Category: Latest Mining News

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) shares sank Tuesday after the company suspended operations at its Grasberg Block Cave underground mine in Indonesia, where a surge of wet material blocked access routes and left seven workers trapped underground.

Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin’s ex-wife can pursue a multi-billion dollar share of his stake in Nornickel, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, allowing potentially one of the highest-value divorce cases ever brought to continue.

Portugal has breached an international treaty by preventing the public from accessing key information about Europe’s largest lithium mining project during its environmental licensing process, a UN committee said on Wednesday.

Copper prices rose on Friday, putting the metal on track for a fourth straight weekly gain, as upbeat economic signals from the U.S. and China buoyed demand expectations.

Despite encouragement from Trump administration officials, the company behind the controversial Pebble mine in Alaska hasn’t yet submitted a revised proposal that could unblock the stalled copper-gold project.

August 25, 2025 – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — Americas Gold & Silver Corporation (TSX: USA; NYSE American: USAS) announced that recent drilling at its Galena Complex in Idaho has intersected exceptionally high-grade silver mineralization, marking one of the strongest exploration results from the historic mine in recent years.

The markets did little yesterday, but it doesn’t mean that we have no signals right now. Conversely, there are plenty.

Mining technology company Advanced Navigation, as part of BHP’s Deep Mining Challenge, has successfully deployed its hybrid navigation system in Europe’s deepest mine in Pyhäjärvi, Finland, at 1.4 km underground.

The Perth Mint’s gold product sales fell 33% in July from the previous month, while silver sales slipped to a six-month low, the refiner said on Wednesday.

The head of Glencore Plc’s huge coal-trading operation is leaving in the biggest shake-up of the trading unit in years, at a time when the commodity giant is struggling to revive its share price.

Global miner Anglo American on Thursday reported a $1.9 billion loss in the first half, reduced its dividend, and said restructuring efforts continued, including divestment of its coal and ailing diamond units.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s salespeople were recommending their hedge fund clients bet on a surge in US copper prices just a day before US President Donald Trump’s tariff decision sent the market crashing by the most on record.