Brazilian miner Vale said on Tuesday it would suspend travel by its employees to and from China indefinitely as a precaution amid an outbreak of a new coronavirus.
Vale, the world’s largest iron-ore miner, said its employees in China will work remotel…
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Canada has the power to delay a decision on whether to approve a new Teck Resources oil sands project, a key Cabinet Minister said on Tuesday, a sign Ottawa could push back what will be a contentious decision.
Ottawa must decide by end-February if Tec…
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Freeport-McMoran, the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer, would consider acquisitions, mergers or other deals once three ongoing expansion projects finish by 2022, CEO Richard Adkerson said in an interview on Tuesday.
Demand for copper is…
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Russian company A-Property said on Tuesday it had formally requested permission from the country’s anti-monopoly regulator to buy a 100% stake in the Elga coal project owned by miner Mechel and lender Gazprombank.
The Elga mine, located in a remote re…
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Barrick Gold will start to ship gold worth up to $280-million from Tanzania, CEO Mark Bristow said on Monday, after the government lifted an export ban following the resolution of a three-year tax dispute.
The world’s second-largest gold miner signed …
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Exactly one year ago a tailings dam in the Brazilian town of Brumadinho collapsed, killing more than 250 people in one of the world’s worst mining disasters.
For survivors and relatives of the victims still searching for answers and justice, time has …
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Brazilian miner Vale has raised the emergency level at the Sul Inferior dam at its Gongo Soco mine in Barão de Cocais, in the southern state of Minas Gerais, after heavy rainfall eroded the structure’s reservoir.
"As a result of unusually heavy ra…
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Chile State miner Codelco filed with regulators on Friday a plan to begin exploration for lithium in its Maricunga salt flat holdings, a key step in advancing development of the country’s second richest deposit of the metal needed for batteries.
The p…
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Greece plans to liquidate Larco, one of Europe’s biggest nickel producers which is struggling under heavy debt, and then look for an investor for some of the company’s assets, its energy minister said on Friday.
The European Commission said in Novembe…
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Tanzania said on Friday it was due to sign an agreement with Canadian miner Barrick Gold, which could end a long-running and costly tax dispute.
"President Magufuli will witness the signing of an agreement between the government of Tanzania and t…
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