Sales by Russia’s Alrosa, the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds in carat terms, are lower than a year ago so far in January, its CEO was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Wednesday.
Alrosa competes with Anglo American’s De Beers, th…
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Canadian mining firm First Quantum Minerals says it has ended plans to layoff 2 500 workers in Zambia due to higher tax plans and will continue to dialogue with the government over the issue. "First Quantum will not now proceed with the planned lay…
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The union of supervisors at state miner Codelco’s Gabriela Mistral mine in northern Chile has rejected the company’s final offer for a new collective labor agreement, raising the specter of a strike in the coming days, the union president told Reuters …
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Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) will extend a one-day strike at Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum mine if the firm does not return to the negotiating table, its president said on Tuesday. Joseph Mathunjwa made the remarks outside S…
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More of the billions of tonnes of materials the world uses each year must be recycled and reused to keep climate change in check, researchers said on Tuesday. Only about a tenth of the nearly 93 billion tonnes of materials utilised annually – including…
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Fourteen miners were killed in an eastern Rwandan tin mine after a hill collapsed on them after heavy rains, an official said on Monday. "Because of recent rainfall in the area, part of the hill nearby collapsed and 14 miners who were getting ready…
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Swedish metal-cutting tools and mining gear maker Sandvik reported resilient fourth-quarter earnings on Monday as strong demand in North America outweighed a softening in Asia on the back of a weaker auto sector. Quarterly order intake at Sandvik, whic…
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Silver just completed its worst year in three. Investors are showing no signs of taking a shine to the metal in 2019, either.
The commodity has erased its 2019 gain, while gold, platinum and palladium hold onto theirs. Silver futures on Friday posted …
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A unit of Berkshire Hathaway denied a report on Sunday that it reached an agreement to allow extraction of lithium from its geothermal wells in California, a project that could offer US carmakers and battery producers a secure supply of the metal.
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Mali’s industrial production of gold rose 23% last year to 60.8 t, Mines Ministry spokesperson Boubacar Sissoko said on Friday. In March, the mines ministry said output would rise in 2018 primarily due to the start of production at B2Gold’s Fekola and …
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