Brazilian miner Vale’s tailings dam in the town of Barao de Cocais in Minas Gerais has up to a 15% chance of breaking, the state’s environment secretary said on Monday.
The dam at Vale’s Gongo Soco mine is about 64 km from Brumadinho, where a tailings…
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Researchers want space-miners to focus on the Moon, Mars and iron-rich bodies tumbling through the asteroid belt and leave things such as Jupiter and Saturn alone.
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Increasing supply worries after Vale warns of another dam burst.
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Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA told prosecutors in the state of Minas Gerais that a dam is at risk of rupturing at its Gongo Soco mine, about 40 miles from where its Brumadinho dam collapsed, killing more than 230 people.
According to a document pub…
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Billionaire mining investor Robert Friedland is close to a deal to take over an iron-ore deposit in Guinea from owners including BHP Group, according to people familiar with the situation.
Friedland is in advanced talks with BHP, Newmont Goldcorp and …
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ASX-listed Venture Minerals is looking to restart iron-ore production at its Riley direct shipping ore (DSO) project, in Tasmania, by the fourth quarter of this year.
Venture on Thursday reported the launch of an updated mining study to allow for a de…
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Brazilian miner Valesaid on Tuesday it is considering doubling the output of its Carajas Serra Sul iron-ore mine in the northern part of the country after 2020, saying the move would allow it to cut the use of tailings dams.
One such dam, used to stor…
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JSE-listed Kumba Iron Ore expects to deliver a stronger financial performance, underpinned by higher average iron-ore export prices and a weaker rand:dollar exchange rate for the six months ending June 30. Headline earnings and basic earnings for the p…
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The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority has approved plans by mining major Rio Tinto to expand opencut mining at its West Angelas mine, in the Pilbara.
Rio, and its joint venture partners Mitsui and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal,…
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The share price of iron-ore miner Fortescue Metals jumped more than 7% on Tuesday after the company announced a fully franked dividend of 60c a share.
The new dividend brought the total amount of dividends for the 2019 financial year to date to 90c a …
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