Geoscience BC has set up to start a project aimed at analyzing the possibility of extracting rare earth elements from British Columbia’s coal deposits and coal tailings facilities.
News ID: 5373 Publish Date : 2019/07/22
Mineral Resources’ BB/Stable rating is unlikely to be affected by delays in the commissioning of the new features of its Wodgina lithium operation.
News ID: 5371 Publish Date : 2019/07/22
Mongolian legislators will vote next month whether to rewrite a 2015 investment agreement with mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO) for the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, located in the Gobi Desert.
News ID: 5343 Publish Date : 2019/07/20
Indonesia is reportedly planning to spend billions of dollars in building aluminium and nickel smelters and reshaping its mining industry, in a bid to cut decades-long dependence on costly imports to meet domestic demand. Report says the Southeast Asian country is seeking to make building smelters mandatory for the miners.
News ID: 5304 Publish Date : 2019/07/19
Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 207,788 tons of ores during the first three Iranian months (March 21-June 21), which indicates a 46% fall in production compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization’s latest report shows.
News ID: 5270 Publish Date : 2019/07/17
West Africa-focused Avesoro Resources (TSX, LON: ASO) continues to transition from mining operator to contractor after concluding an agreement for Youga open pit gold mine in Burkina Faso, which could ease project funding pressure on the company.
News ID: 5227 Publish Date : 2019/07/16
In the first quarter of 2019, the global gold market continued to recover from the two-year lowest average price point of $1,213/ozt recorded in Q3 2018, rebounding to $1,304/ozt in Q1 2019, the second consecutive quarter of growth.
News ID: 5226 Publish Date : 2019/07/16
According to a recent report, Ghana Bauxite Company Limited workers at Awaso are set to resume work following a successful renegotiation with the nine-member committee. The committee was set up to ensure the re-engagement of the workers.
News ID: 5220 Publish Date : 2019/07/16
Perth-based graphite developer Bass Metals expects to increase its graphite sales by around 30pc in the September quarter, after they rose by 94pc in the June quarter.
News ID: 5199 Publish Date : 2019/07/15
Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, became on Friday the first British miner to launch a crowdfunding campaign to finance its hunt for the commodity in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England.
News ID: 5148 Publish Date : 2019/07/13
NMDC iron ore production for the quarter witnessed at 8.46 MnT, up by 23% Y-o-Y, SteelMint learned from sources. However production is down by 20% as against 10.6 MnT in Q4 FY19.
News ID: 5124 Publish Date : 2019/07/11
The following is an edited excerpt of Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC; US-OTC: LUCRF) president and CEO Eira Thomas interviewed by Dean MacPherson, head of business development for global mining at TMX Group, at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., on May 22, 2019.
News ID: 5091 Publish Date : 2019/07/09
Moody’s forecast for the global base metals industry is stable, while it predicts performance to weaken over the next year and a half, Mining Weekly reported Monday.
News ID: 5003 Publish Date : 2019/07/02
As the mining sector strives to secure safety improvements, productivity gains and other benefits offered by a fully autonomous mine, a new report, Accessing the Fast and Furious Pace of Autonomy to Transform Mining by Clareo and Twin argues the closed and proprietary systems of the major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are a barrier.
News ID: 4881 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
Shares in Ecuador-focused SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) jumped on Friday, after it announced that the country’s Constitutional Court had rejected calls for a referendum on mining in Imbabura, the province in which the company’s flagship Cascabel copper-gold project is located.
News ID: 4880 Publish Date : 2019/06/23
Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 129,172 tons of ores during the first two Iranian months (March 21-May 21), which indicate a 50% fall in production compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization’s latest report shows.
News ID: 4845 Publish Date : 2019/06/19
The output of Iran's major aluminum producers totaled 41,367 tons during the first two months of the current Iranian year (March 21-May 21), which indicates a 32% decline compared with last year's corresponding period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization reported.
News ID: 4844 Publish Date : 2019/06/19
Canada’s DeepGreen Metals, a start-up planning to extract cobalt and other battery metals from small rocks covering the seafloor, has secured the bulk of the $150 million it needs to carry out its first feasibility studies.
News ID: 4796 Publish Date : 2019/06/10
The Venezuelan Ministers of Mining Ecological Development, Víctor Cano, and Indigenous Peoples Aloha Núñez met with 15 captains from the Pemón tribe and, according to state media, reiterated that it is illegal to carry out mining activities in National Parks.
News ID: 4758 Publish Date : 2019/06/04
Canadian resource companies are choosing to invest abroad at record levels, amid waning global interest in the nation’s energy and mining assets.
News ID: 4690 Publish Date : 2019/05/31