Alcoa Corp’s Australian aluminium smelter was hit by a power cut on Friday after a transmission line tripped amid soaring temperatures in the country’s southeast, the Australian Energy Market Operator said.
AEMO, which manages electricity supply, said…
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The transportation of metal from MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine in Southern Peru has been halted since Monday, a police chief told Reuters on Thursday.
"As a safety measure, they have suspended the use of their vehicles," said Victor Andres Pati…
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The transportation of metal from MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine in Southern Peru has been halted since Monday, a police chief told Reuters on Thursday.
"As a safety measure, they have suspended the use of their vehicles," said Victor Andres Pati…
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South Africa’s economy will likely only grow by 0.8% in 2020, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, due to the weak performance of State firms and government bailouts which are widening an already large deficit. "Weaknesses in public en…
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The world’s biggest diamond producing company, Russia’s Alrosa, will restart production at Mir, a mine in the Yakutia region of the far east, shut since a deadly 2017 flood, the region’s governor Aysen Nikolaev said in an interview.
Yakutia, the world…
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A group of US institutional investors urged energy, timber and mining companies on Wednesday not to take advantage of Trump administration rollbacks of environmental regulations, such as moving operations into public lands that are being opened up.
Th…
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Precious metals miner Fresnillo said on Wednesday its annual gold and silver production fell, hurt by the phasing out of its the Noche Buena mine and lower-grade output from Saucito and San Julián projects in Mexico.
Gold output from the Noche Buena m…
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The sale of a small gold project in Australia has been delayed after a member of the Hong Kong-based buyer’s family showed symptoms of coronavirus, leading to the whole family being quarantined, the vendor said on Wednesday.
Australia’s Ausmex Mining …
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Cerrejon, one of Colombia’s largest coal miners, and its two unions have started negotiations ahead of the February expiration of their current contract, the parties said Tuesday. Cerrejon, which is equally owned by BHP Group, Anglo American, and Glenc…
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A decision on the future of the Elga coal project, one of the world’s largest coking coal deposits, is likely in the first quarter of 2020, the regional governor said in an interview.
Expansion of the mine, first developed by Russian steel and coal pr…
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