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Continued strong global demand for steelmaking coal, especially in China and India, may be behind two new coal mine proposals in Canada’s British Columbia province.
News ID: 5254   Publish Date : 2019/07/17

Tenova TAKRAF is pleased to announce the successful achievement of the 48-hour performance test for a major bauxite expansion project in Guinea. This important project milestone, for this complex greenfield/brownfield project, was achieved on 1 July 2019.
News ID: 5246   Publish Date : 2019/07/17

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

Rio Tinto Group’s much-followed copper discovery in remote Western Australia could leapfrog a key U.S. project to be fast-tracked into production by the world’s No. 2 miner, according to a senior executive.
News ID: 5192   Publish Date : 2019/07/15

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

Africa-focused Firestone Diamonds (LON:FDI) has dug up a 54 carat intense fancy yellow, sawable diamond from its 75%-owned Liqhobong mine, in Lesotho.
News ID: 5089   Publish Date : 2019/07/09

African gold producer Acacia Mining (LON:ACA) posted Monday a 19% output increase for the second quarter from its flagship mine in Tanzania, adding pressure on its largest shareholder, Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD), to revise its low-ball takeover offer.
News ID: 5088   Publish Date : 2019/07/09

Global gold production hit another record just shy of 109m troy ounces in 2018, up more than 23m ounces since the start of the decade.
News ID: 5043   Publish Date : 2019/07/07

Lundin Mining on Friday announced it has closed the acquisition of a 100% ownership stake in Mineração Maracá Indústria e Comércio S/A, which owns the Chapada copper-gold mine in Brazil from Yamana Gold.
News ID: 5042   Publish Date : 2019/07/07

Barrick Gold Corp. is working with advisers to find a buyer for its Massawa gold project in Senegal, which it acquired as part of its purchase of Randgold Resources Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.
News ID: 5041   Publish Date : 2019/07/07

Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY) stock dropped almost 8% on Wednesday, after it announced a wildcat work stoppage on Tuesday at its 100%-owned Aurora mine in Guyana, South America.
News ID: 5028   Publish Date : 2019/07/04

Odisha - India's largest iron ore producing state recorded a decrease in iron ore production for the month of May’19. Production in May’19 stood at 11.7 MnT.
News ID: 5009   Publish Date : 2019/07/03

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

Global mined zinc production will continue to ramp up as strong zinc prices prompt miners to bring idled capacity back online and invest in new projects, according to a new Fitch Solutions report.
News ID: 4999   Publish Date : 2019/07/02

A Zambian court on Friday lifted an order blocking a provisional liquidator at Vedanta’s Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) business from disposing of assets or making arrangements with creditor until a July 4 hearing.
News ID: 4941   Publish Date : 2019/06/30

The dozens of people killed in a landslide at Glencore Plc’s mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlight a constant struggle in the industry: illegal mining.
News ID: 4940   Publish Date : 2019/06/30

Eco Oro Minerals Corp has pulled out of its Angostura gold concession in Colombia amid a legal battle with the Andean country over environmental restrictions the Canadian miner said made the project impossible, according to a company letter.
News ID: 4939   Publish Date : 2019/06/30

Australia’s OceanaGold (ASX, TSX: OGC) said Friday that rumours about a halt of operations at its copper-gold mine in the Philippines were just speculation.
News ID: 4928   Publish Date : 2019/06/29

About 3,200 unionized workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile returned to the operation on Friday, ending a two-week strike that lifted the metal’s price and triggered fresh supply fears.
News ID: 4927   Publish Date : 2019/06/29