The project will process and recover high-purity vanadium pentoxide from steelmaker SSAB's vanadium-bearing by-product. 

The Lithium, Battery, and Energy Metals 2022 is coming to Perth 14 - 15 September, and AusIMM are excited to share with you their fantastic program. With a plethora of 30+ standout presentations... 

TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals has appointed Nicola Spooner, an experienced environmental and social (E&S) advisory professional, to its board as a nonexecutive directors. Prior to joining Giyani,... 

Diversified engineering company Iritron has defied the odds brought on by supply chain challenges as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, by winning a multimillion-rand, cross-border project that... 

All major and long-lead-time process plant equipment contracts for the Araguaia project have been awarded. 

Fortune Minerals has secured an extension to the option period to buy the JFSL Field Services brownfield site, in Alberta, where it plans to build the NICO hydrometallurgical refinery. 

Pretoria-based automation company Iritron is involved in an expansion project at a manganese mine in Gabon. Owner Comilog is the world’s second largest high-grade manganese producer, says Iritron... 

Savannah has reported that the project faces an additional environmental licensing step. 

Nickel developer Horizonte Minerals has awarded all major and long-lead-time process plant equipment contracts for its flagship Araguaia project, in Brazil. Following completion of the competitive... 

The Nimba Development Company has started with a preliminary technical information exchange process with the government of Guinea. 

Battery anode materials company EcoGraf has appointed experienced executive Dale Harris as COO to drive the development of its integrated battery graphite businesses. Harris spent 20 years working... 

Lake Resources has appointed project finance institutions Citi and JP Morgan as joint coordinators for its Kachi lithium project. 

Alamos Gold is getting closer to completing an updated mine plan for its Island Gold mine. 

Kore Potash has started a detailed review of the optimisation study on the Kola project. 

Verder are delighted to announce that our Verderflex Dura 65 peristaltic hose pump has won the Global Business Excellence Award for Outstanding New Product/Service. The chairman of the judges said... 

Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with motoring major Ford Motor Company over the potential supply of lithium from the Kachi project. 

Kore Potash has received an enhancement study for its Kola project. 

A three- to six-month delay in POX-2’s original schedule is expected, mostly owing to logistical challenges.  

OZ Minerals has announced a decision to increase the hoisting shaft capacity at Prominent Hill. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed its first geothermal energy offtake agreement at its Zero Carbon lithium project. 

Lake Resources has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Hanwa Co for the supply of up to 25 000 t/y of lithium carbonate over a ten-year period from the Kachi project. 

Alamos Gold has been approved to ramp up construction activities on the Island Gold Phase 3 expansion. 

The Nimba project is considered one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

Lake Resources has confirmed that the production base case on the Kachi project will be increased in the definitive feasibility to be released in mid-2022.  

Kore Potash expects to finalise an optimisation study report for the Kola project before the end of the quarter. 

Fortune Minerals has selected a site for its proposed brownfield hydrometallurgical refinery for the NICO project.  

Ivanhoe Liberia is developing what is considered to be one of the best undeveloped iron-ore resources in the world. 

Vulcan Energy Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding and termsheet with European chemicals producer Nobian to assess the feasibility of jointly developing Vulcan's central lithium plant. 

Queensland Pacific Minerals announced a A$30-million capital raise and conditional finance support from Export Finance Australia in December 2021 for up to A$250-million of debt funding for its... 

Toronto-based Innovation Metals Corporation (IMC) says commissioning of its demonstration-scale rare earth separation and purification pilot plant, in Ontario, will start in the first quarter of... 

Twelve more companies in the lithium supply chain including Rio Tinto, BASF and Sibanye Stillwater have joined a global trade association for the material used to make batteries for electric... 

Guinea-focused developer Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG) chairperson Guy de Selliers and SMFG CEO Mamady Youla have announced the positive findings of its prefeasibility study (PFS) for... 

Emerging African phosphate developer Kropz’s Elandsfontein project, in South Africa, remains on schedule, albeit tight, and within the original projected capital budget for commissioning next... 

Kore Potash has received an interim report from Summit Consortium of the results of an optimisation study on the Kola potash project. 

Fortune Minerals has announced that the all-season road – linking the isolated community of Whati, in Northwest Territories, to the national highway system – will open to the public on November 30. 

The West Coast district municipality, in the Western Cape, has issued a five-year air emissions licence to the Saldanha Iron Ore Terminal. The terminal handled more than 54-million tonnes of... 

Vulcan Energy has signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with cathode materials producer Umicore. 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

Production of the new-look Polo has started at Volkswagen’s manufacturing plant in Kariega. Vehicle models typically receive a makeover in the middle of their life cycle. 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

Canada’s Export Credit Agency has issued Lake Resources with a letter of intent to work alongside UK Export Finance to potentially fund up to 70% of the finance required for the Kachi project. 

Vulcan Energy has secured a site for its planned lithium hydroxide plant.