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By Michael Allan McCrae Vale is the nickel king based on 2017 production totals. Vale produced 242 kilotonnes of nickel in 2017. Note, this is nickel just derived from mines. Total excludes nickel provided by external parties. Nickel, a key metal for lithium-ion batteries and part of the electrification drive, was on a tear for […]

By Cecilia Jamasmie World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) is rolling out the second phase of a $10 million rebranding campaign launched last year, which may see it become dropping “Billiton” from its name an attempt to emphasize its Australian roots. Documents released Tuesday to the Australian Securities Exchange, show the miner will

By Cecilia Jamasmie Australia’s Lithium Power International (ASX:LPI) is moving forward with its plans to mine for lithium in Chile as it has submitted the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for its Maricunga project to the country’s environmental authority (Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental or SEA). The company, which operates in the copper and lithium-rich South American

By Cecilia Jamasmie Shares in Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) climbed more than 6% on Monday after the South African miner reported a 37 percent increase in full-year earnings thanks to higher output at its mines. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) jumped to $195.4 million from $142 million in the previous year, Petra

By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) said it supports the recent diamond sector reforms announced by Angola’s government and that it will sell certain select large premium-value diamonds from its prolific Lulo mine through the country’s new marketing channels. In detail, the Australian miner and its partners Empresa Nacional de Diamantes and Rosas &

By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Australia’s Lake Resources NL (ASX: LKE) and America’s Lilac Solutions recently announced that they had established a partnership with the idea of developing the Kachi Lithium Brine Project in Argentina. Lake owns the project, which is located in the northwestern Catamarca province, some 100 kilometres south of FMC’s Hombre Muerto lithium

By Cecilia Jamasmie The Lower Chamber of Chile’s Parliament has begun studying a project that would set a 3% mining royalty for all companies operating in the country, which is the world’s top copper producer and the one with the largest known reserves of lithium. The proposed tax, to be applied on the nominal value

By Cecilia Jamasmie De Beers, the world’s top diamond producer by value, has unveiled a new device to detect whether that bling ion your piece of jewellery is or not a man-made stone, in an effort to bring greatest transparency to the synthetics market. The SYNTHdetect XL, and an advanced version of a screening device

By Michael Allan McCrae Glencore’s Mutanda Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo produced 23.9 kilotonnes of cobalt in 2017 making Mutanda the world’s biggest producer of the blue metal that is also owned by a publicly-traded company. Ranking was compiled using data from Mining Intelligence. Annual cobalt production is gathered from publicly-traded mining companies,

By Cecilia Jamasmie Japanese trading Mitsubishi and Sumitomo are said to be interested in becoming a partner of Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.A | TECK.B)(NYSE:TCK) at Canada’s largest diversified miner’s Quebrada Blanca copper mine in northern Chile. Teck, which last month received regulatory approval for a $4.8-billion extension of the mine, has been looking for a development