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Alaska's Mining Future Relies on Energy and Lots of It
Since January 2025 (what else happened then?) America's and Alaska's energy future became brighter. Drill, baby, drill is the order of the day, and the Trump administration has put a lot of effort into getting Alaska's energy development back on…
Trump Doesn't Walk in Our Parks, He Strip Mines Them
President Donald Trump is not content with gutting the U.S. National Park Service. After slashing its staff and budget, and opening up tracts of public land to mining and logging activities, the administration has spent the past year trying to open…
Mine safety commissioner fired by Trump gives up legal fight, citing Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's expansion of President Trump's firing power is sweeping into mine safety. Moshe Marvit, whom Trump sacked from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), moved to voluntarily drop his legal challenge on…
Inside the Chinese factory where Australian mining is being reimagined
In a sprawling factory complex midway between Beijing and Shanghai, two companies from almost polar opposite industrial cultures are trying to build something that doesn't yet exist: a fleet of battery-powered machines big enough to run one of…
I drove Fortescue's giant electric mining machines in China
Xuzhou | I am sitting at the controls of a machine roughly the size of a house, staring at two touch screens that would not look out of place in an electric car. This is XCMG's GR350EP, an 18-foot (5½-metre) electric grader being developed…
Saskatchewan mine starts production as Ottawa pushes critical minerals strategy
A new mine in Saskatchewan is already producing copper and zinc, barely a year after the federal government put it on a list of major projects eligible for support and expedited approvals. The mine, known as McIlvenna Bay, is in operation as Canada…
The new heavy industry: Big Tech's AI buildout flips historic capex ratios over mining (XLK:NYSEARCA)
The technology sector is now more capital-intensive than the mining sector, marking a historic inversion that shatters the long-standing view of Big Tech as an asset-light, cash-spinning machine. According to analysis from Azuria Capital and…
Listed player Manuka hunts cash after restarting gold mine
Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
Exclusive: Big Law sees a gold mine in data centers
The rush by AI hyperscalers and their Wall Street backers to build billions of dollars' worth of data centers and associated energy projects has set off fierce competition for talent among major law firms. A few years ago, electricity-related…
Should Investors Ride the Silver Boom With a Physical ETF like SIVR or Through Silver Mining Stocks With SLVP?
The Abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF (SIVR +2.51%) provides direct exposure to the price of physical bullion, while iShares MSCI Global Silver and Metals Miners ETF (SLVP +3.17%) targets the equity performance of companies involved in silver…
Ranked: The Biggest Mining Emissions by Ore
Potash has the highest emissions intensity in the dataset at 178,000 tCO₂e per million metric tons (Mt) of ore, far above nickel, iron ore, copper, gold, and salt. Salt has the lowest emissions intensity of commodities in the dataset at…
Opinion: How a weird little film most theaters didn't want saved mine
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Mine restarts production as major recruitment drive opens 200 jobs
Plymouth's vast tungsten mine has started production and a recruitment drive is under way with the Hemerdon mine on target to be fully operational next year. Jeff Court, chief executive of Tungsten West Plc, today told PlymouthLive: “It's a…
Collective Mining to Begin Drilling at Orion, a Newly Defined 2026 Target; Drilling at Victory Target to Follow in Q4-2026
Ari Sussman, Executive Chairman, commented: 'Our exploration team continues to demonstrate the significant prospectivity of the Guayabales Project. Orion is particularly compelling because of the combination of sheeted and stockwork veining, strong…
FLSmidth to establish fourth business line focused on crushing, sizing & screening to support its strategic growth journey
FLSmidth & Co. A/S (FLSmidth) today announces its intention to establish a fourth business line, effective 1 January 2027. Alanas Kraujalis, currently interim President, Service Business Line, will be appointed President of the new Crushing, Sizing…
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