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US minerals exploration company Ivanhoe Electric plans to acquire a purpose-built, Crossover XRE tunnel boring machine (TBM) and materials handling system for decline development at the Santa Cruz copper project, in Arizona, at cost of about $64.7-million. The equipment is being sourced from US-based TBM and technology supplier The Robbins Company, which recently bought the [...

US-based Sunshine Silver Mining & Refining Company (SSMRC), which is working to revitalise the Sunshine Complex in Idaho’s Silver Valley, has applied to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. SSMRC intends to list on the NYSE, but has yet to finalise the number of […]

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Mosaic Company posted a net loss of $258-million for the first quarter of this year, compared with net income of $238-million reported for the first quarter of 2025. Mosaic’s North America business includes seven potash and phosphate mining facilities primarily located in Saskatchewan, Canada, and Florida, in the US, along with five phosphate concentrates ...

The Federal Government will invest a further $387.4 million over four years in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The funding is in addition to the $278 million announced in 2025, and also builds on the organisation’s near-$1 billion annual funding allocation. The Federal Minister for Industry and Innovation and Science Tim Ayres […]

Two of the industry’s biggest players are joining forces to help accelerate the future of safer and more sustainable tailings management, with BHP and Rio Tinto releasing new research aimed at improving large-scale filtered tailings technology across the mining sector. “Reimagining tailings management will require the industry to explore new ideas, using the new information [...