June 10, 2021

Vale ordered to pay $26 million to families of Brumadinho victims

The disaster killed 270 people but the court action only benefits the families of 131 workers directly hired by Vale.

June 10, 2021

Copper riches are in cross-hairs of Chile presidential hopeful

Daniel Jadue, the current front-runner in polls for November’s elections in Chile, wants to align mining rules with Peru, Argentina and Bolivia so they don’t compete for investments.

June 10, 2021

Drilling at Greatland-Newcrest’s Havieron backs resource expansion

Latest drilling results how further high-grade extensions to the South East Crescent zone of the Havieron gold-copper project.

June 10, 2021

Indonesia tin miner Timah says meets rules, good practices

Tin deposits in the mining hub of Bangka-Belitung have been heavily exploited on land, leaving parts of the islands off the southeast coast of Sumatra island resembling a lunar landscape.

June 10, 2021

Electric vehicles a $7 trillion market opportunity to 2030 – report

BloombergNEF forecasts global sales of zero-emission cars rising to 70% of the market by 2040, thus making demand for battery metals soar.

June 10, 2021

Nature-related financial risk opens new can of worms for miners

Verisk Maplecroft believes that funds and international creditors have an opportunity to drive conservation improvements by tying finance to ESG milestones.

June 9, 2021

FPX Nickel tests potential carbon neutral operation at Baptiste

Carbon sequestration rates at the project were 50% greater than the average rates of capture at BHP’s Mount Keith mine in Western Australia.

June 9, 2021

Largo Resources aiming to capture 3% of clean energy storage market by 2025

Largo’s Clean Energy business can capture 2.1 times the margin of conventional mining.

June 8, 2021

Lucara digs up 470-carat diamond at Karowe

The top light brown "cleavage" diamond measures 49x42x26mm and is Lucara’s third diamond over 300 carats found this year.

June 7, 2021

Russia weighs selling more diamond stocks to tap global demand

The government is preparing a decree to increase planned sales of diamonds from the state repository.