technology at BHP's Copper Cities site in Arizona, using legacy mining water as feedstock. The two companies have announced two pilot deployments aimed at validating copper recovery from legacy...

Ramaco Resources and Indium Corporation have entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding covering the potential supply of gallium and germanium from Ramaco's Brook Mine rare earth and critical-mineral project in Wyoming. The gallium and germanium supply deal outlines...