The Secondary Aluminum Coalition for America (SACA) is pushing secondary aluminium to the centre of US supply-chain strategy, arguing that recycling-based production can expand domestic aluminium capacity faster and more efficiently than new primary smelters. In this AL Circle interview, SACA...
Iron ore remains Rio Tinto's financial anchor, but growing exposure to aluminium, copper and lithium is changing how investors assess the diversified miner. Rio Tinto is attracting renewed attention among UK-listed metals and mining stocks as its expanding commodity mix creates a valuation picture...
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The Australian West Perth-based Impact Minerals Limited is set to release 12 million ordinary shares from escrow on July 27, 2026. This would mark a key milestone after the expiry of the initial escrow period related to its acquisition of an 80 per cent stake in Playa One Pty Ltd, the owner of the...
Rare earth minerals have moved from a niche group of metals to a strategically important resource that is vital to sectors from clean energy to consumer electronics, defence and advanced manufacturing. As demand rises and supply chains are dominated by a few countries, rare earths are being...
Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Union Minister for Coal and Mines, along with Shri Satish Chandra Dubey, Minister of State for Coal and Mines, launched the Eighth Tranche of e-auction of Critical and Strategic Mineral Blocks during the curtain raiser event of India Mining Week 2026. The launch marks another...
In partnership with the alumina and aluminium producer Alcoa Corporation, governments and industrial representatives of Australia, Japan and the US have reached the final investment decision (FID) for a project to establish a gallium production facility at Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery in...
USA Rare Earth has produced commercial-grade dysprosium (Dy) oxide and neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide samples from recycled rare earth magnet scrap at its Wheat Ridge, Colorado hydrometallurgical facility, marking a step forward in its rare earth processing operations. The company said the...
Electricity is the backbone of aluminium production, with the Hall-Héroult process ranking among the world's most electricity-intensive industrial activities. Even brief power disruptions can damage electrolytic cells and interrupt production, resulting in long-term financial losses, as the molten...
India is preparing to widen policy support for advanced chemistry cells (ACC) and battery recycling as it seeks to strengthen domestic battery manufacturing and reduce dependence on imported critical minerals. The proposed measures indicate that the government's focus is extending beyond cell...
DEScycle yesterday opened its first demonstration plant at Wilton Centre in Teesside, marking the first operational deployment of its distributed metals processing infrastructure platform and a significant step towards strengthening the UK’s domestic critical minerals supply chain. The UK...
Canada’s merchandise trade surplus expanded to CAD 4.2 billion in May 2026, its strongest level in four years, as a sharp rise in unwrought aluminium and aluminium alloy exports helped lift the country’s overall outbound trade to a record high. According to the latest data from Statistics Canada,...
Canada and Japan are deepening their critical minerals alliance, seeking to reduce their dependence on Chinese supplies. At Canada's largest-ever trade mission to Tokyo and the Asia-Pacific region, companies from both countries signed commercial agreements worth over CAD 1 billion (USD 706.11...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has funded USD 75 million to five pilot-scale projects aimed at extracting rare earth elements and other critical minerals, including aluminium, from coal waste and coal-based feedstocks. The initiative indicates the nation’s efforts to strengthen the domestic...
Momentum Technologies has achieved record purity levels in recovering rare earth elements (REEs) using its proprietary Membrane Solvent Extraction (MSX) technology. The Texas-based critical materials company recovered 99.9 per cent pure neodymium-praseodymium oxide from e-waste and magnet...
India’s state-owned National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is preparing for one of its largest expansion phases, with plans to invest INR 280-300 billion (USD 3.2-3.5 billion) over the next three to four years to ramp up aluminium production capacity while advancing its decarbonisation roadmap....
Competition in the US rare earth industry has intensified after MP Materials filed a lawsuit against USA Rare Earth, alleging that the company acquired confidential magnet-making technology through former employees. The dispute comes as the United States accelerates efforts to build a domestic rare...
The Ministry of Mines is set to launch a dedicated scheme to develop India’s battery minerals processing value chain as part of the Government’s broader vision of achieving Atmanirbhar Bharat in critical minerals. Addressing the one-day Conference on “India’s Critical Minerals Recycling Landscape”...
The UK government has announced a GBP 50 million (USD 66 million) investment to strengthen domestic production of critical minerals, as it seeks to reduce reliance on concentrated global supply chains and improve economic resilience. The funding is also expected to support sectors such as...
Vedanta post-demerger advances its expansion roadmap, set to double its aluminium business capacity to 6 million tonnes in the next three and a half years. Alongside that, the company has outlined a strategic shift towards critical minerals and strategic metals such as zinc, copper, nickel,...
Mecwin Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Germany-based Fraunhofer IWKS to support development and production of sintered neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets in India. The partnership is meant to augment India’s capabilities in manufacturing...
