The Latest Breaking News from Mining

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image of a brown hyena outside a ruined diamond mining town.

The shot in an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia took a decade to capture.

Gold’s 2025 rally has been nothing less than spectacular. A recent Thematic Research report by CFRA identifies the iShares MSCI Global Metals Mining Producers ETF (BATS:PICK) as having favorable implications, directing attention to its exposure to international metals and mining producers that are benefiting from the rise in gold prices.

Miners on Tuesday are gathering outside the Labor Department building to protest the Trump administration’s response to black lung.

As gold prices approach the unprecedented $4,200 mark, two mid-tier gold mining companies, Iamgold Corp. (NYSE:IAG) and SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ:SSRM), are not just riding the commodity rally; they are also showing notable improvement in their operational quality.

Plus, why gold miners don’t always outperform gold in times of trouble.

On the FTSE 100, gold miners Fresnillo and Endeavour Mining leapt 9.1% and 11% respectively.

At the foot of the Andes, a Canadian firm has plans for one of the country’s biggest copper mines, but many say the carbon-rich forests and clean rivers are too high a price to pay

Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, rare earth elements, and platinum group metals are essential for modern technologies. They are key to industries ranging from electronics and telecommunications to renewable energy, defence, and aerospace systems.

Pressure is mounting on Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama to declare a state of emergency as environmental degradation caused by illegal mining reaches critical levels.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark Inc (NASDAQ:CLSK) seems "serious" about building an HPC (high-performance computing) pipeline, according to Needham.