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Florence Copper Production Must Triple to Meet Annual Target
Trekor Metals has stated that its Florence copper project in Arizona will accelerate production ramp-up in the second half of the year, aiming to increase output threefold to ensure the mine produces at least 30 million pounds of copper for the full year. The Florence copper project is the worl...Read More -
Resolution Copper Awards $110 Million in Contracts to Advance Underground Mine Development
Resolution Copper has awarded contracts worth approximately $110 million to Major Drilling America Inc. and Redpath USA Corporation to advance exploration and underground development at the proposed Resolution Copper project in Arizona. These contracts represent significant early commitments ...Read More -
U.S. Proposes $3 Billion Investment in Critical Minerals to Strengthen Defense Supply Chains and Reduce Reliance on China
U.S. President Trump announced on Friday that the federal government will invest $3 billion in various critical minerals and battery projects. The initiative aims to boost domestic production capacity and serves both national security and industrial policy objectives. Speaking at a roundtable ...Read More -
African Countries Collectively Shift Mining Regulations Toward “Controlling Value Chains”
DailyEconomic – A wave of mining regulatory reform is sweeping across Africa. Between 2024 and 2026, more than a dozen countries have tightened their mining regulations almost simultaneously, marking a fundamental shift from “growth through extraction” to “controlling value ...Read More -
Global Gold Resource Rankings: Underground Gold Reserves – First Australia 13,000 Tonnes
Many ordinary people and gold investors tend to confuse underground gold reserves with central bank gold reserves. These are two completely different types of assets with vastly different value logics. Below we present separate, authoritative data based on 2026 USGS and World Gold Council figures...Read More -
Mexico Ramps Up Fertilizer Production Capacity
Recently, two Mexican private companies, Ferma Chemical and Western Gas & Petrochemical (GPO), announced combined investments of over US$3.2 billion in two major fertilizer projects to expand domestic production capacity of anhydrous ammonia and urea, reduce dependence on fertilizer imports, ...Read More -
Tanzania Attracts Multilateral Exploration Investments in Critical Minerals: Strategic Layout and Project Unveiling
Core Background and Strategic Significance Beyond its long-standing status as a major gold producer, Tanzania has rapidly emerged as a primary hotspot for global mining giants navigating the energy transition, thanks to its world-class deposits of critical minerals, including graphite, rare earth...Read More -
Ghana Drives In-Country Value Addition for Gold and Lithium Resources: Strategic Layout and Project Unveiling
Core Background and Strategic Significance As Africa’s premier gold producer, Ghana has recently expanded its resource horizon into strategic critical minerals like lithium. Historically, the mining sector’s contribution to Ghana’s economy was largely confined to raw/primary min...Read More -
Namibia Accelerates Synergy Between Uranium Mining and Green Hydrogen Development: Strategic Layout and Project Unveiling
Core Background and Strategic Significance Namibia is one of the world’s premier uranium powerhouses, hosting world-class Tier-1 deposits such as the Husab and Rössing uranium mines. Driven by the global low-carbon energy transition and the revival or construction of nuclear power projects ...Read More -
South Africa Deepens Mining Energy Transition and Power Sector Reform: Strategic Layout and Project Unveiling
Core Background and Strategic Significance As the world’s leading producer of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), manganese, chromium, and a major coal exporter, South Africa’s mining sector has long been severely constrained by chronic rolling blackouts (loadshedding) and frequent breakdowns of ...Read More -
Lobito Corridor: Strategic Logistics Layout and Infrastructure Expansion
Core Background and Strategic Significance The Lobito Corridor is a vital transnational logistics artery connecting the Port of Lobito on Angola’s Atlantic coast with the mineral-rich Copperbelt regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia. For a long time, landlocked mining p...Read More -
Zambia Sets Ambition to Double Copper Production: Strategic Layout and Project Unveiling
Core Background and Strategic Planning To reclaim its status as a leading copper powerhouse in Africa and globally, the Zambian government officially launched the “National Three (3) Million Metric Tonnes Copper Production Strategy by 2031.” With recent annual copper production hoveri...Read More
