One of the world’s largest copper producers, Chilean miner Antofagasta, and workers at its Zaldivar mine decided to extend government-mediated talks for a new union contract and avoid a strike, a union source said on Wednesday night.
The workers at th…
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Anglo-Australian miner BHP has dismissed as pointless and wasteful a £5-billion English lawsuit by 200 000 Brazilian people and groups over the 2015 collapse of a dam that led to Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.
Kicking off an eight-day hearing …
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Canadian gold miner Iamgold said on Tuesday it is restarting operations at its Rosebel gold mine in Suriname that it shut in June after union leaders issued a stop work order in response to employees testing positive for coronavirus.
Iamgold in June s…
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Pensana Rare Earths is in early stage talks with lenders including Barclays, South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) and funds including Fidelity to secure more funding for its Angola project.
Chairman Paul Atherley said the miner planned to raise bet…
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The US Army Corps of Engineers is poised to give its blessing later this week to an Alaska copper and gold mining project the Obama administration tried to block because of concerns it could harm the state’s salmon industry.
A final environmental impa…
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Brazilian miner Vale said on Monday that its second-quarter iron ore production totalled 67.6-million tonnes, up 5.5% from a year earlier and 13.4% higher than the first quarter, despite the impact of the novel coronavirus.
Vale said it was keeping it…
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Lithium Australia said on Monday it would refocus operations on "revenue-generating" battery recycling and sales, cutting costs and jobs as its seeks to weather a slump in raw materials prices exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
In a stoc…
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Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel on Friday said it would double its spending this year on measures to protect against the coronavirus outbreak to 20-billion roubles ($278.5-million).
The company said the measures would include anti-virus security a…
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Brazilian mining company Vale said it has yet to make any decisions on resuming dividend payments, according to a filing on Thursday.
Earlier this month, CFO Luciano Siani had told investors the company was ready to pay dividends again, but did not sp…
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Glencore’s Zambia subsidiary Mopani Copper Mines on Thursday said the country’s mines ministry rejected its proposal to suspend operations because of low copper prices and disruptions caused by the coronavirus crisis. Mopani said it would appeal agains…
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