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A consortium led by French productivity solutions company for hydrogen Novacium, together with open innovation chemistry platform Axel'One and gas engineering company AD-VENTA, have secured funding... 

Western countries could achieve an acceptable level of rare earths diversification away from China within three to five years, France's top envoy for strategic metals said on Wednesday.... 

Australia will refresh its critical minerals strategy to place greater emphasis on refining and processing, a senior Minister said on Tuesday, as competition for investment intensifies and... 

ASX-listed Lotus Resources has secured the final key approval required for the transportation and export of its first shipment of uranium product from Malawi, through Zambia and then Namibia,... 

Malaysia has given the go-ahead for a batch of unprocessed rare earths to be exported, the first approval under a new framework designed to permit testing and potentially encourage investments in... 

South Africa is already implementing various reforms to improve the performance of State-owned enterprises like Eskom and Transnet and, thereby, drive higher growth rates. With progress evident in... 

France is set to become Eramet's largest shareholder by increasing its stake during a €500-million ($558.50-million) capital increase later this year, the French mining group said on Monday.... 

Vancouver-based private gold and strategic metals exploration company Aquitaine Metals has completed a nonbrokered strategic private placement with Kinross Gold Corporation and Latin American miner... 

Canada could pursue an energy partnership with France involving liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Pacific coast, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said on Monday, a day after leaders of the... 

President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday welcomed a new chapter in ties with Canada after the two countries agreed to forge deeper ties with the French leader saying bilateral talks were opening to see... 

Canadian industrial technologies developer HPQ Silicon has announced its strategic partner, French technology company Novacium, will work together with a French subsidiary of Japan's Tokai Carbon... 

Horizon Europe, which is the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation, has launched a new project called CIRCUIT4EU to recover critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from... 

ASX-listed Lindian Resources has signed a technology and engineering services agreement, as well as a long-term binding offtake agreement, with global rare earth processing and separation company... 

ASX-listed Apollo Minerals has identified additional zones of tungsten mineralisation at the Couflens project, in France, which has expanded the targeting footprint of the historical Salau mine and... 

Specialist industrial services contractor KAEFER has been in continuous service of State-owned power utility Eskom for 30 years. KAEFER South Africa MD Jayson Cleaver says the relationship with... 

Geopolitical instability, the race to secure critical minerals supply chains, rising demand for key resources and the rapid deployment of AI are reshaping the global mining industry – and putting a... 

Canadian oil and gas producer Gran Tierra Energy said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell its Colombian and Ecuadorean oil operations to France's Maurel & Prom for $1.33-billion, including debt.... 

Europe’s biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region’s heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a series of heat waves. As water levels in the Rhine and Danube fall toward... 

USA Rare Earth finalised a deal on Thursday to buy a minority stake in France's Carester that will provide funds for expansion of a processing plant due to open later this year. The move is part...