February 18, 2019 How South African mines cope with power cuts The utility gives the industry notice to reduce their power consumption by 15–20% when the national grid is at its tightest.
February 18, 2019 Malaysia lifts bauxite mining moratorium after 3-year ban Malaysia was once the biggest supplier of bauxite to top buyer China, with shipments peaking at nearly 3.5 million tonnes a month.
February 18, 2019 Buybacks and bumper profits on the cards as mining giants report Big mining has remained stubbornly focused on shareholder returns, rather than spending on acquisitions and big-ticket projects.
February 18, 2019 Grasberg hasn’t received new copper export permit Indonesia forecast copper concentrate exports to drop to 200,000 tonnes in 2019 from about 1.2 million tonnes last year.
February 17, 2019 Australian mine to host first of its kind clean energy storage facility Terramin's Angas zinc mine will host a 5 MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage facility.
February 17, 2019 Recommissioned Aussie mine dispatches first nickel concentrate shipment to China Panoramic Resources' first shipment from the Savannah mine contained 7,735 wmt of nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate valued in approximately $6.1 million.
February 16, 2019 IBM steps up efforts to help miners improve health and safety records The company is working with several wearable technology providers so companies can monitor biometric and environmental data to identify whether employees are experiencing dangers or risk, beyond a equipment failure.
February 15, 2019 Plunging inventories have zinc bulls ready to run Could we be looking at another run in the zinc price like in 2017, when it spiked from $1.19 a pound to $1.61 within only six months (+35%)?
February 15, 2019 Mongolia posts 6.9% economic growth in 2018 Coal and copper generate almost 70% of Mongolia's total export revenues and most of its mining output is sold to neighboring China.
February 15, 2019 Centamin sees mineral resources more than doubling in Côte d’Ivoire The miner has added 780,000 indicated ounces of gold to its Doropo project in Cote d’Ivoire, taking the its overall resource to over 2 million ounces.
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
