El Salvador’s central bank has added about $50 million worth of gold to its reserves as part of the nation’s strategy to increase holdings of the metal.

Funds and speculators are having an outsize impact in the thin-volume tin trade, driving it to a series of record peaks in defiance of warnings from analysts and regulators that the market is growing overheated.

Battery minerals producer Liontown said on Thursday that strategic partner LG Energy Solution had elected to convert its entire $250-million convertible note into about 239-million fully paid ordinary shares.

Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., a major Chinese producer of the battery material, said it faces possible charges related to an ongoing insider-trading case.

Nickel miner PT Vale Indonesia Tbk said on Friday it was suspending mining activities in Southeast Asia’s largest economy due to delays in the approval of its annual production plan.

Gold and silver fell on the last trading day of 2025, though both remained on track for the biggest annual gain in more than four decades as a banner year for precious metals drew to a close.

Ramaco Resources (NASDAQ: METC) and US-based permanent magnets manufacturer Mulberry Industries have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to negotiate an offtake partnership that aims to bolster America’s domestic rare earth and permanent magnet supply chain.

United Arab Emirates-based bauxite producer Axis International has filed a $28.9 billion arbitration claim against Guinea at a World Bank tribunal after the government revoked its mining permit earlier this year.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will allow cobalt shipments under quotas set for the last three months of 2025 to take place until the end of March, the country’s mining regulator said, as preparations to implement its new quota system are protracted.

The global diamond business sank deeper in 2025 as weak demand, cheap lab-grown alternatives and geopolitical tensions combined to shake traditional mining to its core.