Milford Mining Company Utah has secured a conditional US$25 million, 16.5‑year USDA Rural Development loan guarantee, privately financed via Magnolia Bank, to expand its fully permitted copper mining and processing complex in Beaver County. The investment targets modernisation of processing equipment, removal of bottlenecks and capacity upgrades to double copper cathode and concentrate throughput by end‑2027 across the 62,000‑acre property, which also hosts tungsten, antimony and rare earth elements. MMCU expects to add about 100 jobs to its current 180‑strong workforce in rural Utah.

Cyprium Metals has restarted acid leaching at the Nifty copper complex in Western Australia for the first time since 2009, commissioning existing heaps with acid solution and targeting first copper cathode in the December 2026 quarter. Refurbishment of the site’s solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX–EW) plant is progressing in parallel, enabling a return to on-site cathode production rather than concentrate export. For engineers, the restart centres on rehabilitating legacy heap leach infrastructure and integrating it with an upgraded SX–EW circuit after a 17‑year leach hiatus.

Ramelius Resources has awarded Primero Group the Mt Magnet expansion project in Western Australia, adding 3Mtpa of processing capacity to support its target of 500,000oz of gold production per year by FY30. The EPC-style contract, announced by parent company NRW Holdings, centres on upgrading the existing Mt Magnet plant rather than building a greenfield facility, leveraging current infrastructure and power. For mine planners and process engineers, the uplift in nameplate throughput will drive revised pit schedules, ore blending strategies and potential debottlenecking of crushing and grinding circuits.