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2025 March 26

Mali expects rise in gold output in 2025 on reopened Barrick ...

Mali is forecasting a slight recovery in industrial gold output in 2025 on the assumption that mining giant Barrick Gold ...

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2025 March 25

Gold rally attracts investors back to mining stocks after months ...

Funds that invest in gold miners are set to attract their largest net monthly inflows in more than a year in March, as ...

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2025 March 25

Former Newmont executive tapped to oversee mining on US energy ...

Former Newmont executive David Copley has been tapped to oversee the mining portfolio for the U.S. National Energy Dominance ...

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2025 March 21

Trump invokes emergency powers to boost U.S. critical minerals ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday invoked emergency powers to boost domestic production of critical minerals used ...

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2025 March 21

Kentucky’s Honaker wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Rick Honaker, Ph.D., professor of mining engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, ...

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2025 March 19

Panama’s economic growth slows to 2.9 percent in 2024 after key ...

Panama’s gross domestic product grew 2.9 percent in 2024, significantly slowing from the previous year’s 7.4 ...

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2025 March 19

ICMM publishes new guidance to help mining and metals companies ...

According to the 2024 Living Planet Report, wildlife populations have seen a 73 percent average decline from 1970 through ...

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2025 March 19

Rio Tinto backs dual-listed structure, asks shareholders to ...

Mining major Rio Tinto on Wednesday backed its dual-listed structure and asked shareholders to vote against London-based ...

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2025 March 18

Epiroc wins large order for battery-electric vehicles for ...

Epiroc AB, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and construction industries, has won a large ...

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2025 March 17

Russia plans to launch large-scale lithium production in 2030

Russia plans to produce at least 60,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate in 2030, the natural resources ministry said on ...

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