Mining

News about the mining industry, mineral exploration, strategic minerals, job creation, mining companies, and the environment.

While other countries compete for clean energy minerals, the USA looks to Brazil and promises to seek financing for projects involving rare earths, lithium, nickel, and graphite.

Geovane Souza 12/06/2026 at 20:20

The mining company was drilling hundreds of meters below the already mapped area in Pará when it discovered new copper and gold zones in Furnas, a project that could operate for 24 years alongside Vale.

Geovane Souza 12/06/2026 at 10:26

Rare earths, million-dollar compensation, and a farm in Goiás: understand the case in which a rural producer accuses Serra Verde of occupying his property while the legal dispute drags on for years

Caio Aviz 09/06/2026 at 19:44

China confirms the existence of a never-before-seen mineral, found in a deposit with a concentration 80 times above the global standard, which promises to reshape the battery industry and the global competition for strategic minerals.

Noel Budeguer 07/06/2026 at 13:08

The northern region of Santa Catarina could become a new hub for strategic minerals after the Geological Survey of Brazil found high concentrations of rare earths in Joinville and Garuva, with a focus on neodymium, used in magnets that drive electric motors and turbines, although mining still depends on further studies.

Bruno Teles 02/06/2026 at 16:56

Rare earth mining in Minas becomes a legal case after suspicion of radioactivity above the limit and may change the course of licensing.

Viviane Alves 01/06/2026 at 23:30

Illegal gold from the Amazon gains an appearance of legality with empty authorizations and moves a fortune that challenges federal oversight.

Viviane Alves 01/06/2026 at 23:06

Giant trucks with no one in the cabin have already moved more than 8.6 billion tons of rock and ore around the world, equivalent to more than a thousand Great Pyramids, all without a single recorded injury.

Douglas Avila 27/05/2026 at 20:48

The largest precious metals mine under construction in the world is situated on a layer of ore 25 times thicker than common mines in South Africa, and has just connected a third shaft that will quintuple the extraction of platinum, palladium, and gold.

Douglas Avila 26/05/2026 at 23:56

The most abundant mineral on Earth makes up about 38% of the planet’s volume and dominates the mantle hundreds of kilometers deep, but it is so inaccessible that humanity only managed to touch it thanks to a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1879.

Bruno Teles 26/05/2026 at 19:05

China wants to transform coal waste into a source of critical metals and use industrial ash to extract germanium, lithium, gallium, and aluminum used in batteries, chips, and electric vehicles.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 24/05/2026 at 21:01

Without producing a single ton of copper today, Argentina wants to become one of the ten largest producers of the metal in the world by 2035, betting on the Andes deposits and billion-dollar incentives from the Milei government to unlock projects that have been stalled for decades.

Bruno Teles 22/05/2026 at 13:42