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Explorex Resources scraps plans to buy battery metals project in Finland

The Canadian miner won’t be buying the Hautalampi cobalt, nickel, copper project in eastern Finland at this time due to financing issues.

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Barrick’s Tongon mine hits production targets despite strikes, social unrest

After nine months of intermittent production caused by illegal strikes and social unrest, Tongon gold mine achieved its revised production target of 230,000 ounces for 2018, down from 288,680 the previous year.

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SQM just made it very difficult for Tianqi to access company secrets

The lithium miner, the world’s second largest producer of the white metal, has approved additional measures to protect corporate data considered confidential from China’a Tianqi, which recently bought almost a quarter of the Chilean company.

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Anglo American rides out iron ore hitches in strong 2018

Copper production reached a five-year high, more than offsetting output declines at Minas Rio in Brazil and Kumba in South Africa.

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Russia’s Alrosa, China’s Anjin to dig for diamonds in Zimbabwe

World’s top diamond producer by output Alrosa and China-owned Anjin are the two foreign companies chosen by Zimbabwe’s government to partner the state-diamond miner in exploring and digging up diamonds.

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World’s top maker of battery cells for EVs to open German plant in 2021

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) plans to produce 60 gigawatt hours by the fifth year of its German plant operations.

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Fresnillo’s 2018 silver output hit record high, to be lower this year

The miner, the world’s largest primary silver producer and Mexico’s No. 2 gold company, expects production of the grey metal to fall this year to between 58 and 61 million ounces.

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Strong last quarter leads Antofagasta to record copper output in 2018

The miner produced 220,000 tonnes of the red metal in the three months to December, up 16% from the previous quarter, boosted by higher throughput and improved copper grades.

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