March 26, 2018 Platinum mines in the world’s top producer are shrinking Producers in South Africa are closing shafts and cutting jobs as a stronger rand combines with stagnating prices for the metal in squeezing profit margins.
March 26, 2018 Congo’s 2017 mining revenue up 36% while oil revenue doubles Mining revenue in the fourth quarter more than doubled helped by higher prices for key exports such as copper and cobalt.
March 26, 2018 Hecla Mining sues Montana after told to clean up before starting new projects The state’s "bad actor" law has only been used once before, and Hecla’s president and chief executive officer, Phillips Baker is the first top executive at a large company to…
March 26, 2018 SolGold on a roll, confirms major copper-gold target at Ecuador project Results from 11 of the 12 drilling rigs at its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, suggest there is much more intense mineralization in the property than thought earlier, the company said.
March 26, 2018 Two risks threaten commodities, one bullish, one bearish: Russell The are two main factors that appear to be emerging that may threaten an end to the current quite rosy picture surrounding demand for commodities such as iron ore, steel…
March 25, 2018 Workers at Chilean mine Escondida accept early contract talks Failure to reach a labor deal caused a 44-day strike at the mine last year.
March 25, 2018 Mexican environment officials visit mine following cyanide spill Some 200 litres of cyanide solution were released into the environment.
March 23, 2018 South Korea on verge of trade deal -Trump Trump said the agreement "would be a wonderful deal with a wonderful ally."
March 23, 2018 Companies now looking for electric battery metals in the garbage Soaring cobalt and lithium prices are pushing some companies to dig for them in the recycle bin, which some believe could be even more profitable than mining them.
March 22, 2018 Codelco reaches agreement with professionals at Ministro Hales mine The 36-month contract was approved by 75 per cent of the union.
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