June 12, 2017 Coking coal price slides to 8-month low Cyclone Debbie forcing Asian steelmakers to diversify supply – Mozambique could be big beneficiary.
June 12, 2017 Tanzania accuses Acacia of illegal mining in fresh blow to Barrick’s subsidiary Government accused the gold miner of operating illegally in the country and said it has been evading taxes.
June 12, 2017 K+S Bethune mine in Canada churns out first tonnes of potash The mine, which began operations last month, is expected to produce 600,000 to 700,000 tonnes of potash this year and 2 million tonnes per year once at full capacity.
June 12, 2017 Gem Diamonds finds two large rocks at flagship mine in Lesotho The last time Gem Diamonds had had made a significant discovery at its Letšeng mine before April this year was in 2015.
June 11, 2017 New met-coal mine opens in Pennsylvania President Donald Trump didn't waste the opportunity to press his pro-coal agenda by mentioning the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania.
June 11, 2017 Scania Mining offering smaller mining-truck model to compete with “yellow iron” Scania holds a strong market position in the production of smaller-class mining trucks, known in the U.S. as Class 8 (>33,000 pounds or 14,969 kg) vehicles.
June 11, 2017 3,000-year-old copper mask is oldest crafted object in South America It's a well-known fact that copper was used by ancient peoples to make some of the earliest tools and artwork.
June 11, 2017 Taseko in court to appeal defamation win by enviro-group Taseko Mines (TSX:TKO), the company behind a large copper-gold project in north-central British Columbia, was back in court last week to appeal a 2016 decision that went against it.
June 9, 2017 DOE funds $6.9M in projects to extract REEs from coal The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building on earlier funding into research aimed at pulling rare earth elements (REEs) from coal.
June 9, 2017 Glencore snatches Rio Tinto-owned mines from Yancoal with $2.55B offer Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON:GLEN) has performed a coup d'etat on a deal that was practically sealed between Yancoal Australia (ASX:YAL) and Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON:RIO) for Rio's coal…
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