Sierra Leone’s government has cancelled the mining licence of a subsidiary of Gerald Group, the mines minister told Reuters on Tuesday, amid a dispute over royalty payments. SL Mining suspended its iron ore mining operations in the West African country…
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The former head of a Siberian diamond mine owned by Alrosa where eight men were killed in a flood two years ago was found dead in a pre-trial detention centre on Tuesday, a day after he was arrested, Russian investigating authorities said.
A regional …
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Chile’s Antofagasta, one of the world’s largest copper producers, has requested government mediation to resolve a contractual dispute with supervisors at its flagship Los Pelambres mine, the supervisors’ union said on Monday.
The workers voted by a ma…
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Maintenance at the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is ongoing, a spokesman for operator Woodside Petroleum said on Monday.
The Australian company had initially scheduled maintenance for September 5 to October 1.
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Cerrejon, one of Colombia’s largest coal mines, will reduce its operations by up to 18% because of a fall in international prices and amid an ongoing court case, the company’s chief executive said on Monday.
Colombia, the world’s fourth-largest export…
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Brazil plans to restart domestic uranium mining in 2019 for the first time in five years, the Mines and Energy Minister told a newspaper in an interview published on Monday.
Operations would begin this year at a mine in the city of Caetite in the nor…
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Brazil plans to restart domestic uranium mining in 2019 for the first time in five years, the Mines and Energy Minister told a newspaper in an interview published on Monday.
Operations would begin this year at a mine in the city of Caetite in the nor…
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Twenty people were killed in an attack by suspected jihadists on a gold-mining site in northern Burkina Faso on Friday, two sources said. Gunmen came to the Dolmande site in Soum province and fired on people working there, killing 20, a security source…
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Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group confirmed on Monday that it has submitted a bid to develop two blocks in the giant Simandou iron ore deposit in Guinea.
Reuters reported on Friday that Fortescue and Guinea’s biggest bauxite exporter SMB-Winning were…
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Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group confirmed on Monday that it has submitted a bid to develop two blocks in the giant Simandou iron-ore deposit in Guinea.
Reuters reported on Friday that Fortescue and Guinea’s biggest bauxite exporter SMB-Winning were…
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