Perpetua Resources has secured unanimous approval for a US Export-Import Bank $2.9 billion loan under the Make More in America Initiative to build the $1.3 billion Stibnite Gold project in Idaho, which hosts the only identified domestic antimony reserve. The financing, combined with existing cash, is expected to fully fund direct construction, supporting the US Army’s “ground-to-round” antimony trisulphide supply chain for ammunition and wider defence uses. The project, designated a FAST-41 Transparency Project, has completed extensive scientific and public review, while Perpetua’s market capitalisation sits at $3.34 billion.

Metso has secured orders worth over €10 million to supply two Premier horizontal grinding mills to Emerald Resources’ Dingo Range Gold Project in Western Australia and Memot Gold Project in Cambodia, booked in Metso’s Minerals segment Q2 2026. The package includes a 12 ft x 18 ft, 1.6 MW Premier ball mill for Dingo Range and a 15 ft x 22 ft, 3 MW Premier SAG mill for Memot, both with Metso’s gear-driven technology. The mills are designed for gold ore grinding circuits, with Metso providing engineering support and spare parts to optimise throughput and availability.

Copper’s record run to $6.667/lb ($14,700/t) now gives 75 operating copper mines nominal annual copper revenues above $1 billion based on 2025 mine-level production, up from 52 on the previous MINING.COM “unicorn” list. The analysis excludes byproduct credits, meaning several large Cu-Au or Cu-Mo operations would exceed $1 billion at effectively negative net copper cost once gold, molybdenum or cobalt are accounted for. With copper making up nearly 6% of initial capex for hyperscale data centres, the sector is positioned to capture a larger share of AI-driven infrastructure spending.