MP Materials (NYSE:MP) stock surged 6% to $48.29 on Wednesday as traders weighed the company's critical minerals growth story. USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ:USAR) shares rose 3% to $14.44, while Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML) stock stayed essentially flat, up 0.1% to $7.
Shares in Harvest Minerals Ltd (AIM:HMI, OTC:HMIFF), the organic fertiliser producer, fell 9% on Wednesday to 0.25p after interim results showed net liabilities and a material uncertainty over its going concern status. The company reported a loss after tax of A$1.18 million for the six months to 30 June, down from A$1.98 million a year earlier, while revenue rose 18% to A$610,415.
Kodal Minerals PLC (AIM:KOD) moved into profit in the first half of 2026 as its Bougouni lithium operation completed its first full period of commercial production. The West African lithium producer reported a £3.50 million profit for the six months to June, reversing a £3.66 million loss a year earlier.
Tertiary Minerals PLC (AIM:TYM, OTC:TTIRF, FRA:TMU) has raised £1 million before expenses to push ahead with deeper drilling and further technical work at its Mushima North silver-copper project in Zambia, with trading in its AIM shares set to resume today. The explorer placed 1.67 billion new shares with institutional and high-net-worth investors at 0.06p apiece.
Apollo Minerals Limited (ASX:AON, FRA:4AP, OTC:APOMF) has marked its admission to the Euronext Growth Paris Exchange with an official bell-ringing ceremony in France, strengthening its presence in Europe as it advances the Couflens high-grade tungsten-gold project. The ceremony was attended by Australia's Ambassador to France, Lynette Wood, alongside representatives from French mining industry body A3M, providing Apollo with an opportunity to engage with stakeholders as it builds its profile in the French and wider European resources sector.
HudBay Minerals NYSE: HBM outlined expanded gold reserves at its Snow Lake operations in Manitoba, a forthcoming investment decision for its Copper World project and a longer-term plan to build a larger U.S. copper business, according to comments from Chief Executive Officer Peter Kukielski.
Ivanhoe Mines TSE: IVN outlined its copper, precious-metals and technology ambitions during a presentation that linked the company's mining projects to rising demand for critical minerals, electrification and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Northern Dynasty Minerals NYSEAMERICAN: NAK outlined its view of growing copper supply constraints and provided an update on its legal effort to advance the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska during a presentation at a Denver Gold Group conference.
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Silver Range Resources Ltd (TSX-V:SNG, OTC:SLRRF, FRA:8SR) earlier this week outlined agreements with Resilience Minerals covering its Sand Springs and Alamo copper-gold projects in the southwestern United States, with CEO Mike Power explaining how the transactions fit the company's prospect generator model. Power told Proactive that Resilience Minerals was acquiring an 80% interest, rather than earning into the projects through several stages.
Strategic Minerals PLC (AIM:SML) will spend the rest of 2026 and much of 2027 drilling and testing its Redmoor project in Cornwall, with the aim of upgrading its resource to a higher-confidence category. The company said it is fully funded for the next 12 months and substantially funded through a pre-feasibility study, the detailed engineering and economic assessment that precedes a final investment decision.
Solis Minerals Ltd (ASX:SLM, TSX-V:SLMN, OTCQB:SLMFF) (Solis Minerals Ltd (ASX:SLM, TSX-V:SLMN, OTCQB:SLMFF)) has kicked off diamond drilling at its 100%-owned Campo Grande Lithium Project in Brazil, targeting a prospective lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatite system within the Araçuaí Lithium Valley of Minas Gerais. The initial program comprises five diamond holes for about 1,000 metres and will test a prospective pegmatite corridor over roughly 500 metres.