Three French soldiers died from toxic fumes during an operation targeting illegal gold miners in French Guyana, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
The Ministry said the soldiers were preparing to place explosive charges to destroy the underground …
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Germany, a poster child for responsible energy, is renouncing nuclear and coal. The problem is, say many power producers and grid operators, it may struggle to keep the lights on.
The country, the biggest electricity market in the European Union, is a…
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Sweden is turning its gaze towards Peru and other South American countries for lithium tie-ups amid a global race to lock in supply of the "white gold" metal that is key for the batteries that power electric vehicles.
A senior trade official f…
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Zambia’s Minister of Mines Richard Musukwa said on Wednesday nine companies would submit bids for Konkola Copper Mines, which is at the centre of an ownership dispute with Mumbai-listed Vedanta, within weeks. "The bidding process will start once al…
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Swedish engineering group Sandvik reported quarterly operating earnings below market expectations on Wednesday and said it would cut around 2 000 jobs to buttress profitability in the face of early signs of slowing market demand.
Sandvik said it had s…
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A Congolese army officer arrived in the village of Kafwaya in June and warned residents not to trespass on a major Chinese copper and cobalt mine next door. As night fell about a week later, the soldiers moved in. "They didn’t say anything to anyon…
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In March 2018, the Chilean government unveiled big news: Corporate investors, including South Korean electronics giant Samsung, would build three factories in Chile to produce battery parts for electric vehicles.
Chile had lured the companies with an…
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Kazakh entrepreneur Kenes Rakishev said on Tuesday he had sold his stake in gold miner Petropavlovsk to Russian billionaire Roman Trotsenko and would invest the proceeds in a cobalt and nickel project he aims to list in Hong Kong.
Rakishev bought his …
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Czech utility CEZ will provide a two-million euro convertible loan to European Metals Holding (EMH), the companies said on Tuesday, giving CEZ a potential majority stake in the company developing a large lithium deposit in the country.
The loan will m…
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Belo Sun Mining said on Friday it had won a legal victory in its push to mine the country’s largest undeveloped gold deposit in the Amazon rainforest, which has drawn criticism from environmentalists and indigenous advocates.
But the public prosecutor…
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