Guinea and Liberia signed a deal on Friday to allow several mines in Guinea, including the giant Nimba iron-ore project, to export through Liberia, officials from the West African countries said.
The logistics of transporting tonnes of raw materials t…
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Chinese miner MMG is likely to have to halt production at its Las Bambas copper mine in Peru "within a week" due to protests that have blocked access to the site, a senior local executive told Reuters on Friday.
Alvaro Ossio, the mine’s vice …
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Chinese miner MMG is likely to have to halt production at its Las Bambas copper mine in Peru "within a week" due to protests that have blocked access to the site, a senior local executive told Reuters on Friday.
Alvaro Ossio, the mine’s vice …
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Rio Tinto is looking for copper and zinc-lead deposits in four Chinese regions, including Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, as part of an exploration venture with State-owned China Minmetals, a spokeswoman for the Anglo-Australian Miner said on Friday.
Th…
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An expert in chemical contamination has called test results from the Ramu nickel spill into Papua New Guinea’s Basamuk Bay in August "alarming," according to a local media report on Thursday.
A spill at Metallurgical Corp of China (MCC)’s nic…
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Australia’s New South Wales water authority has lodged a strong objection to a planned extension of the life of a coal mine operated by South 32 because of its predicted impact on water resources that support Sydney.
The Dendrobium metallurgical coal …
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London-listed Vast Resources will next week sign an agreement with Zimbabwe’s state diamond mining firm to prospect and mine diamonds in the east of the country, the mines minister and a company official said on Friday. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s g…
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Zambia owed major mining companies 2.8-billion kwacha ($215-million) in tax refunds as at June 30, 2019, Finance Minister Bwalya Ng’andu said on Thursday, the latest development in a long-running dispute with the miners. In December, the Zambian govern…
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Vedanta Resources said on Thursday it would shut its Skorpion zinc operations in Namibia from early November until the end of February 2020.
The company said in a statement the closure was due to technical problems which resulted in reduced ore produc…
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The US military has conducted an aerial survey of Greenland to assess the vast arctic island’s mineral potential as part of agreement between the two governments, a top US diplomat said on Wednesday.
The memorandum of understanding for cooperating on …
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