Lynas Rare Earths has appointed chief operating officer Pol Le Roux as interim chief executive officer, effective when long‑serving CEO Amanda Lacaze retires later this month. Le Roux currently oversees Lynas’ processing operations in Malaysia and Western Australia, including plant performance, supply chain and major project delivery across its rare earths value chain. The leadership change comes as Lynas advances capacity expansions and process upgrades at its WA mining and concentration assets and downstream cracking and separation facilities in Kuantan.

Mining influencers on TikTok and other platforms are rapidly building audiences, with Colombian mining and metallurgy student “Paula Mineria” reaching 110,600 TikTok followers and 1.6 million likes through site-visit videos filmed at operations in Colombia, Japan, Chile, Panama, Canada and the US. Underground miner Cory Rockwell has amassed 117,100 followers and 5 million likes by posting detailed clips of scaling walls, refuge chambers and explosives rounds at sites including Barrick’s Turquoise Ridge and Coeur’s Kensington gold mine. Their content, often company-approved and safety-PPE compliant, is being used by operators and recruiters to counter negative perceptions and showcase modern, regulated mining work.

Silver X Mining has acquired Barrick’s Lily 19 concession, giving it 100% ownership of the early-stage Ccasahuasi gold project in Peru for US$30,000 plus a net smelter return royalty with partial buyback. Ccasahuasi, located 1 km from the producing Tangana mine and within the 204.7 sq. km Nueva Recuperada land package, hosts an inferred 42,303 oz gold resource defined by just under 1,000 m of drilling over a 13.5 sq. km gold system. Limited drilling to date includes three holes with >26 m intercepts above 0.7 g/t Au and a 40 m-thick mineralised body interpreted to extend toward Tangana.