Alkane Resources has sold the majority of its stake in Genesis Minerals (reports MiningNews).

BHP chief executive Mike Henry says the mining giant will benefit from a permanent shift to higher inflation because it will be positive for commodities and the company is a world beater on costs (reports The West Australian).

Expected demand for silver this year is “exceptionally promising” and forecast to grow by 8% to 1.112 billion ounces, according to The Silver Institute (reports MiningNews).

Develop Global has received further exploration results from the A$10 million drilling program at Sulphur Springs in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Red 5 has commenced commissioning of its new crusher at its flagship A$226 million King of the Hills gold operation, north of Leonora, Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Chinese authorities face a struggle bringing the iron ore price under control, as strong fundamentals and the growing potential for a supply shock conspire to keep Australia's top export trading near a five-month high (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Iron ore minnow Fenix Resources has elected to accelerate a potential expansion of its production by issuing shares to ensure an early earn-in of 100% of the iron ore rights across the Pharos project from the tenements’ owner, Scorpion Minerals (reports MiningNews).

A large-scale moving loop electro-magnetic (MLEM) survey by junior explorer Nimy Resources (ASX: NIM) has identified three conductor plates at the Mons nickel project in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Prices for the lithium-rich spodumene concentrate that Australian miners send to the world’s battery manufacturers surged by 45.5 per cent in January, and experts say the record-breaking 15-month rally in lithium prices has further to run (reports The Australian Financial Review).

The end of the boom is in sight for America’s fracking companies. Less than 3½ years after the shale revolution made the US the world’s largest oil producer, companies in the oil fields of Texas, New Mexico and North Dakota have tapped many of their best wells (reports The Wall Street Journal).

Newly-minted gold producer Kingston Resources (ASX: KSN) has commenced exploration at the historic Mineral Hill copper-gold project in New South Wales, targeting near-mine or brownfields targets within the existing mining lease.

Garimpeiro would be wasting everyone’s time if he tried to predict the next move in the US gold price (reports Barry FitzGerald on Stockhead).

Alicanto’s exploration has extended high-grade silver and zinc mineralisation at its Sala silver-lead-zinc project in Sweden over 3km of strike (reports Stockhead).

War in Ukraine could tighten several commodities markets as further sanctions on Russia crimp supply, providing a fresh tailwind to producers already enjoying buoyant conditions (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Canadian mining legend Ian Telfer says Barrick Gold is on the way to going out of business due to its failure to buy new assets because of what he says is a fixation on assets being able to generate returns at a US$1200 per ounce gold price (reports MiningNews).

Genesis Resources’ high-grade Puzzle North discovery has delivered further “exceptional” gold results (reports MiningNews).

Sandfire Resources has completed the US$1.86 billion acquisition of 100% of the MATSA mining complex in south-western Spain (writes MiningNews)

Prices for Australia’s lithium-rich spodumene concentrate have more than quadrupled over the past 18 months and Pilbara Minerals says they could surge by a further 50 per cent by the end of March.

We will see “rapid price movement” in the uranium market in 2022, says the head of the Australian uranium company best placed to enter production in the coming years (reports Stockhead).

Sandfire Resources is set for its biggest change since the shock discovery of ultra-high grade copper at the DeGrussa prospect in May 2009 (reports Stockhead).