Boliden AB will acquire all of Votorantim SA’s shares in Nexa Resources SA, taking a 64.68% controlling stake while Votorantim retains about 7%, consolidating ownership of Nexa’s zinc and polymetallic operations in Brazil and Peru. The deal gives Boliden strategic control over Nexa’s integrated mining–smelting chain, including large-scale assets such as the Cerro Lindo and Vazante mines and Três Marias smelter. Engineers should watch for potential changes in capital allocation, mine life extension strategies and brownfield expansion across Nexa’s Latin American portfolio.

IMARC will return its Innovation & Investment Alley in 2026, with Editorial Director Richard Roberts saying the event will again assemble one of the sector’s strongest line-ups of mining technology leaders and early‑stage innovators. More than 500 solution providers are expected in Melbourne, giving mine operators, contractors and investors concentrated access to digital mining platforms, automation vendors and equipment OEMs in a single venue. For engineers, the alley offers a dense snapshot of deployable technologies and pilot‑ready concepts that could feed directly into 2027–2030 project pipelines.

Brightstar Resources has reported a 225.7m intercept grading 3.11g/t gold from 284m depth in hole TMHRCD26006A at the Two Mile Hill–Shillington deposit, including a high-grade core of 19m at 24.3g/t, at its Sandstone project in Western Australia. The broad, unconstrained mineralisation from infill drilling materially strengthens the potential for a bulk underground mining scenario rather than a narrow-vein approach. Geotechnical and mine design teams will now be able to model a large, continuous orebody at depths beyond 280m, with implications for stope geometry, ground support and ventilation planning.