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Industry News
Turkey has announced a $600 million investment to scale Beylikova — the world's second-largest rare earth deposit — into a full industrial operation targeting a top-five global ranking, with three facilities and…
Companies & Organisations
Portugal has granted Savannah Resources a second administrative easement over private land at the Barroso lithium project, deepening a confrontation with local communities who say the government is prioritising a private mining…
Industry News
Lynas CEO Amanda Lacaze says US and EU procurement regulations are already changing rare earth purchasing decisions, with buyers shifting away from China to comply with new sourcing restrictions ahead of their…
Companies & Organisations
Lumina Metals has signed a letter of intent with KGHM to discuss copper concentrate supply from its 604 million tonne Nowa Sól project in Poland, following a C$406 million Toronto IPO that…
Companies & Organisations
Rudnik Uglja swung to a €6.9 million net loss in 2025 after the eight-month closure of Montenegro's sole thermal power plant cut coal deliveries by 849,000 tonnes and halved the mining company's…
Industry News
Norway is joining the US-led Pax Silica coalition, contributing the world's largest sovereign wealth fund and significant critical mineral reserves including Europe's largest rare earth deposit to a growing allied initiative countering…
Policies and Regulation
France has called an emergency G7 ministerial meeting on critical minerals and announced a national plan targeting 100% of European heavy rare earth oxide demand by 2030, as Paris pushes for an…
Industry News
Ukraine could develop critical mineral projects four times faster than the European average thanks to digitised Soviet geological data, as the EU connects Polish, Finnish and French export credit agencies to finance…
Companies & Organisations
For TETHYS, the agreement represents the commercial activation of its flagship Turkish operation and a significant milestone in its broader strategy to develop a multi‑country portfolio of critical mineral assets across the…
Policies and Regulation
We are moving from a system of running costs—buying oil and gas to keep the lights on—to a system of capital costs, where the minerals we bake into our technology define our…