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Indonesia should think twice about China’s bauxite rush

Indonesia has seen this movie before. It begins with a surge of foreign capital, accelerates with a rush to build smelters and ends with an industry struggling under its own weight...

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find

HALMAHERA, Indonesia — New research examining Indonesia’s vast nickel-processing regions has documented rising rates of ill health and workplace harm linked to a key industry suppl...

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

JAKARTA — In February 2026, videos circulating on social media showed a mass of mining waste rushing downslope like thick mud, engulfing excavators and bulldozers within seconds as...

Christchurch company opens metal-refining facility

London Metal Exchange must recognize Indonesia’s aluminum boom

There are a multitude of reasons why the London Metal Exchange should approve China’s Tsingshan Holding Group’s request to register aluminum produced in Indonesia. Not because mark...

Indonesia bets on nickel levy to break its China habit

Indonesia’s sweeping nickel downstreaming policy, launched in 2020, is entering a more consequential phase. Having successfully halted raw ore exports, the government is now prepar...

MSP Targetkan Penggunaan Energi Terbarukan 100% di Fasilitas Smelter

PT Mitra Stania Prima (MSP) yang merupakan bagian dari grup Arsari Tambang, mempercepat transformasi operasional menuju penggunaan energi bersih untuk mendukung target emisi nol be...

Dalaroo Metals hires top gun to fast-track Greenland rare earths

Dalaroo Metals hires top gun to fast-track Greenland rare earths

ReElement processes tungsten concentrate to 99.9% purity

Japan's Sumitomo Metal, Sojitz look to Southeast Asia for rare earths

Infinity Mining eyes $1.5b e-waste market to boost NSW copper play

Infinity Mining eyes $1.5b e-waste market to boost NSW copper play

Chalco agrees to build alumina plant in Guinea for $1bn

Aluminum Corp of China, the country’s largest State-owned producer of the lightweight metal, has agreed to invest $1-billion in an alumina plant in Guinea to tap local bauxite reso...

A prairie town in Oklahoma is slated to become the country's biggest aluminum producer

The Inola smelter is expected to produce 750,000 tonnes of aluminum per year. (Modern Metals photo)"Hay Capital of the World" is how many residents of Inola, Oklahoma, describe the...

U.S., Australia back rare earths refinery with up to $600M in potential funding

Japan's Sumitomo Corp. to sell its Madagascar nickel mine business

Japan’s Sumitomo to divest stake in Madagascar nickel project

Sumitomo Corp plans to sell its majority stake in the Ambatovy nickel project in Madagascar following a review of market conditions. The Japanese trading house said it will divest...

Australia's Arafura rare-earth project to start construction in September

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM) Unit Commits $275M to Secure Gold Supplies in Australia

Alcoa faces more federal scrutiny over Willowdale mine clearing

Documents released under freedom of information laws reveal Alcoa’s Willowdale mine is currently being investigated over land clearing.

BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

Exclusive: Jimblebar processing facility would have produced higher quality iron ore sought by steelmakers around the world – themselves under pressure to curb pollutionWorld’s big...

NavPrakriti To Establish ₹100 Crore Critical Minerals Refining Facility In Odisha, Boosting India’s Circular Economy

NavPrakriti, a lithium-ion battery recycling and refurbishment firm, has announced plans to invest over ₹100 crore in establishing a critical minerals refining facility in Odisha....

Trafigura partners with Egyptalum, MIH to build aluminium smelter in Egypt

Global commodities group Trafigura has entered into exclusive negotiations with the Egyptian Aluminium Company (Egyptalum) and the Metallurgical Industries Holding Company (MIH) to...

Hillside’s marks 30 years amid push for long-term power solution

Diversified miner South32’s Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, could continue operating for another 20 to 30 years if a competitive long-term electricity ag...

Inside the Malaysian factory supplying the world’s most critical minerals worth RM395,000 a bag

GEBENG, April 22 — Workers load tonnes of rare earth minerals into bags ready for shipping at a refinery in easter...