Move comes after a spill at a molybdenum miner in March contaminated water supplies for the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
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(Kitco News) – Despite gold’s lackluster performance in March, prices will resume an upwards trajectory, in line with expectations for a safe-haven asset during a recession. However, the road to higher prices will not be a straight one, this according …
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Seven cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed at Implats’ mechanised platinum group metals (PGMs) mine in Ontario, Canada, but no employee or dependant has yet been diagnosed at Implats’ labour-intensive South African and Zimbabwean operations. The Canad…
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Thor Explorations (TSXV: THX) is moving forward with its Segilola project in Nigeria and has secured all the funding needed for the US$98 million project….
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(Kitco News) – NASA is planning to make science fiction a reality this year as it attempts to make its own version of The Martian’s oxygenator that could make oxygen on Mars using a golden box called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment).
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Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world’s second-largest producer of the precious metal, expects first-quarter gold output to fall by 8.5% as it has…
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Gold has rarely been a hotter trade, but the world’s two most important markets remain out of sync. In New York, the price of gold topped $1 750 for the first time in seven years on April 9. In London, it still hasn’t caught up.
The dislocation first …
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Aim-listed Goldplat will restart its South Africans operations on a reduced basis by April 20. Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe on April 16 announced that South African mining operations will be allowed to resume at a 50% operating …
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Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) signalled on Friday a recovery in China’s economy as it reported improved shipments of iron ore to the country,…
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Tianqi Lithium, one of the world’s top lithium producers, said on Friday it was exploring selling equity and assets, as well as bringing in strategic investors to address liquidity problems but that no agreements had yet been signed.
The Chinese comp…
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