Twenty years after combatants snapped arrows to signal the end of hostilities in the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville, voters will on Saturday cast ballots in a long-awaited independence referendum.
The referendum terms were agreed as part of th…
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TSX-V-listed Hudson Resources will place its Greenland operations into temporary care-and-maintenance during the winter, citing technical production reasons.
The company, which owns the White Mountain anorthosite mine, explained this week that when …
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Australia-based ioneer on Thursday announced a fully underwritten institutional placement to professional and sophisticated investors to raise A$40-million, which would take the Rhyolite Ridge lithium/boron project, in the US, through to a final invest…
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Companies (Opec) may have no appetite to cut oil production deeper when it meets next month, but flaring political crises across the group are once again threatening supply. Unrest erupted in Iraq and Iran this m…
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Tunisia says it’s on track to restore once economically crucial phosphate output to levels approaching those before the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, as its beleaguered state-owned miner undergoes a shakeup. Output will probably be at least 4.1-million to…
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Miner Freeport-McMoRan and two large Chinese copper smelters on Thursday agreed a 23% cut in annual treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for 2020, pushing the industry benchmark to a nine-year low.
Freeport settled with Jiangxi Copper and Tongling …
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Canada’s Teck Resources has hired Barclays to sell all of its 80% stake in its Zafranal copper asset in Peru, as the diversified miner accelerates efforts to exit advanced projects and focus on its massive Chilean expansion, two banking sources told Re…
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The platinum sector is likely to end 2020 with a 670 000 oz surplus, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) estimates. The WPIC on Thursday published its Platinum Quarterly for the third quarter of 2019, which includes a revision to the full-year…
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The global iron-ore market is likely to have a shortfall following the dam spill and mine curtailments at top supplier Vale, according to Fortescue Metals Group founder Andrew Forrest, who cautioned that other producers face constraints in boosting out…
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A year after Lourenco Goncalves raged against analysts from Goldman Sachs Group, the Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. chief’s acrimony has reversed 180 degrees.
“I love you, you are the best commodity desk I have ever seen in my life,” he said at a conference or…
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