Iran Pushes Ahead With Copper, Steel, and Strategic Metals Expansion Despite Sanctions
Iran is home to some of the Middle East’s most abundant mineral resources — including copper, iron ore, zinc, gold, and an array of rare...
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Saudi Arabia’s Mining Revolution: How the Kingdom Aims to Become a Global Power in Copper, Gold, and Critical Minerals
Saudi Arabia is advancing one of the most far-reaching mining transformations in the Middle East, redefining itself from an oil-centric economy into a diversified global...
Peru Faces Mining Uncertainty Amid Social Tensions and Rising Global Copper Demand
Peru, a global leader in copper, silver, and zinc production, is navigating one of the most challenging periods in its mining history. Political volatility and...
Balkan Gold Exploration Surges as Investors Seek Untapped European Deposits
Gold exploration across Southeast Europe is accelerating at a pace not seen in decades. Rising global gold prices, renewed investor appetite, and the region’s strong...
Spain’s Lithium Rush: A High-Stakes Bid for Green Energy, Jobs, and the Future of Extremadura’s Land
As Europe accelerates its search for strategic minerals like lithium and zinc to fuel the clean-energy transition, a proposed underground lithium mine in southwest Spain...
Innovative Tools Transform Responsible Mining: How a European Project Is Shaping the Future of Ethical Raw Materials Exploration
Mining remains one of the world’s most polarizing industries. Society depends on minerals like copper, zinc, and lithium to power clean energy systems, digital technologies,...
Mongolia’s Critical Minerals: Opportunities, Challenges, and Global Strategic Potential
Mongolia, one of Asia’s largest countries by land area, is endowed with extensive mineral wealth, including copper, coal, fluorspar, gold, iron, tungsten, uranium, zinc, lithium,...
Norway’s Arctic seabed mining plans under fire amid environmental concerns and legal action
Norway is moving forward with plans to open its Arctic seabed to mining for critical metals, including copper, cobalt, zinc and rare earths, which are...
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kipushi zinc-copper mine reopens
The Kipushi zinc-copper-lead-germanium mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially reopened, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by President Félix Tshisekedi. This high-grade...
Boliden nears deal to acquire Lundin Mining’s zinc assets, strengthening European production
Boliden, the Swedish mining company, is close to finalizing a deal to acquire two mines—Zinkgruvan in Sweden and Neves-Corvo in Portugal—from Lundin Mining, according to...
