Chilean copper miner Antofagasta said on Tuesday it would ask regulators for more time to answer questions about an environmental impact study for its Zaldivar mine, which draws water from Chile’s lithium-rich Atacama salt flat.
Chilean regulators la…
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India’s gold demand could fall 10% in 2019 from a year ago to the lowest level in three years as record high local prices dent retail purchases during a key festive season, the head of an industry body told Reuters.
Lower purchases by India, the world…
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Indonesian coal miners said upcoming regulatory changes are putting added pressure on their businesses amid depressed prices and rising competition from other energy sources.
The Indonesian government is in the process of amending coal mining rules to…
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Omnia Holdings, a South African chemicals and fertiliser maker, reported a full-year loss on Tuesday as a volatile currency, droughts, changes in the mining industry and difficult global trading conditions dented its business. The company, which also p…
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A unit of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group (CNMC) said on Monday it had signed a non-binding memorandum with Singapore-listed ISR Capital that could see the Chinese firm work as a contractor on a rare earths project in Madagascar with rights to purc…
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A federal court in Lagos on Monday adjourned until 22 July a case brought by local oil firm Oando to halt management changes the country’s securities and exchange commission is trying to enforce. The SEC’s action followed an investigation in which it a…
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outh Korea’s Posco has pulled out of a project to build battery parts in Chile, the Asian steelmaker said, little more than a year after winning guaranteed access to cheap lithium from top producer Albemarle.
POSCO, together with partner Samsung SDI, …
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Labour unions at Chile’s Chuquicamata copper mine voted on Saturday to reject the latest contract offer of government-controlled mining company Codelco, and to continue the week-long strike at the sprawling production site.
The unions went on strike e…
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Toyota Tsusho, one of the world’s biggest lithium producers, said on Friday it would take at least two more years to properly gauge the global electric vehicle (EV) market’s direction before deciding whether to further expand supply.
Over the next two…
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US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered officials on Thursday to develop a plan for US-Canada collaboration on "critical minerals", the White House said in a statement after a meeting of the two leaders.
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