Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSibanye Retires $675 Million in Debt, Western Copper Smelters Face a Negative-Fee Crisis, and Pan American Silver Hits a Record Cash Balance
Today on The Mining Insider: Sibanye-Stillwater launched tender offers on May 6 to retire all $675 million outstanding of its 4% senior notes due 202…
5 months, 1 week ago
Australia's Biggest Gold Merger, a Fatal Shaft Accident at Sibanye, and Pakistan's Insurgency Puts Barrick's Reko Diq in Question
Today on The Mining Insider: Regis Resources and Vault Minerals announced a 100% all-scrip merger creating a combined company with a pro forma market…
5 months, 1 week ago
ADB Backs a $1 Billion Minerals Push, Anglo Teck Gets the Green Light, and Nickel Climbs to a Two-Year High
Today on The Mining Insider: The Asian Development Bank launched its Critical Minerals-to-Manufacturing Financing Partnership Facility at its 59th an…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Uzbekistan Pulls the Navoi IPO, Byproducts Make Copper Free to Mine, and Chile's Acid Clock Is Ticking
Today on The Mining Insider: Work on the IPO of Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Company — Uzbekistan's state-owned gold miner and the world's fourth-l…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Venezuela's Mineral Opening, Seabed Mining's Legal Breakthrough, and Ontario's Defence Pivot
Today on The Mining Insider: Mercuria Energy Group and Heeney Capital announced May 1 that they had secured White House-backed offtake agreements for…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
China Cuts the Acid Supply, First Quantum Takes the Hit, and Brazil Draws a Line on Critical Minerals
Today on The Mining Insider: China's ban on sulphuric acid exports takes effect today, May 1 — a structural disruption that threatens roughly a fifth…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
First Quantum's Zambia Reckoning, Fortescue's China Deal, and the DRC's New Mining Army
Today on The Mining Insider: First Quantum Minerals released its first quarter 2026 financial and operating results on April 28, with Sentinel's ball…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
CMOC's Ecuador Bet, Fortescue's China Iron Ore Standoff, and Tía María's Long-Awaited Green Light
China's CMOC Group signed a $1.7 billion mining contract with Ecuador on April 27 for the Los Cangrejos gold-silver project in El Oro province, devel…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Brazil's Supreme Court Challenge, Luanshya's 20-Year Comeback, and the US-Brazil Minerals Deal in Trouble
Brazil's Rede Sustentabilidade party petitioned the country's Supreme Court on April 25 to suspend the $2.8 billion acquisition of Serra Verde Group …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lobito Copper Rail Gets Funded, Agnico Eagle Bets $3.7 Billion on Finland, and China Eyes Myanmar's Mines
The 830-kilometer Lobito Corridor railway — the biggest new build in Zambia since the 1970s — secured $1.32 billion in committed financing at a Nairo…
5 months, 3 weeks ago