Industry: Metals & mining

A British Virgin Islands-registered mining company is bringing an arbitration against Ethiopia after its licence for a potash project was revoked. 

22 April 2025

The third edition of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration’s conference on international arbitration in the mining sector took place in Toronto last month, focusing on critical minerals, regulatory frameworks and the increasingly debated concept of the “social licence to operate”. Tom Villalón of Three Crowns in Washington DC reports.

17 April 2025

An Australian miner has sought to stay an arbitration it launched against Greenland and Denmark over a uranium mining ban while it challenges the measures in local courts. 

15 April 2025

Colombia is facing a second ICSID claim by a pair of US investors in a troubled oil refinery upgrade project – as an investor in another dispute with the state fails in a novel request for rectification of a dissenting opinion.

09 April 2025

An ICC tribunal has ordered a state-owned entity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to pay €39 million in penalties to an Australian mining company for breaching the orders of an emergency arbitrator in a dispute over a lithium project.

17 March 2025

Toronto-listed mining company Gold Reserve has filed a new investment treaty claim worth more than US$7 billion against Venezuela – while continuing efforts to collect on a billion-dollar award it won against the state in an earlier arbitration. 

06 March 2025

Toronto-listed mining company Gold Reserve says a Portuguese court has confirmed its decade-old investment treaty award against Venezuela now worth more than US$1.1 billion. 

25 February 2025

An Australian mining company’s liquidators have notified Poland of a potential treaty claim over two coal projects – after a previously threatened claim was allegedly derailed by a shareholder seeking a greater share of compensation.

24 January 2025

A London-listed mining company has obtained third-party funding for an ICSID claim against Morocco over the state’s refusal to grant environmental approval for a billion-dollar potash project.

23 January 2025

A French state-owned nuclear fuels company has filed a second claim against Niger over its uranium mining investments – having already filed a case against the state over a separate project.

22 January 2025