VANCOUVER – B2Gold issued a statement saying that even though it hasn’t shut down operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has put measures in place and introduced additional precautionary steps to manage and respond to the risks associated wi…
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NYSE-listed Freeport-McMoRan will, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting global economic uncertainties, suspend the quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 a share, as was previously planned for May 1, 2020. The payment of future dividends will d…
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Congo has imposed a two-day lockdown in Haut-Katanga, an area rich in copper and cobalt, after two people tested positive for the coronavirus, provincial governor Jacques Kyabula Katwe said. He said late on Sunday the boundaries of the southeastern pro…
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The Minerals Council South Africa says it will provide a daily update on its website if and when incidents of Covid-19 are confirmed at its members’ operations. This follows reports last week of a purported confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, whic…
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Ecuador said on Sunday that its largest gold and copper mines would reduce the number of workers and scale back operations to a minimum as the country registers a rapid growth of coronavirus infections. The Fruta del Norte gold mine, operated by Canadi…
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Norilsk Nickel said on Friday that Russian Platinum had withdrawn from talks about creating a joint venture for their Arctic palladium project due to a lack of approval from Rusal, one of Nornickel’s shareholders. Nornickel is the world’s largest prod…
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A senior member of Burkina Faso’s government tested positive for the coronavirus, just days after another lawmaker became the West African country’s first casualty of the pandemic. Minister of Mines and Quarries Oumarou Idani developed symptoms after r…
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet with business leaders today as the government mulls relief measures to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak on the economy. The country has escalated measures to curb the spread of the …
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ECUADOR – In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Aurania Resources has announced that management has decided to remove workers from its Lost Cities project located in Ecuador’s southeastern province of Morona-Santiago. In a press release, the Cana…
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As the world seemingly moves into lockdown to halt the transmission of the novel COVID-19 virus, the uncertainty and restrictions on movement are taking a toll on markets and commodities. After initially benefiting from uncertainty around the virus and…
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