The Japanese trading house is backing Sigma’s Grota do Cirilo hard rock lithium project, in the south-eastern province of Minas Gerais.
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Decision comes on the same day a Brazilian court froze an additional 1 billion reais ($255 million) in assets as possible compensation for damages related to a recent evacuation of the area around the company’s Vargem Grande dam in Minas Gerais state.
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Since early February, the Indigenous community of Nueva Fuerabamba has been blocking a national highway called Corredor Minero del Sur.
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Output increase would position the mine, which produced 465,000 tonnes of the red metal in 2018, among the world’s five largest copper operations.
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Currently there are no established global standards defining what a tailings dam is, how to build one and how to care for it after it is decommissioned.
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The Chilean state-owned miner has signed a deal with Uptake, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things software, to to monitor the health of mining equipment and ensure operations run efficiently.
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The world’s biggest iron ore producer said the injunction will impact production at its massive Brucutu mine, as it will now take longer than expected to bring it back on line.
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For 48 days now, the Indigenous community of Nueva Fuerabamba has blocked Chinese miner MMG Ltd from using a national highway.
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The dam is located in the municipality of Barão de Cocais, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
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The world’s largest miner has signed an earn-in and joint venture deal with Canada’s Luminex Resources over the Tarqui copper project.
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