Russian diamond producer Alrosa said its rough and polished diamond sales stood at $181.8-million in August, its second lowest monthly sales figure this year.
"The diamond market is still experiencing headwinds from both macroeconomic and industry…
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First Cobalt favours a quick restart of its idled cobalt refinery in Canada and will begin assessing the plant’s condition next week, CEO Trent Mell said on Monday.
The Toronto-based company has secured agreements under which commodity trader Glencore…
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Russia’s Alrosa is talking to several global jewellery retailers about jointly marketing the miner’s jewellery brand that uses fluorescent diamonds, as it strives to create a new niche for the natural stones.
Diamond miners, which have long excelled a…
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Colombia, the world’s fifth-largest exporter of coal, produced 18.9-million tonnes of the fuel in the second quarter, down 4.5% from the same period in 2018, the government said on Friday.
Coal production in the South American country was 19.8 million…
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The US nuclear energy industry has called for the Trump administration to revive domestic uranium mining and enrichment by unlocking funds through a Cold War-era program, in a letter sent to a Cabinet-level working group.
The August 18 letter from the…
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Nickel Mines said on Monday the company and its Chinese partner in the Hengjaya Nickel Industry (HNI) project in Indonesia have agreed to amend two contractual terms, including limiting the option for the miner to raise its stake in the project.
The m…
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Canadian miner Cameco said it will hold down output until uranium prices recover and it could cut production further, although nuclear reactor life extensions in France and newbuilds in China, the UAE and Britain bring some hope.
Since the 2011 Fukush…
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Norway’s Equinor and its partners in the Northern Lights underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project offshore Norway have signed preliminary agreements with seven potential industrial customers for the venture.
The agreements are a crucial step t…
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Tin prices jumped in Shanghai and London on Thursday after some of the world’s top refined tin producers said they would cut production this year following a recent slump in prices for the metal. In total, producers including the world’s top two – Chin…
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Alrosa said on Thursday its supervisory board will consider terminating the Russian diamond miner’s participation in the share capital of Alrosa-Nyurba on September 10 by way of voluntary liquidation of Alrosa-Nyurba.
The voluntary liquidation, in cas…
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