Intense rains at the start of this month in Chile, the world’s top copper miner, likely hurt productivity at State-owned miner Codelco’s Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic mines, the country’s Mining Minister said Tuesday.
Chile’s mining industry has los…
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BHP Group called for the creation of an independent international body to oversee the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which hold mining waste, after the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years.
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Chinese coal traders have stopped ordering Australian coal as clearing times through China’s customs have doubled to at least 40 days, according to major buyers in China and international coal merchants, resulting in a sharp fall in Australian prices.
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Around 200 residents were evacuated from an area near a tailings dam in Brazil operated by Vale late on Saturday, amid fears that it was structurally weak and could burst like a similar barrier failure last month that killed 300 people.
Vale said in a…
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Seeking assurances from Brazilian miner Vale by phone after a second deadly dam disaster in three years is not enough for Sasja Beslik. He plans to fly there himself to get answers. Beslik, head of sustainable finance at Swedish bank Nordea, blocked th…
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Brazilian miner Vale SA said a fire broke out on Friday in its distribution center in Malaysia, temporarily affecting shipments, according to a securities filing. Vale added that the fire caused "only material damages" and that operations are l…
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Zimbabwean authorities are expected to start retrieving trapped illegal gold miners on Friday but none are expected to have survived flooding in the shafts and the number of casualties could be about 50, State media reported. The accident in Battlefiel…
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Australian iron-ore miner Fortescue said on Friday that one of its driverless trucks, travelling at low speed, ran into another that was parked at its remote Western Australian operations in an incident earlier this week.
No-one was hurt or at risk of…
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Tin could see a surge of new demand from lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage of up to 60 000 t a year by 2030, the International Tin Association (ITA) said on Thursday. Investors have been excited about the prospects for incr…
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South Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Friday its full-year profit slumped 73%, dented by a decline in bullion production led by its South Deep operations. Headline earnings per share (HEPS) fell to $0.07 per share, for the full year ended Dec. 31, 201…
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