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Lynas Posts Record $703M Revenue as Capex Overrun Exposes Rare Earth Equipment Trap
8+ hour, 36+ min ago (221+ words) Investors focused on near-term operational issues — the sulfuric acid cost spike, ramp-up inefficiencies at the Kalgoorlie cracking facility, and the scale of the Malaysian expansion overrun — rather than on the underlying strategic position, which by most measures has rarely looked…...
Every Other Country Said No: Namibia Just Approved World's First Seabed Phosphate Mine
9+ hour, 1+ min ago (275+ words) What was not expected — not by scientists, not by the fishing industry, and apparently not by Namibia's own cabinet — was the clearance appearing without consultation. Ministry spokesperson Vilho Hangula confirmed only that the certificate is authentic and that further communication…...
Northam Opens Platinum Auction as Russian Supply Slump Makes South Africa Irreplaceable
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1178+ words) Tech Times...
Australian Leach Patent Doubles Heavy Rare Earth Recovery Where Acid Chemistry Fails
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (541+ words) The Western world has spent two years and billions of dollars building downstream solutions to a rare earth supply chain that has a chemistry problem no one has publicly solved: the conventional acid leach used by every non-Chinese project recovers…...
Autonomous Trucks Take Over Salobo: FrontRunner Returns to Copper at Scale
1+ week, 1+ day ago (222+ words) Vale Base Metals has stated a target of approximately 700,000 tonnes of copper production per year by 2035, supported largely by Brazilian assets in the Carajás region, where VBM holds mineral reserves and resources exceeding 53 million tonnes of contained copper. Salobo — Brazil's…...
Indonesia Smelter Failure Extends Copper Record Rally as Global Stockpiles Near Crisis
2+ week, 1+ day ago (520+ words) The Chile disruption has deeper roots and longer consequences than any single smelter outage. Beginning around July 18, an unusually severe winter storm swept across Chile's copper belt — a stretch of central and northern mine country that accounts for roughly a…...
Dashjr Ousted as Bitcoin BIP Editor; BIP 3 Still Has No Written Removal Rule
2+ week, 1+ day ago (275+ words) To understand what triggered the removal motion, it helps to understand what BIP-110 was and what Dashjr's three simultaneous roles in it were. Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed the motion at 2:53 PM ET on Sunday, August 9, posting to the Bitcoin Developer…...
US Critical Minerals: Government-Equity Mining Fund Opens Battery Chain to Pension Capital
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1283+ words) Tech Times...
BIP-110 Minority Chain Frozen as Backers' Algorithm Plan Would Make Mining Rigs Worthless
2+ week, 2+ day ago (599+ words) Bitcoin's most contentious governance fight in nearly a decade produced a two-block ghost chain over the weekend of August 8–9, 2026 — and by Monday morning, its backers had announced something more radical than the original proposal: a plan to change Bitcoin's proof-of-work…...
Copper Mine Closed for 29 Years Reopens With Fully Autonomous Underground Fleet in Sweden
2+ week, 6+ day ago (167+ words) Viscaria sat dormant for nearly three decades. The mine operated from 1982 until 1997, when falling global copper prices made it uneconomical to run. Gruvaktiebolaget Viscaria — formerly known as Copperstone Resources AB until its May 2024 renaming — acquired the asset in 2019 and has…...