A coalition of billionaires led by Bill Gates has thrown its financial weight behind a startup hoping to build a "Google Maps for the earth’s crust" to hunt for new sources of cobalt.
The startup, Kobold Metals, is using data-crunching algorit…
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ASX-listed Heron Resources on Monday announced that wet commissioning had started at the process plant of its Woodlawn base metals project, in New South Wales.
The only remaining step in commissioning the project was to feed ore through the plant. Onc…
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TSX-listed Sherritt’s Fort Saskatchewan metals refinery has reached a production milestone of producing three-billion pounds of nickel since operations started in 1954.
“As one of Canada’s oldest mining companies, we are proud of this important miles…
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Cobalt prices were surging so much last year that thieves were carrying out elaborate heists at warehouses in Europe’s busiest port. Now, prices are in free fall and mining companies are taking the financial hit.
The story of what happened is the clas…
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Copper junior Nzuri Copper has received a takeover offer from a subsidiary of Chinese metals trader Chengtun Mining Group, which is offering shareholders 37c a share in cash for their holding in Nzuri.
The directors of Nzuri have urged shareholders to…
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Freeport-McMoRan CEO Richard Adkerson said on Monday his company has been investing heavily to mitigate any danger from tailings dams and is "comfortable" with engineering designs in place at existing dams.
"Early on, we recognized this as…
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Base metals miner MMG on Monday warned that it will delay some shipments from its Las Bambas copper mine, in Peru, as outbound concentrate transport from the operation has been disrupted by community blockades.
The illegal blockade occurs on a stretc…
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Base metals miner MMG on Monday warned that it would delay some shipments from its Las Bambas copper mine, in Peru, owing to a community blockade.
The illegal blockade occurs on a stretch of public national roads, the ASX-listed company told sharehold…
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ASX- and JSE-listed Orion Minerals has identified numerous compelling targets for both volcanic massive sulphide- (VMS-) style zinc/copper mineralisation and nickel/copper sulphide mineralisation within a 15 km radius of the world-class Prieska deposit…
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ASX- and JSE-listed Orion Minerals has identified numerous compelling targets for both volcanic massive sulphide- (VMS-) style zinc/copper mineralisation and nickel/copper sulphide mineralisation within a 15 km radius of the world-class Prieska deposit…
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