Mining

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

It looks like Australia, but it’s Pará: the Amazonian city that became one of Brazil’s largest copper hubs and entered the global route of critical minerals for the energy transition.

Valdemar Medeiros 16/04/2026 at 03:43

While the USA goes to the Moon in search of energy, China silently explores an abundant stone on Earth capable of generating energy for the next 60,000 years.

Alisson Ficher 16/04/2026 at 02:18

An excavation the size of an entire city has opened a hole of 44 km² in Germany, descending nearly 300 meters below sea level and creating an “artificial scar” so colossal that it can be seen from space while continuing to advance over everything around it.

Valdemar Medeiros 16/04/2026 at 01:28

The technique that few know in mining freezes the soil for months to create an underground wall of ice capable of blocking invisible rivers, preventing landslides, and allowing excavations in areas that would collapse instantly.

Valdemar Medeiros 16/04/2026 at 01:23

The USA and Australia reach a billion-dollar agreement of $3.5 billion, focusing on the refining of strategic rare earth metals, nickel, gallium, graphite, magnesium, and tungsten to challenge China’s dominance in critical minerals.

Flavia Marinho 13/04/2026 at 20:11

Brazil exported tons of rare earth mining to Canada last week and is targeting the United States and China to sell critical minerals used in permanent magnets, electronics, electric vehicles, wind turbines, nuclear energy, and defense.

Flavia Marinho 13/04/2026 at 17:42

The government may create a state-owned company rival to Vale in Brazil to explore rare earths, which are highly sought after by the USA and China due to their significance in today’s global technology landscape.

Alisson Ficher 13/04/2026 at 13:55

The exploration of rare earths, lithium, copper, tin, and other critical minerals has surged in the last five years, encroaching on 278 indigenous lands, and the mining boom raises alarms in Brazil.

Flavia Marinho 11/04/2026 at 21:48

Under layers of ice that feed entire rivers, Argentina paves the way to explore copper, lithium, and gold in regions of extreme altitude and could unlock up to $165 billion in exports, placing one of the largest freshwater reserves in South America at the center of a new global mineral rush.

Valdemar Medeiros 11/04/2026 at 20:14

With nodules rich in nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese scattered up to 6,000 meters deep, a $1 billion merger creates a giant in underwater mining and accelerates the global race for critical metals hidden on the ocean floor.

Valdemar Medeiros 11/04/2026 at 19:43

A machine capable of removing up to 12,000 cubic meters of earth per hour helps to feed part of the European energy matrix, and this mining colossus almost never appears when discussing the real cost of electricity.

Débora Araújo 10/04/2026 at 14:09

In Kerala, India, known as “the land of God,” dredging machines are extracting sand from rivers 40 times faster than nature can replenish it, riverbeds have already dropped nearly 2 meters, rivers have begun to dry up, and scientists who investigated the floods of 2018 discovered that decades of uncontrolled mining have weakened the rivers to the point where they can no longer contain the water.

Valdemar Medeiros 09/04/2026 at 13:46