Lucara going ahead with $514m expansion of Karowe mine
While the needed investment is expected to be paid back in under three years, Lucara has suspended dividends.
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Bolivia walks away from lithium project with German company
Germany’s ACISA, which employs just 20 people, was created solely to focus on building the now botched lithium mine in the Salar de Uyuni.
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Antofagasta cuts expected copper output further due to Chile’s protests
While its four locals mines are back in operations, the company has doubled it expected production loss for 2019 to about 10,000 tonnes.
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Lynas and Malaysia ink deal to sell rare earth waste, attract costumers
Agreement comes amid protests by environmentalists who say the miner’s rare earths plant fails to meet safety standards.
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Firestone resumes operations at Liqhobong diamond mine
Firestone has installed rented diesel generators to power the Lesotho mine’s processing plant.
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BHP earmarks $44 million for Samarco reopening four years after dam bust
Investment approval comes four years after a deadly dam collapse that killed 19 people and became the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history.
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Recycled lithium batteries market to hit $6 billion by 2030 — report
Circular Energy Storage predicts the world will generate around 1.2 million tonnes of battery waste per year by 2030.
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Petra Diamonds opens tailings to artisanal miners in South Africa
Company Petra believes there is space for artisanal small-scale miners to co-exist with formalized, large-scale operators.)
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About a tenth of the world’s tailing dams have had stability issues
This is one of the conclusions from a global inquiry launched after the collapse of a dam in Brazil that killed hundreds.
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Peru lets Southern Copper keep building $1.4bn Tia Maria copper mine
The miner, a unit of Grupo Mexico, has sought to build the mine for nearly a decade, but opposition from locals fearing pollution and loss of water supply has thwarted the effort.
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