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            <title>South Africa’s Zandkopsdrift rare earths project highlighted at Junior Indaba</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Zandkopsdrift rare earths project in South Africa’s endowed Northern Cape was highlighted on day two of the Junior Indaba, which also learnt of the rapid forward momentum of West Wits Mining’s gold-bar producing Qala Shallows mine on the doorstep of Johannesburg, as well as the advance of Pensana's rare earths project in Angola. Frontier Rare Earths CEO and co-founder James Kenny declared the company’s Zandkopsdrift to be the lowest-cost producer of magnet rare earths and battery-grade manganese sulphate globally. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
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            <title>Canadian lithium developer E3 secures $36m fed funding for Cleawater demo plant, feasibility study</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canadian lithium developer E3 Lithium has met all the conditions required to receive Canadian federal government funding worth $36-million to advance Phase 3 of Clearwater project's demonstration facility and the project's overall feasibility study, in Alberta. Having executed a contribution agreement for the non-repayable funding through Natural Resources Canada's Global Partnerships Initiative (GPI), E3 will have enough funding to support 75% of the Clearwater project's $48-million capital requirement for the current works underway.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Africa must create conditions that allow investment to flourish, Junior Indaba hears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining's future will not be built only by the largest companies. Even though major mining houses are economically critical, history has shown that discoveries are usually made by optimists, entrepreneurs, and explorers. Every operating mine started as an idea, a map, a drill programme, and a group of people prepared to take a risk when success was still uncertain, Junior Indaba chairperson Bernard Swanepoel pointed out in opening the vibrant junior mining event on Tuesday, June 9. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
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            <title>McEwen PFS on Grey Fox confirms 15-year mine life addition to Fox Complex</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX- and NYSE-listed precious metals and copper developer McEwen has confirmed in a prefeasibility study (PFS) on the Grey Fox project its viability to become a major source of ore for the Fox Complex and play a key role in increasing the group's production near Timmins, in Ontario. With the addition of Grey Fox, gold production at the Fox Complex is anticipated to reach 100 000 oz in 2029 and average 87 000 oz/y from 2028 through 2041.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>Green hydrogen seen as having potential to trigger new green industrialisation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Green hydrogen, which is produced with the help of platinum group metals (PGMs), could become the catalyst for new green iron, green steel, green chemicals and beneficiation industries built on South Africa's mineral and renewable energy advantages. “The real prize is not hydrogen — it’s industrialisation. The opportunity is significant if South Africa can align infrastructure, investment and skills development,” Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy president Gary Lane pointed out on LinkedIn in response to Mining Weekly’s report on June 5 about South Africa’s green hydrogen and power-to-x (PtX) project development standard (PDS).]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>PLATINUM GROUP METALS</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Stormlands says NPV of Mexican project can almost double using dynamic modelling</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A clear example of why mining project valuation should be dynamic is the Cerro Caliche project, in Mexico, which can have its net present value (NPV) valuation increase by $253-million using updated commodity prices, says analytics platform Stormlands Mining. Using its AI-first mining valuation platform to model project economics from publicly available technical information, Stormlands is able to create an illustrative economic model on projects, which takes into account current commodity prices.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>GOLD &amp; SILVER</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>South African green hydrogen first-movers given major boost</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Enticing support for first movers into green hydrogen project development is on offer via a first-of-a-kind government-led framework designed to assess the readiness and bankability of green hydrogen and power-to-x (PtX) projects in South Africa. This follows South Africa’s official launch of the PtX project development standard (PDS), which includes green hydrogen and PtX developers being invited to register their projects and complete the PtX PDS questionnaire, with the assurance that all information will be treated as confidential and shared only with authorised partner institutions.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>GREEN HYDROGEN</category>
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            <title>Tesla co founder-backed copper maker Red Metals secures seed funding for US refining plant</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canada-listed copper manufacturer Red Metals has secured $10-million in seed funding which will contribute to its planned $70-million facility in Charleston, South Carolina, to scale its novel copper refining process designed to reshore the manufacturing of finished copper products to the US.

The funding round was led by a company called Gigascale Capital, with participation from Future Ventures, MCJ and JB Straubel, who is the founder and CEO of Redwood Materials and co-founder of Tesla. ]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>New cadastre, Sam Molefi, PyroFuZA make headlines </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the new online mining licensing system that has begun with Western Cape applications; Sam Molefi's Modi Mining operation; and PyroFuZA, which sees a positive value-add future for South Africa.  ]]></description>
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            <category>DIVERSIFIED MINERS </category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>New cadastre processing W Cape mining licence applications, Parliament hears</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The phased rollout of the new online mining licensing system – the cadastre – is progressing steadily, with Western Cape applications being received and processed online, Parliament was informed on June 3 during the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources’ (DMPR's) National Council of Provinces (NCOP) Budget Vote 34. The migration from the old system to the new platform has been completed in the Western Cape, and the implementation is now progressing to other regions, Minerals and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe reported.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Sherritt appoints finance veteran interim CFO to steer through Cuba challenges</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Having warned shareholders of acute financial, legal and operational challenges ahead owing to US sanctions in Cuba last month, TSX-listed Sherritt International Corporation has appointed Fitzroy Richardson as interim CFO effective immediately. The company explains Richardson’s appointment will provide experienced financial leadership as the corporation works to complete its outstanding quarterly filings, an important step toward seeking a revocation of a failure-to-file cease trade order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission on May 21.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
            <category>NICKEL &amp; COBALT</category>
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            <title>Platinum investment demand broadening to minor PGM metals, SFA (Oxford) points out</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The strong ongoing investment demand for platinum is broadening to the minor platinum group metals (PGMs) such as ruthenium and iridium, SFA (Oxford) CEO Henk de Hoop pointed out on Wednesday June 3. Questioned by Mining Weekly on the prospect of platinum investment demand remaining strong, De Hoop noted that up to half of some of the ruthenium imports into China had been for investment purposes rather than industrial demand.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <title>Emerging miner American Lithium welcomes Peru's national importance decree for uranium, lithium </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TSX-V-listed American Lithium Corporation has welcomed the Peruvian government's issuance of a Supreme Decree formally declaring the national importance of both uranium and lithium, while declaring an upcoming international forum of national importance.   The inaugural forum, called 'Uranium and Lithium: Pillars of energy leadership for mining, technological and smart city development in Peru and the world', is being co-organised by Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines and the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, and is scheduled for July 7 and 8.]]></description>
            <author>Marleny Arnoldi</author>
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            <title>South Africa can become strong value-add minerals player again, PyroFuZA points out</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Look out for PyroFuZA. Those eight letters have the potential to make best use of South Africa’s natural resources and restore South Africa’s value-adding power, which, in turn, can help to foot the bill for the innovative rebuilding of this country’s economy. PyroFuZA spells out that it's possible for South Africa to put its own distinctive correct measures in place that will enable this country to, once again, become a strong player within the value-add ecosystem, amid different measures being applied at different stages of advancement so that long-term momentum is assured. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global metals miner Rio Tinto has successfully commissioned its $1.5-billion AP60 smelter expansion at the Complexe Arvida operation, in Québec, marking a major milestone for the deployment of low-carbon aluminium smelting technology. The startup, which began in March, is expected to be completed by the end of 2026 with all 96 new pots operating. This will increase the plant’s production capacity by about 160 000 t/y of primary aluminium for a total of 220 000 t/y produced with the AP60 technology.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[He was born in Roodepoort but never imagined that one day he would be mining gold in Roodepoort, now the site of Qala Shallows, the first new underground gold mine to be built in South Africa in 15 years. He was convinced all the gold had been mined out. But that was the furthest thing from the truth.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer notes that the Minerals Council AGM heard this week that mining can elevate South Africa’s economic development; he also discusses the urgent need for a one-stop shop for mineral right applications; and he talks about the R180-million that has been raised to transition key copper projects in the Northern Cape into operations.  ]]></description>
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            <title>Illegal miners extract billions in Amazon gold despite Brazil crackdown, Greenpeace finds</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Billions of dollars worth of gold is still being extracted illegally from Brazil's Amazon rainforest, a study by nonprofit watchdog Greenpeace found, despite efforts by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to crack down on wildcat mining.

Lula pledged upon taking office in 2023 to eliminate illegal gold mining from Indigenous lands and protected areas after years of expansion encouraged by far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro. Last year, Brazil's Federal Police seized a record 447 kg (985 pounds) of illegally mined gold.]]></description>
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