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Hydrogen demand powers record sales for Thyssenkrupp Nucera
Thyssenkrupp Nucera on Tuesday posted record quarterly sales, citing rising demand for its electrolyser technology as the hydrogen firm remained upbeat about the sector's prospects despite...
Chile copper miner Codelco logs December production setback
Chile's top copper miners closed out 2023 unevenly, with state-run copper miner Codelco logging a setback in December, according to figures released on Monday by the Chilean Copper Commission...
Empty Rio Tinto iron ore train derails in Western Australia
A self-driving train derailed at Rio Tinto's iron-ore operations in Western Australia, the world's biggest iron-ore miner said on Tuesday. A Rio Tinto spokesperson said the derailment involving an...
Alberta’s Premier Smith sees US LNG export pause as opportunity
President Joe Biden’s decision to pause approval of new liquefied natural gas export licences is an opportunity for Canada as the country prepares to start exporting the fuel, Alberta’s Premier...
Canada Nickel plans to raise $1bn for nickel-processing plant
as an alternative supplier of the metal used in car and electric battery vehicles. The processing plant in Ontario is expected to begin production in 2027 and process 80 000 tonnes of nickel...
Vale and Hydnum Steel to study building briquette plant in Spain
Brazilian miner Vale and newcomer Hydnum Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding to study building an iron-ore briquette plant at Hydnum Steel's first factory in Spain, which will be...
Portuguese prosecutors seek to annul environment permit for Savannah lithium mine
Portuguese prosecutors have asked a judge to annul an environment permit for a lithium mining project being developed by London-based Savannah Resources, alleging various legal infringements, a...
Botswana sets aside $65m to buy 24% stake in gem trader HB Antwerp
Botswana has set aside 890-million pula ($65-million) to buy shares in Belgian diamond trader HB Antwerp, national budget documents show, advancing a deal that President Mokgweetsi Masisi said in...
Vedanta weighs sale of minority stake in Zambian copper assets
Vedanta Base Metals CEO Chris Griffith said on Wednesday the company is talking to a range of financing partners to raise money for a restart of its Konkola Copper Mines unit in Zambia, including...
China's CMOC eyes further growth in Congo and beyond after taking cobalt crown
Chinese mining firm CMOC Group could buy more assets in copper and cobalt-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, and sees further potential for growth in South America and Indonesia, an executive told...
Aboriginal group to inspect rock shelters for potential Rio Tinto damage
An Aboriginal group from Western Australia's iron ore producing region will inspect an important cultural site in the coming days after it received a notice from Rio Tinto of possible damage, the...
Woodside, Santos scrap talks on A$80bn merger
Australia's Woodside Energy and Santos said on Wednesday they had ended talks to create a possible A$80-billionglobal oil and gas giant, and Santos flagged it would look for other ways to bolster...
Anglo American considers deeper cost cuts in face of worst downturn in years
Anglo American may consider deeper cost-cutting measures unless market conditions improve after a fall in prices and a downturn in the platinum group metals (PGMs) sector that is the worst in 35...
Congo's Gecamines and Entreprise Generale du Cobalt sign mining deal
Congo's State mining company Gecamines and its subsidiary Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) have signed an agreement granting EGC exclusive mining rights to five mining areas, the firms said on...
Zambia set to negotiate bigger stakes in new mining projects
Zambia is keen to negotiate larger holdings in new mining projects in order to raise its revenue and boost spending by investors on social projects, mines minister Paul Kabuswe said. The push by...
Bolivia to ink $350m deal in Chinese financing for first zinc refinery
Bolivia's government will sign a deal with China on Tuesday for $350-million in financing to build the South American country's first zinc refining plant, Bolivia's Mining Ministry said. The...
Codelco's 2023 production declines, but recovery seen this year
Production at mines owned by Chile's cash-strapped copper miner Codelco fell to 1.325 million metric tons in 2023, the company's chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday, promising a slight recovery...
Canada govt to support First Quantum after mine closure order, Minister says
The Canadian government will do its best to support First Quantum Mineral, the Trade Minister said on Tuesday without elaborating, as the Canadian miner deals with the fallout from the closure of...
US DFC boosts Congo funding, bids to de-risk world's top cobalt supplier
The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) said it was scaling up financing and guarantees for mining projects in Democratic Republic of Congo, to help de-risk and unlock private...
Billionaire-backed KoBold says open to partners as it plans $2bn Zambian copper mine
KoBold Metals, a California-based metals exploration company backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, said it may consider partnerships as it plans to fast-track development of a new...
Fire damage, sanctions delay start of new Russia zinc mine
The start of zinc concentrate production at Russia's new Ozernoye mine will be delayed until at least the third quarter of 2024 and a ramp-up to full capacity until 2025, the mine operator said on...
Rio Tinto unit faces criminal case in Canada over injured worker
A Canadian unit of global mining company Rio Tinto is facing a criminal case after an employee was seriously injured at an Arctic diamond mine, according to an announcement by local authorities....
India sees annual coal output up 10.9% in 2024/25
India expects domestic coal output to increase by 10.9% to 1.13-billion metric tons in the fiscal year ending March 2025, a senior government official said, driven mainly by higher production from...
Indonesia's January tin exports slump 99% on delayed work approvals
Indonesia exported 0.4 metric tons of refined tin in January, down 99% from the same month last year, Trade Ministry data showed on Monday, as miners faced delays in work plan approvals. On a...
Australian gold miner Red 5 to acquire 100% of Silver Lake Resources
Australian gold miner Red 5 will takeover rival Silver Lake Resources to build a mid tier gold company valued at $1.5-billion, the two companies said in a joint statement on Monday. The merged...
Rare earths prices seen rebounding in second half of 2024 - analysts
Rare earth prices have likely bottomed out and are poised to rise later this year on demand from electric vehicles (EVs) and wind powerand as dominant producer China is expected to pull back on...
Russia's Rusal loses suit against Rio Tinto over alumina refinery, can appeal
Russian aluminium producer Rusal has lost a lawsuit against global miner Rio Tinto that sought to win back access to its 20% share of the alumina produced at a jointly owned refiner in Queensland,...
Western miners lag as oil powers enter race for Africa's critical metals
Risk aversion is likely to leave major Western miners lagging in a race to tap Africa's reserves of critical raw materials that has gathered pace now Middle Eastern oil powers have begun to emulate...
Uranium stocks extend surge after Kazakh miner cuts output
Uranium miners extended a rally that’s made them the best-performing Australian stocks this year after the world’s biggest producer of the metal used to produce nuclear fuel cut its output target....
South32 sues IGO over Tropicana gold mine royalty claim
Australian diversified miner South32 has sued battery metal producer IGO for royalty payments worth A$122.1-million ($80.17-million) related to the Tropicana gold mine operations, the companies...
Swiss ban Russian diamond imports, joining latest EU sanctions
Switzerland will ban the import of Russian diamonds in line with the latest round of European Union sanctions designed to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the government said on...
US slashes estimates on Vietnam rare earths mining output
The United States geological agency has greatly revised down earlier estimates for Vietnam's rare earths output in 2022 and expects a further drop in mining production last year, according to its...
EU trade chief to press on with US battery minerals talks despite differences
The US and European Union failed on Tuesday to reach a trade deal for critical battery minerals but are vowing to press ahead with talks to create a transtlantic marketplace for minerals and other...
Nigeria to offer investors 75% stake in proposed solid minerals firm
Nigeria plans to offer investors at least a 75% stake in a proposed solid minerals corporation, a minister said on Tuesday, as lawmakers draft legislation to create the new state-backed firm to...
China Baowu raises $1.4bn via bond, mostly for Simandou iron-ore project
The world's largest steelmaker China Baowu Steel Group has raised ten-billion yuan ($1.4-billion) from a bond issue, in part for the giant Simandou iron-ore project in Guinea, it said on Monday....
Brazil state prosecutor urges Vale, BHP to settle over dam disaster
Miners Vale, BHP and their joint venture, Samarco, should strike a deal to compensate for a deadly dam disaster in 2015 or risk paying a lot more in court, the Minas Gerais state prosecutor general...
First Quantum to sell 120 000 t of copper in Panama mine
Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals said on Monday it intends to sell the 120 000 t of copper concentrate stored near the Punta Rincon port. First Quantum's Panama unit said in a statement that...
Vale's 2023 iron-ore output tops guidance, but sales fall
Vale's iron-ore production grew 4.3% in 2023, topping the Brazilian miner's estimate for the year, while shipments of the commodity fell slightly, the company said on Monday. The firm produced...
World's biggest jeweller Pandora stops using mined silver and gold
Pandora, the world's largest jeweller by amount of products sold, has stopped using mined silver and gold and now only manufactures with recycled precious metals, which require less energy to...
Nornickel forecasts 2024 nickel output drop after 5% fall in 2023
Russian metals producer Nornickel on Monday said it expected another drop in nickel output in 2024, following on from a 5% fall last year, as geopolitical risks continue to affect the company's...
Australia's Resources Minister seeks investment from South Korea, Japan
Australia's Resources Minister has begun a week long trip to South Korea and Japan to discuss gas exports and critical minerals opportunities, as its government on Monday released a "prospectus"...
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