Italy’s Webuild and Brazil’s Odebrecht Engenharia & Construção are key members of groups that have been selected as preferred bidders to build an 830 km section of the Lobito Corridor rail... 

Marc Cameron will join Weir as president of the minerals division on October 26 and become a member of the group executive. In a media release to Mining Weekly on Wednesday, October 21, Weir plc... 

ASX-listed Cobalt Blue Holdings has signed a term sheet for the sale of standard-grade cobalt metal rounds to Swiss metals trader STG Metals. The material will be produced at Cobalt Blue's... 

Mercuria Energy Group has placed another big bet on copper production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sealing a deal to buy metal from units of Shanghai Jayson New Energy Materials Group. The... 

TSX-V- and Nasdaq-listed Electra Battery Materials Corporation has signed a term sheet with global commodities trader WMC Group for a five-year working capital and commercial partnership to support... 

The European Commission has chosen 46 strategic raw material projects to benefit from faster permitting and help in bidding for public and private funding, as the bloc races to diversify supply... 

Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals deal with the US government after "decoupling" it from a separate health funding agreement it signed on Thursday, its foreign minister said. "There was... 

A US company developing America's first commercial-scale, solar-powered cobalt sulphate and cobalt metal processing facility, EVelution Energy, has garnered approval from US Citizenship and... 

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a nationwide airborne geological mapping programme aimed at improving knowledge of its vast mineral reserves to reduce exploration risk and attract... 

Madagascar wants to raise as much as $5-billion by teaming up with asset manager Gemcorp Capital Management to fund energy, infrastructure and mining projects in the island nation. The partnership... 

TSX-V- and Nasdaq-listed Electra Battery Materials Corporation has appointed as GM of its Ontario cobalt sulphate refinery Garzon Duenas, who will lead the project from ongoing construction through... 

Democratic Republic of Congo will subject major mining companies to annual audits of subcontracting practices and compliance with local-content requirements from 2027, as authorities step up... 

The ordinary shares of precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater have been approved for inclusion in the list of qualifying equity securities to be traded on South Africa’s complementary... 

Mining companies are set on building scale through M&A and partnerships to tackle financial and geopolitical hurdles, despite several thwarted megadeals over the past year. Gold Fields, whose... 

Morocco's largest mining group Managem said on Friday its first-half profit attributable to shareholders surged to 3.778-billion dirhams ($395-million) from 380-million dirhams a year earlier,... 

Reduction of 3 000-equivalent trucks on the road, a 70.5 MWh decrease in smelting electricity consumption, a 70 000 t cut in smelting CO2 emissions, and a R203-million annual cost saving, which... 

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has signed an agreement with electric utility company Anzana Electric Group to fund a feasibility study to expand hydropower generation and upgrade... 

Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing a one-stop agency for major mining investments as part of reforms linked to its minerals partnership with the US, aiming to cut red tape and attract more... 

Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday announced a funding agreement for the upgrade of the Chirundu border with Zambia, to reduce delays on a vital gateway connecting the central African copperbelt to... 

TSX-V and Nasdaq-listed Electra Battery Materials Corporation has announced preliminary engineering results for the initial phase of its two-phase nickel refinery to process mine-derived feedstock... 

Mining chemicals importer Kemcore has been granted environmental clearance for a manufacturing plant in Botswana, paving the way for it to secure financing to build a facility to supply copper and... 

ASX-listed Nickel Industries has advised of an interruption to the ramp-up of its Excelsior nickel/cobalt high pressure acid leaching project, in Indonesia, owing to dry conditions that have... 

Demonstrated to Mining Weekly at this week’s Electra Mining Africa exhibition in Johannesburg were AI-enabled solutions that are taking mining tyre performance to the next level by lowering... 

Democratic Republic of Congo plans to tighten control over geological data that guides billions of dollars in mining exploration, potentially extending state influence over the development of... 

Chinese makers of batteries for electric vehicles are demanding steeper discounts for cobalt, which could further cut into margins at Indonesian nickel producers squeezed by rising costs of ore and... 

TSX-V and Nasdaq-listed cobalt processor Electra Battery Materials has finalised definitive agreements with an agency of the Ontario government, Invest Ontario, for C$17.5-million in funding to... 

Mota-Engil is set to sign a 30-year concession with the Democratic Republic of Congo to operate a key copper and cobalt railway, potentially backed with up to $1-billion of US financing. The deal... 

Minerals Council South Africa has responded exceedingly positively to the launch by President Cyril Ramaphosa of the third phase of South Africa’s Government-Business Partnership for Growth and... 

Mining bosses say that regulatory scrutiny of major mergers is increasing as governments pay closer attention to critical minerals and security of supply in the face of a volatile geopolitical...