British Columbia has paused permitting for Seabridge Gold’s C$6.4 billion KSM twin tunnels, which would move ore from the Mitchell Valley pits to Treaty Valley processing facilities, until a court dispute with neighbouring Tudor Gold over Treaty Creek claims is resolved. The conflict centres on whether Seabridge’s 2012 conditional mineral reserve grants tunnel rights across Tudor’s Goldstorm and Perfectstorm areas, where Tudor is advancing a 10,000‑tonne‑per‑day underground PEA on a 24.9‑million‑oz indicated gold resource. KSM still holds a 2.3‑billion‑tonne reserve grading 0.64 g/t gold and 0.14% copper, with a planned 33‑year life and 1.03‑million‑oz/y gold output.

Mammoet has supported Ledcor in expanding the production and service headframes at BHP’s Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan, a greenfield mine targeting about 8.5 Mt/y of output from 2027 and expected to be among the world’s largest potash operations. The heavy-lift scope centred on installing large preassembled headframe modules and associated steelwork, reducing work at height and minimising crane reconfiguration on the constrained shaft collar area. For mine designers and contractors, the project shows how modular headframe construction and engineered lifting can compress schedules on deep-shaft developments in cold-climate greenfield sites.

Latin America’s latest mining rankings contrast countries where mining dominates exports with those where absolute export value rules, putting copper-heavy Chile and Peru alongside smaller, more mining-dependent economies such as Bolivia. The infographic orders states first by mining’s share of total exports and then by the dollar value of those exports, clarifying where copper, iron ore, lithium, rare earths and specialty minerals most shape trade. With 2026 framed as a critical year in a global contest over critical mineral supply chains, the series tracks how shifting geopolitical alliances may affect project risk and offtake security.