Critical minerals, claims, commodities, and the operations reshaping the global supply chain. Coverage spans the majors, the juniors, and the geopolitical competition driving it all.
Edited by the Stake & Paper Editorial Team — 455 stories in the archive, updated daily.
Subscribe to MiningThe mining sector sits at the center of the global energy transition, supplying the critical minerals -- lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and uranium -- that underpin electrification and grid-scale storage. Our coverage follows exploration activity, permitting timelines, commodity price swings, and the geopolitical competition for mineral supply chains. From major producers to junior explorers, this section tracks the operational and financial forces reshaping the industry.
Magna Mining approves a Levack nickel-copper restart in Sudbury while Army-backed graphite, EU-backed copper, a Chilean strike and Ivanhoe's output guidance shape the day's mining news.
The Thursday session closed with sharp moves at both ends of the leaderboard, leaving oil producers, miners and clean energy funds with little in common.
Oil majors, gold miners and clean energy funds each sent their own signal at Wednesday's close, with bullion and uranium adding to the cross-currents.
Copper and gold resource updates are posting big tonnage gains, but much of the growth comes from the price deck, not the drill bit. Read the grade and the footnote before the headline.
A look at how oil majors, miners, precious metals and clean energy names lined up at the close, and what the spread between the best and worst performers says about the tape.
Every unpatented mining claim across all twelve BLM states. Leadfile audits, due diligence, site selection, regional prospecting, entity investigations, and AOI monitoring — delivered as complete report packages.
Discovery Mining's federal permits for Cordero lead a day of announcements that also covered a Nevada lithium study, a Mississippi nickel refinery, a Chilean copper expansion and a stalled British Columbia gold mill.
Esri's newest GIS release makes old maps cheaper to digitise, and the USGS has just shown how much untouched ground the archives describe. The bottleneck is whether anyone can trust the output.
Monday's session produced a spread of outcomes across producers, miners and clean-energy funds, with individual names mattering more than any single sector theme.
Greenland's approval of Critical Metals' Tanbreez mining and closure plans leads a day of announcements from nickel, lithium, potash and gold projects trying to move from study to construction.
London's freely available silver has climbed 70% since October 2025, and Deutsche Bank now talks of oversupply. JPMorgan and the Silver Institute still see a deficit.
Satellite radar now watches every pit and tailings dam for free, and past failures were visible in it beforehand. The shortage is people who can tell the creep that kills from the creep that doesn't.
Beijing's antitrust regulator is reportedly asking Anglo American for a steady supply of copper concentrate before it blesses the Teck merger. The ask exposes how short Chinese smelters are of feedstock.
Producers, miners and renewable developers closed the week on separate footings, with the move in each group set by its own commodity and policy drivers.
Petra Diamonds weighs a sale and Mountain Province hands its Gahcho Kué stake to De Beers, while Sigma Lithium halts operations in Brazil and KGHM and South32 start their Sierra Gorda expansion.
Thursday's close showed the energy trade sorting itself by individual story, with producers, miners and clean-energy funds each telling a different tale.
This week in energy: Washington presses Europe to release diesel from strategic stocks, KGHM and South32 start the Sierra Gorda copper expansion in Chile, and UK electric-car sales climb as the ZEV mandate bites.
Gold and silver fell on the last trading day of the third quarter and took the big gold miners with them, while MP Materials rose 4.09% and the oil majors finished mixed.
A steep slide in Chinese lithium futures has not stopped projects with licences and fiscal certainty from raising capital. Sigma Lithium shows that a court order can stop a producer whatever the price.
Gold Fields' Windfall project in Quebec has hit a permitting wall even as CEO Mike Fraser defends a contested Northern Star takeover bid and a Ghana lease dispute, while Panama edges toward a negotiated Cobre Panama restart and Glencore secures approval to mine coal in Australia through 2045.
With refined supply tightening and China's smelters slowing to a crawl, copper capital has stopped waiting for finished mines and started funding tailings piles, unbuilt deposits and government treaties instead.
