Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz rejects Swiss corruption charges against him in connection with winning mining contracts in Guinea and will appear in court to fight them, his Geneva lawyer told Reuters on Tuesday. Geneva prosecutors’ indictment of t…
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Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz and two others will be tried for suspected corruption for allegedly paying $10-million in bribes linked to allocation of mining licenses in Guinea to his BSR Group between 2005 and 2010, Geneva prosecutors said on Mon…
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Brazil’s mining regulator on Monday extended the deadlines by up to four years for closing many dangerous tailings dams like the one that collapsed in January at a Vale facility, killing more than 240 people.
Tailings are the muddy waste produced in m…
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Brazil’s mining regulator on Monday extended the deadlines by up to four years for closing many dangerous tailings dams like the one that collapsed in January at a Vale facility, killing more than 240 people.
Tailings are the muddy waste produced in m…
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that his administration would not cancel any current mining concessions, but added that no new mining concessions would be handed out either.
"Firstly, we’re going to keep the current c…
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Security forces in Burkina Faso have sealed off an Avesoro gold mine after a security guard killed an intruder and local people attacked the site in retaliation, security sources said on Friday.
The Youga gold mine, in the south of the country, was sh…
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Rio Tinto on Friday said it had moved a step closer to the development of a new copper project in Arizona, one of the few new major known deposits of the metal, with the potential to meet around a quarter of US demand.
Miners have been scouring the gl…
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Indonesia is discussing bringing forward a ban on mineral ore exports that was previously set to begin in 2022, but no decision has yet been made on such a move, its trade minister said on Friday.
Talk of a possible earlier start to the ban on ore exp…
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Albemarle said on Thursday it would delay construction plans for about 125,000 tons of additional lithium processing capacity as an oversupply of the white metal used to make electric vehicle batteries has pushed down prices.
The move from the world’s…
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Glencore’s Mopani Copper Mines in Zambia has closed two shafts at its Nkana mine, the company said on Thursday, a move that an opposition leader said had led to 1 400 job losses. A Mopani spokesman would not specify the number of workers affected, sayi…
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