Mining News and Commentary

Barrick Gold mulls $1B expansion of Pueblo Viejo mine

President and CEO Mark Bristow said the company expected to complete a feasibility study for the project, which could extend the liefe of the mine into the 2030s, next year.

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Pan Global gets access to Torrubia copper target in Spain

The Canadian miner said that being able to enter Torrubia provides access to approximately 1.9 kilometres of strike with the widest and strongest soil copper geochemistry in the north part of the Torrubia trend.

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Barrick’s bid for Acacia an “appropriate” and “elegant” solution to Tanzania’s woes — CEO

The $285-million takeover bid, considered by some analysts and Acacia’s minority shareholders as a low, would see the world’s second largest gold miner buying the remaining 35% of the African miner it does not already own, at a discount.

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Danakali about to secure financing for potash project in Eritrea

Debt financing agreements worth $200 million could be finalized “any day” and are expected to catalyze equity financing to start the almost 30-month development of the 1.1 billion-tonne Colluli sulphate of potash project, the company said.

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Workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine to vote on strike action

Unionized workers rejected on Saturday the miner’s final contract negotiation offer and announced that they will vote on a proposal to go on strike.

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Russian scientists working on technology for extracting non-ferrous and noble metals

The goal is to study the physicochemical patterns and mechanisms of nitric acid dissection of hard-to-process ores.

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