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.

Metso has secured multiple process technology packages for the New Simberi Gold Project Expansion in Papua New Guinea, supplying grinding, flotation, thickening and filtration equipment. The project is owned by Simberi Gold Company Limited, a 50:50 joint venture between Lingbao Gold Group and St Barbara Limited, with engineering delivery led by Pitch Black Group. The deal signals further standardisation of Metso’s integrated comminution–flotation–tailings dewatering flowsheets on brownfield gold expansions in the Asia–Pacific region.