October 2025

Saudi Arabia’s Maaden, one of the world’s fastest-growing mining companies, has awarded a major Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) contract to Bechtel for its Ar Rjum gold mine. The announcement follows…

Phoenix Tailings says it has opened one of the first domestic rare earth metallisation facilities with zero reliance on Chinese inputs, equipment, or technology in the US. Initially, the facility will produce 200 tons (181 t) of both light…

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources (MIM) has announced that exploration spending increased fivefold in four years, reaching SAR1.05 billion ($280.5 million) in 2024, up from SAR501 million in 2023 and SAR205 million…

Epiroc says it has successfully converted – from manual to fully driverless – all 78 mining haul trucks at Hancock Iron Ore’s Roy Hill mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The conversions – using Epiroc’s LinkOA system – are a…

Cornish Lithium, in a first for the UK, has started production of refined lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) from lithium extracted from granite in Cornwall. In an end-to-end industrial process, the company is repurposing a former china…

 The Bitcoin price just flipped the switch again. After dipping early, the BTC USD pair ripped back above $110,000 as it hit the “resume the bull run” button. The charts show it kissed $108K before whales piled in. Not long after, ETH…

It’s hard to talk about crypto AI without mentioning the NEAR Protocol. Last year, the NEAR Protocol really took off because of Nvidia and everything the chipset manufacturer planned to do. That momentum was supposed to sustain the…

The Alpha Arena experiment on Nof1.ai turned out to be way bigger than anyone expected. In our last piece, we talked about how it first caught the attention of big names like CZ from Binance. Well, it looks like the hype isn’t slowing down…

TON price is gaining renewed attention as Telegram crypto ecosystem developments converge with growing institutional cash flows, prompting the question: could Toncoin (TON) stage a comeback driven by major treasury plays and overall altcoin…

ADA price is under significant pressure, with Cardano crypto trading near $0.62 amid a wider crypto pullback and weak altcoin sentiment. Recently, the Cardano Foundation announced plans to apply for the generic top-level domains (gTLDs)…