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Cecilia Jamasmie

Cecilia Jamasmie, news editor at MINING.com, has 20 years of experience in print media, TV, online media and public relations. She is particularly interested in Diamonds, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Latin American market. Cecilia has been interviewed by BBC News and CBC among others. She has also been syndicated by Forbes, Seeking Alpha and BIV and been a guest speaker at mining conventions, such as MINExpo 2016 and the World's Copper Conference 2018. She holds a Master of Journalism (MJ) from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and she is currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

BHP final pay offer to Escondida workers falls short of union demands

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 25, 2018, 10:33 AM |

BHP has offer workers a signing on bonus of $27,000, up from an earlier offer of $23,000, plus a 1.5% salary increase, but still well under the bonus up to $43,000 and 5% increase demanded by Escondida’s union.

Wheaton closes streaming deal with gold miner Sibanye

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 25, 2018, 9:30 AM |

The Canadian streaming firm has bought all of Stillwater's gold production for the life of the mine and, initially, also 4.5% of its total palladium output.

Kibali gold mine aims at record output after underground ramp-up

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 25, 2018, 7:54 AM |

DRC's Kibali is moving from underground mining by contractors to owner-mining, as has already happened at the company’s Loulo mines in Mali.

Antofagasta copper output up in Q2 despite Los Pelambres pipeline issue

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 25, 2018, 5:59 AM |

Production in the second-quarter of the year jumped 6.1% to 163,200 tonnes, as higher output at its Centinela and Antucoya mines mitigated declines at Los Pelambres and Zaldívar.

Tianqi goes ahead with $382-million Greenbushes lithium mine expansion

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 25, 2018, 3:48 AM |

The expansion, on top of a $238 million upgrade due for completion in April, will double the mine’s production to 1.95 million tonnes a year of lithium concentrate a year from 2020.

Chile’s copper agency said US-China trade war to hit metal price

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 24, 2018, 8:50 AM |

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China has forced the Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco) to revise downwards its average copper price prediction by $0.06 per pound to $3.

Ecuador mining reforms good news for Lumina Gold’s project

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 24, 2018, 4:39 AM |

Companies can now perform non-systematic drilling during the early exploration phase of their mining concessions and without requiring an environmental license.

Canada scaring mining investors with long, unclear permit processes

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 24, 2018, 1:58 AM |

Study released Tuesday by the Fraser Institute, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are the three main provinces where exploration permit processes have grown longer and less transparent over the past 10 years.

BHP to fight class action over Samarco dam failure

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 23, 2018, 7:35 AM |

Law firm leading the action says it has more than 3,000 investors signed up to pursue the miner for losses.

Nutrien sells stake in Arab Potash to China’s SDIC

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 23, 2018, 6:15 AM |

The $502-million transaction makes the Chinese company Arab Potash's majority shareholder.

Barrick’s Dushnisky quits, becomes AngloGold new CEO

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 23, 2018, 3:45 AM |

Dushnisky will join AngloGold in September, ending the search to replace Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, who left the world’s third-biggest gold miner in April to run India’s Vedanta.

Bacanora Lithium changes its mind on how to fund flagship Sonora mine

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 19, 2018, 12:06 PM |

It has decided not to go ahead with a proposed $100-million share sale to help it fund the Mexican project.

Equinox sells Koricancha mill in Peru to Inca Gold in $12.4 million-deal

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 19, 2018, 11:15 AM |

Koricancha is located about 50km from Inca One’s own processing facility and the potential to produce 50,000 to 75,000 ounces of gold a year.

De Beers buys Canada’s Peregrine Diamonds for $81 million

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 19, 2018, 6:37 AM |

Canadian firm is the sole owner of the Chidliak diamond project in Nunavut.

Miners wrote off almost one-third of investments over last decade

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 19, 2018, 3:43 AM |

From the $939bn invested in major projects between 2008 and 2017, the world’s top 40 mining companies by market cap. wrote-off $273bn or 29% of the initial capital outlay.

Australia’s Northern Minerals makes first rare earth from pilot plant

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 18, 2018, 11:55 AM |

Company aims to be the first significant world producer outside of China of dysprosium, used by electric vehicle makers in the manufacturing of engine magnets.

Wreck of Russian warship carrying $130bn in gold found off South Korea

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 18, 2018, 6:00 AM |

The Dmitrii Donskoi is believed to have sunk in a naval battle 113 years ago, carrying the treasury of the entire flotilla, which would have included port expenses, as well as salaries of sailors and officers.

Peru unit of Plateau Energy finds one of ‘world’s largest’ lithium resource

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 18, 2018, 3:14 AM |

Company plans to complete a feasibility study next year, which will reveal whether the proposed $800 million, underground lithium-uranium mine can and should be built.

Earth holds quadrillion tonnes of diamonds deep beneath its surface

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 18, 2018, 1:15 AM |

Getting to them would take technology far beyond what we currently have at our disposal.

Lakes, rivers near abandoned mine sites likely source of antibiotics

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 17, 2018, 8:57 AM |

Canadian researches came to such conclusion after spending years examining waterbodies located within five kilometres of abandoned mine sites.

LME to launch monthly 'implied pricing' for base metals

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 17, 2018, 5:25 AM |

Starting on July 30, the LME will start providing a set of synthetic monthly prices for the six main base metals — copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and tin.

Nevsun passes on Lundin’s $1.4 billion fresh takeover bid

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 17, 2018, 3:48 AM |

The base metals producer said that, while it has not yet received a formal offer from Lundin, the bid announced Monday the bid ignores the fundamental value of the company and its assets.

Fura Gems grabs more ruby assets in Mozambique

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 16, 2018, 9:25 AM |

Gemstone producer us is expanding its footprint in Mozambique by acquiring nine ruby assets from ASX-listed Mustang Resources and Regius Resources Group.

Vale’s iron ore output hit fresh record high despite trucker strike

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 16, 2018, 7:00 AM |

Iron ore output hit 96.755-million tonnes in the three months to June 30, while pellet output reached 12.838-million tonnes, despite a nationwide truck drivers strike that paralyzed the country in May.

Randgold’s Tongon mine in Ivory Coast hit by strike

Cecilia Jamasmie | Jul. 16, 2018, 5:50 AM |

Labour action has brought gold production to a halt.