The Philippines is not yet structurally ready for large-scale downstream processing. If reserves decline before domestic smelters are built, while raw ore exports continue to generate short-term ...

Critical minerals are not secured by mining alone. Processing, refining, chemical conversion and manufacturing hold the real key to strategic autonomy ...

Sept 9 (Reuters) - India's Lohum said on Wednesday it had dispatched its first shipment of lithium ore from Zimbabwe, marking the start of its mining operations in the southern African country and ...

African governments and development financiers are intensifying efforts to convert the continent’s vast iron-ore reserves into domestic steel production and broader industrial growth, as global demand ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines' inclusion in Pax Silica could allow it to process its own nickel and break its dependence on China, which buys most of the country's ore at prices it "almost ...