One of China’s oldest and most reliable business partners in Latin America, the nation of Chile, just elected a hardline conservative who supports a military overthrow of the Venezuelan socialist regime, a core Chinese ally, as its president.
President Donald Trump signed a critical minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, a team-up explicitly intended to break China’s near-monopoly on mining and refining the valuable resources.
The African island nation of Madagascar is undergoing its second coup in less than 20 years, as massive protests led by an energetic youth movement appear to have toppled the government of President Andry Rajoelina.
President Donald Trump took action Monday to reverse a Biden-era decision on Ambler Road, which would provide access to the Ambler Mining District in northern Alaska, an area rich in copper and other key minerals, including gold and silver.
A South African environmental services company called Drizit, hired to help clean up the spill of toxic waste from a Chinese copper mine in Zambia in February, issued a statement on Friday that claimed the mine owners are concealing the full extent of the massive ecological damage from the incident.
A federal court on Monday blocked the the transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to two international companies for the state’s Resolution Copper project.
The U.S. embassy in Zambia has ordered all U.S. government personnel to avoid the area around the Chinese-owned mine near the northern city of Kitwe because “hazardous and carcinogenic substances” released during an accident six months ago may have polluted the atmosphere.
The African nation of Ghana accuses Chinese nationals of running illegal gold mines in addition to the billions China has invested.
Nigerian Mining Minister Dele Alake announced on Monday that his government will commission two large lithium processing plants from Chinese firms this year, one of them valued at $600 million and the other at $200 million.
A rapid 14-day environmental review has seen a new uranium mine approved in Utah. The endorsement is part of a refreshed Trump administration process to fast-track permissions for energy and mining projects.
Over 180 miners remain trapped in a South African gold mine after its hoist system was damaged in an accident.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April that sought to protect America’s “leadership in deep sea science and technology” by authorizing mineral exploration on the ocean floor.
The Ethiopian Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday that a two-day investment conference in Addis Ababa produced $1.7 billion dollars in investment deals, most of them from Chinese companies.
Police arrested two Chinese nationals on Sunday while trespassing on the grounds of the Kangankunde Rare Earths Project in Malawi.
A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.
A Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia suffered an accident in mid-February that dumped about fifty million liters of acid waste into the local water table, creating both an environmental disaster and a diplomatic rupture between Zambia and China.
Zelensky will sign a rare earths deal with Trump on Friday, formalising the future economic relationship between the two countries.
A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in jail for participating in illegal gold mining operations.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday filed criminal complaints against subsidiaries of electronics giant Apple in France and Belgium, accusing them of using “blood minerals” sourced to mines controlled by armed gangs in the eastern DRC.
A professor specialising in “inhuman geography” at a British university has declared the subject of geology as racist, claiming it has been unduly influenced by colonisation.
The government of South Africa said on Thursday it will not assist a group of illegal miners who became trapped in a mine shaft with minimal supplies after police sealed off the entrance.
Zhao Xing, China’s ambassador to Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Beijing will soon offer “zero-tariff” trade to the Taliban regime.
U.S. Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez on Monday accused China of over-producing lithium in a predatory scheme to push down market prices and drive competing suppliers out of business.
The devastation in a small North Carolina down from Hurricane Helene may cause unexpected issues to the semiconductor production industry, as nearly all of the world’s supply of a necessary mineral comes from that area.
The Chinese government issued record-high mining quotas for rare earth minerals this week, reaching a new high of 270,000 tons that exceeds 2023’s total by 5.88 percent.
Nicaragua’s communist regime awarded its first open-pit mining lease to a Chinese company, state media confirmed on Tuesday.
Nicaragua’s communist regime has granted control of the nation’s gold mines to China in dubious and expedited procedures, the Argentine news outlet Infobae reported over the weekend.
Venezuela’s socialist regime signed a deal with Turkey that will allow the Middle Eastern nation to mine gold in the Orinoco Mining Arc.
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers ordered a Chinese investment fund to sell off shares of a strategic rare-earths mining company.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that the Biden administration had to loosen restrictions on eligibility for tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for electric vehicles containing components from China, Russia, North Korea,
At least 13 miners have been trapped in a collapsed gold mine in far eastern Russia, regional officials said Tuesday.
During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, White House National Climate Adviser and Assistant to President Joe Biden Ali Zaidi stated that under the Biden administration, we can produce “many more of the products that will be needed to
Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.
A mining convoy in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was attacked by unknown assailants, killing four, including two Chinese nationals.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization held a press conference on Thursday to sign contracts the terrorists claimed were worth more than $6.5 billion, giving Chinese, British, Iranian, and Turkish companies access to Afghanistan’s vast mineral wealth.
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland responded to concerns that a new national monument around the Grand Canyon designated by President Joe Biden earlier that day will block uranium mining and increase American dependence on China and Russia
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Tuesday that while the international community is nervously monitoring the brutal war between factions of the Sudanese junta and scrambling to deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster, Communist China is moving full speed ahead with plans to “advance its own interests” in Sudan’s oil and mineral resources.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday filed a gloomy report on Chile’s plans to nationalize its lithium industry, which would freeze Beijing out of exploiting the vital “green energy” mineral. The editors vacillated between warning Chile that it courts disaster, and huffing that China doesn’t really need Chile’s lithium output.
Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric announced plans to nationalize the country’s lithium industry in a national broadcast on Thursday evening.
A crew of as-yet unidentified gunmen attacked a Chinese-operated gold mine in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Sunday, killing nine Chinese nationals and injuring two more.
