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McCreedy mine, in Ontario
Magna Mining records strongest quarterly performance at McCreedy yet
Updated 7 hours ago By: Tasneem Bulbulia

TSX-V-listed Magna Mining continued to execute on its underground development plan in the three months ended December 31, the company’s fourth quarter of full year 2025, with increased diamond... 


Sibanye-Stillwater’s Marikana K4 platinum group metals mine shaft.
Sibanye-Stillwater collaborates further to find new applications for platinum metals
17th April 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Mining and metals company Sibanye-Stillwater and the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa) on Friday announced their research collaboration to advance nuclear medicine for cancer... 


Indonesia supply growth underpins nickel price, but Middle East conflict driving volatility – BMI
Indonesia supply growth underpins nickel price, but Middle East conflict driving volatility – BMI
17th April 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

Research firm BMI – a Fitch Solutions Company – is revising its 2026 nickel price forecast to $16 600/t from $15 800/t previously, following an earlier upward out-of-cycle revision this year,... 


Platinum group metals' production surge.
PGMs, China’s stockpiling spur mining production leap, Minerals Council reports
15th April 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s mining sector entered 2026 with robust momentum, posting notable year-on-year production gains in February largely on the back of platinum group metals (PGMs) and China’s stockpiling... 


Maracás Menchen mine, in Brazil
Primary vanadium producer Largo reports higher Q1 output, plans to supply base metals, PGMs
15th April 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX- and Nasdaq-listed vanadium and ilmenite producer Largo has achieved a 101% year-on-year increase in vanadium pentoxide ( V2O5) production to 2 616 t in the first quarter of the year. This... 


BHP global generative exploration head Dr Cam McCuaig.
Exploration workshop sessions initiated in Africa by BHP
15th April 2026 By: Martin Creamer

A series of workshops to promote and support greater intelligence and collaboration in minerals exploration in key mining jurisdictions in sub-Saharan Africa are to be conducted by global mining... 


The Kamoa-Kakula mine
Ivanhoe reports 71 417 t of copper from Kamoa-Kakula, record 6% increase in production from Kipushi
13th April 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has produced 71 417 t of copper in blister and anode from its Kamoa-Kakula copper smelter, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for the first quarter of this year.... 


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Creamer Media consolidates global resources coverage under Mining Weekly International banner
13th April 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly has launched a new daily email newsletter and related webpage to consolidate its global resources coverage under the Mining Weekly International banner. Each weekday,... 


Pan African Resources Evader solar farm.
Eskom confident of meeting winter demand, Minerals Council South Africa indicates
10th April 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Amid the expectation of Eskom publishing its winter outlook later this month, the State-owned power utility has meanwhile expressed confidence that it will be able to meet electricity demand as... 


An image of Edgar Mwasha
Bank keen to assist in growing Tanzania’s mining sector
10th April 2026 By: Trent Roebeck

Tanzania-based financial services provider Stanbic Bank Tanzania – a division of the Standard Bank Group – is supporting the growth and diversification of the Tanzanian mining sector by investing... 


An image of Ogi Williams
Tanzanian mining sector promises growth, increased geopolitical relevance
10th April 2026

Tanzania’s mining sector is entering what may “prove to be its most consequential expansion cycle in decades”, underpinned by rising global demand for critical minerals, renewed investor confidence... 


Cross section of copper cables
Ultrafine metals supplier Miotal merges with asset manager
9th April 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company Fifth Era Acquisition Corporation (FERA) will soon merge with Abu Dhabi-based Miotal, which is a high-purity strategic metals supplier owned by SMT... 


Seabed
American exploration majors merge to form $1bn deep-sea mining company
9th April 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

American Ocean Minerals Corporation (AOMC) has announced it will merge with Nasdaq-listed Odyssey Marine Exploration to create one of the largest US-controlled critical mineral and rare earths... 


Eramet mineral sands mine in Senegal
Eramet says shareholders committed to capital increase
8th April 2026 By: Reuters

Eramet's main shareholders have reaffirmed their support for the mining group's funding plan and are committed to the success of a capital increase, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The decision... 


WA rolls out no-interest loan scheme to support nickel sector
WA rolls out no-interest loan scheme to support nickel sector
7th April 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

The Western Australian government has unveiled a A$15-million interest-free loan initiative aimed at supporting the state’s embattled nickel sector, as improving prices and sentiment offer hope for... 


Pipestone XL nickel alloy project area
First Atlantic’s awaruite recognised as strategic for US defence industry
1st April 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

TSX-V-listed First Atlantic Nickel Corporation has been accepted as a member of the US Defence Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). The DIBC operates as a consortium-based contracting vehicle under... 


Master Drilling CEO Danie Pretorius.
Proudly South African drill rigs without human intervention on way
31st March 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s Master Drilling, the Fochville-based company which on Tuesday reported a $292-million revenue record plus a nigh billion-dollar 2026 order book, is introducing autonomous drilling... 


Vale's Voisey Bay in Canada
Vale Base Metals grows copper, nickel resources, 2026 drilling push targets further gains
31st March 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

Vale Base Metals has reported a 6% increase in its copper mineral reserves and resources to 53-million tonnes in 2025, as the company progresses plans to expand its resource base by more than 20%... 


Minerals Council South Africa Acting Chief Economist Bongani Motsa.
Flow-through can advance South African exploration, says Minerals Council economist
30th March 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The introduction of a flow-through shares incentive scheme by the South African government would solve this country’s exploration problems. A slide with words to that effect was prominently... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
Minerals Council CEO reiterates need for coordinated cross-govt policy environment
27th March 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane on Friday reiterated South Africa’s urgent need for a coordinated cross-government policy environment directed at stimulating responsible and... 


Geraldine Slattery
Energy security overtakes decarbonisation as resources become tools of power, says BHP's Slattery
24th March 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

The global mining and energy landscape has entered a period of “structural volatility” that is redefining resources from being traded commodities to instruments of national power, BHP Australia... 


Centaurus receives BNDES LoI for Jaguar nickel project
Centaurus receives BNDES LoI for Jaguar nickel project
23rd March 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia-listed Centaurus Metals has received a letter of intent (LoI) from Brazil’s development bank, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), for R$1-billion (about... 


South African-born, naturalised Australian Brandon Craig has risen through the ranks and – for the last two years – been at the forefront of BHP's shift in direction.
BHP’s next leader faces same problems in deal-obsessed industry
19th March 2026 By: Bloomberg

BHP Group has picked the continuity candidate for its next boss: A life-long company man who has spent quarter of a century at the biggest miner, honing his skills in iron-ore and copper, its most... 


Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad
Anglo American expects final approval for Teck Resources merger around year-end, Brazil CEO says
19th March 2026 By: Reuters

London-listed mining company Anglo American expects to get final regulatory approval for its merger with Teck Resources around the year-end, the company's Brazil CEO Ana Sanches said on Wednesday.... 


Brandon Craig
Brandon Craig to succeed Mike Henry as BHP CEO
18th March 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Diversified miner BHP has appointed its Americas president Brandon Craig to succeed Mike Henry as group CEO and director with effect from July 1. Henry is stepping down after six and a half years... 


Centaurus inks $450m nickel offtake with Glencore for Jaguar project
Centaurus inks $450m nickel offtake with Glencore for Jaguar project
16th March 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

Australia-listed Centaurus Metals has signed its first binding nickel offtake agreement with commodities major Glencore for production from the Jaguar nickel project in Brazil. Under the... 


Lifezone secures exclusivity over Musongati nickel project in Burundi
Lifezone secures exclusivity over Musongati nickel project in Burundi
11th March 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Critical minerals developer Lifezone Metals has signed an exclusivity agreement with the government of Burundi to evaluate the Musongati nickel project, one of the country’s largest known nickel... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
Turn wealth beneath soil into prosperity for all, Minerals Council CEO pleads
10th March 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s mining sector must be a national economic priority so as to unleash its inherent and powerful multiplier effects, make inroads into high levels of unemployment and contribute to... 


TMC says deep-sea mining application makes permitting progress
TMC says deep-sea mining application makes permitting progress
9th March 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Ocean mining hopeful TMC The Metals Company says US regulators have determined that its consolidated deep-seabed mining application is in “substantial compliance”. The determination was made by... 


Canada Nickel clears federal review milestone at Crawford project
6th March 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Toronto-listed Canada Nickel Company has reached a key permitting milestone at its Crawford nickel project, in Ontario, after federal regulators completed the review of the project’s impact... 


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