Zimbabwean rescuers pulled the bodies of at least 22 illegal gold miners out of shafts west of Harare that were flooded earlier in the week, and rescued eight more alive, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.
News ID: 3663 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
Iron ore mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) issued a statement Friday advising that there was a fire in one of the transfer houses of the belt conveyor system at its distribution center in Malaysia.
News ID: 3648 Publish Date : 2019/02/16
The world’s largest new copper mine rumbled to a start this week in the Panamanian jungle, poised to supply a global market that’s tipping into deficit and gives First Quantum Minerals Ltd. a chance to prove its $10 billion investment was worth all the trouble.
News ID: 3629 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
Eight employees of the Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) were arrested on Friday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the deadly dam disaster in the town of Brumadinho, which killed at least 166 with over a hundred still missing.
News ID: 3627 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
RSC Mining and Mineral Exploration Services compiles the best drill intersections around the world and then ranks them based on gold equivalent grams per tonne using ruling metal and mineral prices.
News ID: 3596 Publish Date : 2019/02/08
About 700 people were evacuated on Friday from two different towns in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where a dam collapse last month killed at least 157 people, with nearly 200 still missing and feared dead.
News ID: 3595 Publish Date : 2019/02/08
A study by Wood Mackenzie forecasts that global lead production, excluding that of China, will increase in 2019 by about 250 kt, which is equivalent to over 10% of current output.
News ID: 3552 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
Global miner Anglo American laid off 180 workers at its flagship Los Bronces mine in central Chile, part of a plan to boost productivity at the deposit that has raised the ire of some of its unionized workers.
News ID: 3512 Publish Date : 2019/01/31
Outotec has been awarded a contract to design and deliver a mine paste backfill system to a nickel mine in Canada.
News ID: 3484 Publish Date : 2019/01/29
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc is evaluating building a new concentrator plant at its Centinela mine that would cost around $3 billion, the chief executive of the company was quoted telling a local daily on Sunday.
News ID: 3454 Publish Date : 2019/01/28
European miners will maintain their position at the forefront of integrating technology, particularly in more developed markets, due to a highly skilled workforce and high levels of connectivity among the more developed economies, a regional overview published by Fitch Solutions reports.
News ID: 3428 Publish Date : 2019/01/26
Freeport McMoRan Inc shares slid 9 percent on Thursday after the world's second-largest copper miner posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast a drop in 2019 production.
News ID: 3396 Publish Date : 2019/01/25
Residents of the Combayo community, located in the Cajamarca department of northern Peru, announced a protest for February 6, 2019, against Minera Yanacocha, owned by Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), Peru’s Buenaventura, and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.
News ID: 3347 Publish Date : 2019/01/21
China Molybdenum, which bought the giant Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine from Freeport-McMoRan in 2016, is buying a holding company for $1.14 billion that will give it an 80%-stake in Democratic Republic of Congo’s operation.
News ID: 3313 Publish Date : 2019/01/18
A coal mine roof collapse in northwest China's Shaanxi province killed 21 miners on Saturday, the state-run People's Daily reported on Sunday.
News ID: 3247 Publish Date : 2019/01/14
Gold miners are expected to remain committed to cutting costs and capping expenditures in 2019, a new report by Fitch Solutions reveals.
News ID: 3244 Publish Date : 2019/01/14
Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) is reviewing “all funding options” to pay for the full closure and rehabilitating of its Ranger uranium mine, after studies showed the cost would be almost A$300 million (about $213m) higher than previous estimates.
News ID: 3242 Publish Date : 2019/01/13
Canada’s Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC) has kicked off the new year with yet another massive find at its flagship Karowe diamond mine in Botswana.
News ID: 3225 Publish Date : 2019/01/11
Concentrate exports from Indonesia's Grasberg mine, the world's second-largest copper mine, will drop about 85% this year because of a lag in output while operations shift from open pit to underground mining, a government official said on Wednesday.
News ID: 3221 Publish Date : 2019/01/10
Canada’s Lucara Diamond (TSX:LUC), the company that hit the jackpot in 2016 after finding the world’s second-largest diamond, said Tuesday its priority this year will be the completion of a feasibility study into potential underground production and life-of-mine expansion for its Karowe project, in Botswana.
News ID: 3209 Publish Date : 2019/01/09
