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Metal

Titan Mining Announces $120M Financing Interest From Exim for Graphite Project

Titan Mining Corporation has announced that the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) has expressed interest in providing up to $120 million in financi…

Georgia

Georgia Is Increasing Its Purchases of Kazakh Wheat

Georgia has significantly increased wheat imports from Kazakhstan, purchasing almost 70,000 tons in the first seven months of 2025, a substantial rise from the …

Saudi Arabia

Stc, Solutions Sign $62M Deal to Expand Data Centres Across Saudi Arabia

Arabian Internet and Communications Services Company (Solutions) has signed a contract worth SAR 313.39 million (approximately $62 million) with Saudi Telecom C…

Metal

Savannah Shifts Exploration Drilling to Electric Light Deposit, Queensland

Savannah Goldfields has advanced its exploration drilling campaign at the Georgetown Gold Project in Far North Queensland, Australia, transitioning from the Big…

Solar Power Plant

China Three Gorges Commissions World’s Largest PV-CSP Solar Plant

China Three Gorges Group has connected to the grid a 1 GW hybrid concentrated solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) project in Hami, Xinjiang. The facility, d…

Italy

Brenner Base Tunnel Breaks Through to Connect Austria and Italy

Construction of the first tunnel linking Austria and Italy under the Alps has achieved a major milestone, breaking through approximately 1.4 km beneath the Bren…

Metal

US Defence Agency Reportedly Seeks to Buy Scandium Oxide From Rio Tinto

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has announced plans to purchase up to $40 million worth of scandium oxide from Rio Tinto over the next five years to str…

Crude Oil

China’s Sinopec Upgrading Xinjiang Refining and Chemical Projec

China’s Sinopec has launched construction work to upgrade its integrated refining and petrochemical project in Xinjiang, the company announced on Saturday…

China

DEME’s New Offshore Construction Vessel to Be Built in China, Delivery in 2028

DEME Group has placed an order for a new offshore construction vessel (OCV) designed for trenching, burial, and cable-laying operations, featuring a methanol-re…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Wins Approval to Test Autonomous Robotaxis in Arizona

Tesla has received approval to begin testing autonomous robotaxi vehicles with safety monitors in Arizona, according to an email from the state’s Departme…

Solar project

South Africa Deploys 928 MW of Solar in Q1

South Africa’s solar power sector recorded notable growth in the first quarter of this year, with approximately 928 MW of new capacity added, according to…

Battery

China Connects Largest Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Storage Plant

A 100MW hybrid frequency-regulation plant in northern Shanxi province, North China, was successfully connected to the grid at the end of August. The developers …

Carbon Emissions

India’s Power-Sector CO2 Emissions Fall for Second Time in Over Four Decades, Report Says

India’s carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, according to a report released by the Centre for…

Ultra-high voltage grid

China Starts Building Ultra-High Voltage Power Line From Xizang to Greater Bay Area

China has started construction of a large-scale ultra-high voltage (UHV) power transmission line designed to deliver clean energy from Xizang Autonomous Region …

China

Solvay Doubles Production Capacity for High-Purity Hydrogen in China

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has inaugurated a major expansion at its Zhenjiang, China, facility, doubling annual production capacity of electronic grade hyd…