Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals has placed its Cobre Panama operation into care-and-maintenance, after the Healthy Ministry of Panama (Minsa) this week ordered the temporary suspension of labour activities at the site.
The order follows the deat…
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US coal production will fall by 22% in 2020, as coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders drag down demand for electricity and coal mines have been idled for extended periods as a result of Covid-19.
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) says i…
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Canadian gold miner Yamana Gold on Monday reported that it was remobilising its Cerro Moro gold and silver mine in Argentina and said that it was also seeking clarity on whether its Canadian Malartic gold mine, in Quebec, could resume operations next w…
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Copper production has been suspended at the Pumpkin Hollow mine, as a result of stringent travel and workplace restrictions that the US state of Nevada imposed to combat the spread of Covid-19.
The suspension of production is expected to last for at l…
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Aim- and TSX-listed Atalaya Mining on Monday confirmed that operations had resumed at its Proyecto Riotinto copper mine, in Spain, after the mining department of Junta de Andalucía clarified that mining operations supplying other essential industries s…
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Aim- and TSX-listed Atalaya Mining on Monday confirmed that operations had resumed at its Proyecto Riotinto copper mine, in Spain, after the mining department of Junta de Andalucía clarified that mining operations supplying other essential industries s…
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Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals has suspended contracts with most companies building its Los Pelambres expansion project for up to 120 days, but has stressed that this does not imply that contracts will be terminated.
The London-listed company last…
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Canada-headquartered Ivanhoe Mines has unveiled “extraordinary” measures to continue construction of its large-scale Kamoa-Kakula copper project, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid the coronavirus crisis.
The miner has locked down Kamoa-K…
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Canada-headquartered Ivanhoe Mines has unveiled “extraordinary” measures to continue construction of its large-scale Kamoa-Kakula copper project, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid the coronavirus crisis.
The miner has locked down Kamoa-K…
Limits on inter-provincial travel have forced Canada-based miner Kirkland Lake to move to reduced operations at the Macassa mine and to suspend activities at the Holt Complex.
Border restrictions between Quebec and Ontario have been stepped up as effo…
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