Frontieras North America and Western Fuels have signed an MOU to build a mine-mouth FASForm coal fractionation facility at the Dry Fork open-pit mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, initially processing up to about 2.7 million tons/year of sub-bituminous coal and potentially 5.4 million tons/year at full build-out. The patented FASForm process disassembles coal in a continuous, closed-loop, zero-waste, reducing atmosphere to produce clean solid carbon (FASCarbon), ultra-low-sulphur diesel, naphtha and other products, with 30-year ground lease, feedstock, diesel offtake and logistics agreements envisaged. FASCarbon could be railed to Western Fuels Association member utilities or exported, positioning the Dry Fork facility within a 1,200 MW mine-mouth generation cluster as a hub for future FASGEN co-location at nearby coal-fired plants.

Faraday Copper’s latest 22,510-metre drilling phase at Copper Creek, Arizona, has expanded shallow oxide and sulphide mineralisation, with hole FCD-26-190 cutting 100.8 metres at 0.22% copper from surface at Copper Giant East and FCD-26-192 returning 19 metres at 0.55% copper from 42 metres near American Eagle. Near-surface mineralisation was reported in 14 of 23 new holes, supporting a staged development starting with oxide feed and copper cathode production ahead of larger sulphide open-pit and underground phases. Faraday is closing its acquisition of BHP’s former San Manuel mine, which processed ~800 million tonnes at 0.66% copper, and plans at least 23,000 metres of drilling there this autumn toward a combined Copper Creek–San Manuel resource by mid-2027.

IntelliSense.io has secured a major growth investment from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), with strategic capital from Mitsubishi Corporation and Hitachi Construction Machinery, to scale its industrial decision intelligence platform for mining and minerals processing. The AI-native system is already deployed on unit operations such as grinding, flotation and thickening, using real-time sensor data and digital twins to optimise throughput, energy use and reagent consumption. Backing from OEMs like HCM signals tighter integration of IntelliSense.io’s optimisation tools with autonomous haulage fleets and smart plant control systems across new geographies.