The Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, outlining the latest status of the restoration and reconstruction of damaged industrial infrastructure, announced the return of the majority of petrochemical and steel units to the production cycle and guaranteed stable supply of steel sheets for downstream industries.

Generation Mining has started with construction of the Marathon copper/palladium project, in Ontario.

Nordic Compass, a competitiveness-focused business alliance, is considering branching out into critical raw materials to build up the region’s capacity to process minerals needed by European industry.

Having experienced an unplanned turbine outage at its Lake Superior Power facility, Algoma Steel expects a 65% drop in its third-quarter steel shipments.

The market for the raw material needed to produce aluminium is both huge and highly opaque despite the best efforts of both exchanges and price reporting agencies.

The US Department of Defence's (DoD's) Defence Logistics Agency has awarded Texas-based Supra Elemental Recovery a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract to advance the recovery of scandium.

Supervisors at BHP's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, rejected a collective contract offer on Wednesday, paving the way for a potential strike at the Chilean mine.

Australia's Lynas Rare Earths said on Thursday it would acquire Meteoric Resources in a A$968-million ($672-million) all-share deal for the Brazil-based miner, adding a new source of heavy rare earths to the top Western supplier.

Lithium Argentina has confirmed the viable potential of a Stage 2 expansion project at Cauchari-Olaroz, in Argentina.

Radiant World is cutting staff beyond its core iron ore business after a Singapore court last week took control of the troubled commodity trader away from its founder.