Lynas Rare Earths (LYSCF) (LYSDY) has presented plans to build a rare earth oxide separation plant in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, Mining.com reported Monday, as the government considers backing a ...

Brazil stands at the forefront of the global energy transition thanks to its vast reserves of critical minerals. These resources have fast become the focus of geopolitical debates in recent years, as ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...

At least 18 foreign companies, three of them American, are chasing Brazil rare earths with over US$3.5 billion spent or ...

SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian mining giant Vale says its iron ore transport operations have resumed, three days after protesting Indians blocked part of its railroad in northern Brazil. Earlier this week ...

FILE - A car and two dogs are on the roof of destroyed houses at the small town of Bento Rodrigues after a dam burst in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) ...

Brazil's Congress passed a bill Wednesday letting the government block foreign takeovers of mining companies and scrutinize who gets access to the country's mineral reserves…the thing is, ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

Mining giants responsible for a dam spill in Brazil earlier this month rejected Thursday accusations by the United Nations that “20,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic mud” spewed into a river. The ...