Zijin-controlled Fujian Longking is set to introduce its in-house battery electric mining trucks to Australian operations, expanding beyond their initial deployment in China that began in early 2026. The Longyan-built units, developed under Zijin Mining’s direct control, target large open-pit haulage fleets where high-duty-cycle trucks typically burn the most diesel and generate the most emissions. For mine planners and fleet engineers, the move signals growing competition to established OEM BEV haul trucks and may accelerate requirements for high-capacity charging infrastructure and grid upgrades on Australian sites.

Bannerman Energy and CNNC Overseas have approved full-scale construction of the Etango open-pit, heap-leach uranium mine in Namibia’s Erongo region, a US$353 million development designed to process 8 million tonnes of ore per year and produce about 3.5 million lb U₃O₈ annually from 2028. The project is fully funded without project debt, with CNNC investing US$320.4 million and securing offtake for 60% of lifetime production on market-based terms, while Bannerman markets the remaining 40%. Bulk earthworks are 99% complete, early works have already consumed US$64 million, and the first stage of the permanent water pipeline is about 90% finished, signalling limited geotechnical and infrastructure risk heading into main construction.

Moon River Moly’s updated PEA lifts the Davidson underground molybdenum-copper-tungsten project’s after-tax NPV to C$1.23 billion at an 8% discount rate and cuts payback to 1.5 years, driven by a switch from gravity separation to tungsten flotation and revised capex/opex. The 10,000 t/d, 20-year operation now targets average annual output of 13.27 million lb molybdenum, 1.5 million lb copper and 1.51 million lb WO₃, with all-in sustaining costs of $4.36/lb Mo net of by-products. Tungsten resources are upgraded to 80.8 million tonnes measured and indicated, and the mine plan includes battery-electric equipment, paste backfill and dry-stack tailings.