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Norway just raised the stakes over deep-sea mining
The Norwegian Parliament last week greenlit seabed mining exploration in the country’s territorial waters, a decision that contravenes the advice of government scientists and is set to intensify...
China’s drive for record coal spurs yet another deadly accident
The human toll of ever-increasing coal production in China is once again to the fore after thirteen were killed in a mine accident just days after the government said it will start a three-year...
Codelco caps worst year in quarter century with copper production drop
Codelco indicated copper output declined last quarter from a year earlier, as the world’s biggest producer of the red metal strives to recover from mining mishaps and project delays. Production...
Communities agree to end roadblocks at Chile lithium operations
Indigenous communities in northern Chile agreed to lift roadblocks that have restricted access to the country’s giant lithium operations since January 9. Members of the the regional indigenous...
Copper up from lowest in nearly a month on China stimulus hopes
Copper rose from its lowest close since mid-December, as inflation data from China bolstered calls for stronger stimulus measures from Beijing. China’s consumer prices posted their longest streak...
Gold edges higher as US-led airstrikes on Yemen aid haven demand
Gold edged higher as US-led airstrikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen boosted haven demand. The military action against the Iran-backed group followed a string of attacks on vessels in the Red...
Mining industry sees a way to navigate narco crisis in Ecuador
Ecuador’s budding mining industry sees a way through the violent mayhem sweeping the country, with operating mines and development projects expected to carry on as planned after stepping up...
China’s Zijin plans stake in Canadian miner, testing security rules
Chinese mining firm Zijin Mining Group will acquire a 15% stake in Solaris Resources for about C$130-million, the Canadian miner said on Thursday. Zijin Mining Group plans to take a 15% stake in...
Grupo Mexico weighs bid for First Quantum’s Spanish mine
Grupo Mexico is among several firms considering bids to buy a Spanish copper mine from First Quantum Minerals, as the Canadian metals producer seeks to bolster its balance sheet after its flagship...
Forrest to advance 14 GW of new clean energy in Australia
Billionaire Andrew Forrest pledged to develop 14 GW of new clean power projects in Australia by 2030, offering a boost to the nation’s efforts to accelerate investments in renewable energy....
Uranium miners surge on $500m US enrichment push
Shares in uranium miners jumped globally after the US said it’s soliciting bids to boost domestic production of nuclear fuel in an effort to bolster national energy security. The Energy Department...
Union members stage demonstration at First Quantum's Panama mine
Hundreds of Panamanian construction workers staged a demonstration at a shuttered copper mine that has become the subject of nationalistic sentiment in the Central American nation. Members of the...
Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals
A meltdown in some of the most-hyped energy-transition metals is wreaking havoc across the mining world, stalling projects, scuppering deals and triggering a scramble for cash that promises to...
India’s plans to double coal production, ignore climate threat
As climate diplomats at COP28 in Dubai debated an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels last December, India was facing another energy conundrum: It needed to build more power capacity,...
Gold One could dismiss more than 500 after mine sit-in
Gold One International could dismiss more than 500 workers at a South African mine after two incidents last year in which hundreds of employees stayed underground for days. The Sydney-based gold...
Goldman veteran Jeff Currie remains bullish on commodities this year
Jeff Currie, who spearheaded commodities research at Goldman Sachs Group for almost three decades, remains bullish on the sector for this year. Demand for raw materials is at record levels,...
Tianqi, LG, Eramet explore lithium options in Chile meetings
Some of the biggest players in the global battery supply chain held meetings with Chilean authorities late last year as the country with the biggest reserves of lithium gets ready to open up new...
Peruvian miner Buenaventura sees Antofagasta as ally in copper growth plans
After a few weeks digesting Antofagasta’s surprise entry into its shareholder register, Buenaventura sees the new investor as an ally in its copper growth plans rather than a rival eying control of...
Zimbabwe rescues 15 trapped miners alive – Mines Minister
An emergency operation managed to rescue all 15 small-scale Zimbabwean gold miners who had been trapped for four days after a shaft collapsed, according to Mines Minister Soda Zhemu. ”They are all...
Gold CEO scandal is latest black eye for mining as setbacks mount
Endeavour Mining’s shock firing of its chief executive has capped a miserable three months for the global mining industry — and an equally painful period for its shareholders. The world’s biggest...
Chinese miner takes Glencore's cobalt crown as output jumps 170%
China’s CMOC Group boosted its cobalt output by more than 170% last year, with surging production at a new mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo helping the company leapfrog Glencore as the...
China restores coal tariffs in threat to Russian exporters
China has restored import levies on coal from the beginning of the year, a move that could threaten Russian exporters dependent on the world’s largest market for the fuel. The tariffs were removed...
Gold Fields pushes back production at Key Chilean mine again
Gold Fields cut its production outlook for 2024 after announcing a new delay at a major project in Chile. The Johannesburg-listed company now expects to produce first gold at its Salares Norte...
Coal financing is still booming – led by China
The amount of bank financing going to mining coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel of them all, remains at surprisingly high levels. Most of it is coming from China. A new report from researchers at...
Australia wants to compete with China on critical minerals, minister King says
Australia wants to compete with China in producing and refining resources vital to the next phase of high-tech manufacturing around the world, according to Minister Madeleine King, backing the...
Resource-rich Congo goes to polls, with Tshisekedi the front runner
Polls opened in resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo as the nation’s citizens vote to choose their leaders for the fourth time since the end of decades of dictatorship and war. Incumbent...
Shipping insurance for red sea transit soars after mounting attacks
The cost of insuring vessels that will transit the Red Sea jumped again this week after mounting attacks in the region forced some ships to avoid the vital waterway. Cover has now surged to about...
Crumbling South African rail prompts Botswana to forge new route
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network. The 1 500 km...
Australia adviser urges improved reporting of methane emissions
Australia needs to improve the accuracy of fossil fuel producers’ reporting on greenhouse-gas emissions, especially on methane releases from opencut coal mines, a review of the nation’s climate...
Diamond sales slowly restart after efforts to halt price crash
The world’s two biggest diamond miners are selling stones again after the industry all but halted supplies in a desperate attempt to stop a collapse in prices. This year’s rout that was driven by...
Cleveland-Cliffs pivots to share buybacks after losing US Steel to Nippon
Cleveland-Cliffs announced an “aggressive” share-buyback program just months after making an ultimately unsuccessful takeover bid for rival United States Steel Corp. Cliffs shares jumped as much as...
Lithium ends dire year with cautious mood during contract season
Lithium buyers are sounding cautious on the key battery metal’s prospects for next year, even after a huge plunge in prices. Producers have recently been in talks with clients — mostly in Asia — to...
Burkina Faso names new mining Minister in government reshuffle
Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traore named Yacouba Zabre Gouba Mining and Energy Minister, replacing Jean-Pierre Boussim, according to a statement on state broadcaster RTB Sunday. The...
Coal’s peak is here, but demise of dirtiest fuel will be slow
Global efforts to boost clean energy and rein in carbon emissions have had a clear impact on coal: consumption of the dirtiest fossil fuel is expected to peak this year. Total consumption of coal...
US frackers are back to haunt Opec’s price strategy
Opec’s one-time nemesis — US shale — is rearing its head just months after the sector was all but written off as a threat to the cartel’s sway over worldwide oil markets. Drillers from the Permian...
Friedland says $15 000/t copper needed to spur new mines
Copper prices need to nearly double in order to prompt mining companies to build costly mines to meet rising demand for critical materials, according to billionaire Robert Friedland. The mining...
Bolivia takes a key step in long road to tapping vast lithium riches
Bolivia is cutting the ribbon on its first industrial-scale lithium plant, the dawn of what it hopes will be an export boom of the battery metal that could bring it back from the brink of economic...
Australia expands list of critical minerals key to transition
Australia expanded its list of critical minerals deemed crucial to its energy transition and national security needs as the country boosts the strategically and economically important sector. The...
Nedbank, Norfund to lend Pele Green R2.5bn for renewable power plants
Pele Green Energy has secured R2.5-billion in funding from lenders including Nedbank Group to help it build renewable power plants including one ordered by Anglo American Platinum. The other...
Billionaire Adani’s new copper foray to further tighten world's ore supply
The planned start of billionaire Gautam Adani’s copper plant in India next year will spur a sharp rise in imports of concentrate, further tightening the global supply of ore on which smelters...
Sasol says investors critical of its climate record have ‘flawed understanding’
Sasol has hit back at investors who said they would reject its climate-change report at an annual general meeting last month, before it was abandoned because of a protest. The petrochemicals...
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