Tags - COVID-19
Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) has secured up to $150 million from streaming company Franco Nevada (TSX, NYSE: FNV), which it will use to develop its Alpala copper-gold project.
News ID: 9480    Publish Date : 2020/05/12

Workers at the Toromocho copper mine in Peru, operated by Chinalco’s Aluminum, were given rapid tests for the novel coronavirus on Thursday after an employee at its processing facility tested positive, the company said.
News ID: 9467    Publish Date : 2020/05/09

Chile’s Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica ordered that the building that houses his office be disinfected using quaternary ammonium enhanced with copper nanoparticles. This, in an effort to avoid the spread of covid-19.
News ID: 9464    Publish Date : 2020/05/11

Covid-19 did not slow down the start-up of new the Q-REG® (Electrodes Regulation System) for the ladle furnace at Gerdau, in Divinopolis plant – MG – Brazil.
News ID: 9447    Publish Date : 2020/04/30

Great Panther (TSX:GPR; NYSE-A:GPL) has announced revenue for the first quarter of 2020 of $48.1 million, an increase of 188% over Q1 2019, reflecting primarily the acquisition of Tucano mine in Brazil.
News ID: 9436    Publish Date : 2020/05/09

The United States and the United Kingdom initiated formal negotiations on a free trade agreement on 5th May’20, assuring to work quickly to obtain a deal that could prevent the worst economic impacts of COVID-19 .
News ID: 9389    Publish Date : 2020/05/08

A deteriorating demand outlook has forced Japanese steel maker Nippon Steel to plan additional steel output cuts after July, by bringing forward the closure of two blast furnaces (BFs) originally planned for later this year.
News ID: 9385    Publish Date : 2020/05/08

Premiums for Brazilian mining firm Vale's 63pc Fe Brazilian Blend iron ore fines (BRBF) have risen to 11-month highs on the back of tight supply and growing risks that Brazil could become another Covid-19 hotspot.
News ID: 9382    Publish Date : 2020/05/08

Japanese trading firm Sumitomo's profit fell by almost 50pc in the 2019-20 fiscal year that ended 31 March, hit by the US-China trade dispute and a global economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9377    Publish Date : 2020/05/08

German industrial production plummeted in March and was expected to have kept falling in April because of Covid-19, the economy ministry said.
News ID: 9373    Publish Date : 2020/05/07

Vedanta Ltd. said the company’s initiative to ensure safety and prevention measures to fight against COVID-19 have reached over 7 lakh people in Odisha. Vedanta’s Odisha operations have joined forces with the state, district and communities in the fight against pandemic.
News ID: 9360    Publish Date : 2020/05/07

The European automotive sector has proposed a plan to help restart the crippled industry after Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased, following closures amid the pandemic and new car sales all but vanishing in April.
News ID: 9347    Publish Date : 2020/05/06

Poland's largest thermal coal producer Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) has stopped output from three of its mines, affecting about 20pc of its capacity, because of a worsening Covid-19 outbreak among its employees.
News ID: 9344    Publish Date : 2020/05/06

US copper scrap exports fell in March from the same time last year as the spread of Covid-19 in Asia cut into demand from the region.
News ID: 9341    Publish Date : 2020/05/06

Covid-19 has impacted the mining industry across the globe as governments enforce lockdowns and quarantines and companies halt operations because workers and contractors can’t get on-site due to restrictions.
News ID: 9322    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Rio Tinto came out with open hands to support local community efforts to fight COVID-19 and its social and economic impacts. The metals and mining giant is contributing $10 million in a multiple of grassroots projects across Canada and the United States.
News ID: 9308    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

LNG buyers in India have shrugged off the extension of a nationwide lockdown by a further two weeks from today, anticipating restrictions will be lifted gradually until the number of Covid-19 cases drop. But downstream demand for LNG may only start to increase after a few months.
News ID: 9307    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Italy's industrial gas demand was expected to rise today as the country emerges from a two-month Covid-19 lockdown.
News ID: 9302    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Argentina's state-controlled YPF has named oil industry veteran Sergio Affronti as new chief executive.
News ID: 9285    Publish Date : 2020/05/01

India's Punjab state has become the first to extend its Covid-19 lockdown, amid rising indications that nationwide measures may continue in some form beyond the scheduled end date of 3 May.
News ID: 9276    Publish Date : 2020/04/30