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BHP urges miners to create global body to oversee tailings dams

CEO Andrew Mackenzie said it was too early to say what impact the recent Vale tailings dam disaster will have on efforts to restart BHP and Vale’s jointly owned Samarco mine, shut since November 2015 after a dam collapse killed 19 people.

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Recommissioned Aussie mine dispatches first nickel concentrate shipment to China

Panoramic Resources’ first shipment from the Savannah mine contained 7,735 wmt of nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate valued in approximately $6.1 million.

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Thirty-year-old inactive Australia mine to host first of its kind clean energy storage facility

Terramin’s Angas zinc mine will host a 5 MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage facility.

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IBM steps up efforts to help miners improve health and safety records

The company is working with several wearable technology providers so companies can monitor biometric and environmental data to identify whether employees are experiencing dangers or risk, beyond a equipment failure.

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Kinross stock rallies after reporting record production at Paracatu and Bald Mountain

Operating cash flow reached $790 million in 2018, and cash and equivalents of $349 million, $1.9 billion in liquidity, and no debt maturities until 2021.

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