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Spotlight: Projects to watch in 2026 – Part 2

Continuing price volatility with rare earths and copper, high costs, disputes over consultation and executive shakeups have some major projects facing uncertainty […]

Northern Miner Staff | December 4, 2025 | 1:02 pm

Interactive: Global uranium demand

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Anthony Vaccaro, with files from Ali Ravaghi | Creative design: James Alafriz | November 14, 2025 | 9:00 am

Freeport keeps Grasberg shut amid rescue operations

The company continues its efforts to rescue seven workers trapped…

Staff Writer | September 12, 2025 | 9:09 am

Opinion: 2025 – Halfway through the blockbuster decade

This has been some decade and we’re only halfway through! …

James Cooper | July 29, 2025 | 10:26 am

TMC shares surge on high-grade alloy production

The company produced high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt alloy and manganese silicate at…

Staff Writer | February 19, 2025 | 9:10 am

One of the world’s largest clean energy projects closer to becoming a reality

Multinational Sun Cable is one step closer to developing its massive Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) project – which will deliver up to 3.2 […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 30, 2021 | 6:06 am

New photo-battery harvests the sun, stores energy in a single device

A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an inexpensive, lightweight, and lead-free photo […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 17, 2021 | 6:15 am

Scientists develop low-cost, graphene-based method to remove uranium from drinking water

A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a highly efficient method for removing uranium from drinking water. In […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 12, 2021 | 6:06 am

Tin mine supply expected to grow through 2021 – report

A new outlook by Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research forecasts that tin mine supply will grow strongly in 2021 due […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 11, 2021 | 6:06 am

Purified tin selenide may be ideal to convert waste heat into energy – study

Researchers from Northwestern University in the US and Seoul National University in Korea have demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material in a practical […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 5, 2021 | 6:06 am

What countries would make if they sold their Olympic medals at current metal prices

If countries were to sell their Olympic medals at their current metal values, the US would beat the rest of the world […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 24, 2021 | 10:51 am

How transition metals destabilize high-energy-density Li-ion batteries

Researchers from Tohoku University and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute produced fresh insights about the release of oxygen in lithium-ion batteries, […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 22, 2021 | 6:06 am

Metal pollution, tourism threatening drinking water around Mount Everest

New research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, reveals that wind-transported metal pollution from mining paired with activities linked […]

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 12, 2021 | 6:06 am

Mediterranean silver likely traded during the Trojan War, the founding of Rome

Scientists used high-precision isotopic analysis to identify the ore sources of hacksilber that served as means of payment in the southern Levant.

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 10, 2021 | 2:13 pm

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Spotlight: Projects to watch in 2026 – Part 2

Interactive: Global uranium demand

Freeport keeps Grasberg shut amid rescue operations

Opinion: 2025 – Halfway through the blockbuster decade

TMC shares surge on high-grade alloy production

One of the world’s largest clean energy projects closer to becoming a reality

New photo-battery harvests the sun, stores energy in a single device

Scientists develop low-cost, graphene-based method to remove uranium from drinking water

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