March 31, 2021

Ok Tedi resumes operations after covid-19 shutdown

Ramp-up to full production is expected to take up to two weeks.

March 31, 2021

Greenland to hold election watched closely by global mining industry

Greenland holds an election next week that could decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals.

March 31, 2021

Vale sells New Caledonia nickel assets to Trafigura

Vale said it will have a supply contract with the Trafigura-led consortium to off-take part of the nickel produced there.

March 31, 2021

BMW, Volvo, Google and Samsung call for ban on deep-sea mining

They are the first global companies to have signed up a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on mining the seabed.

March 31, 2021

ABB, Hitachi to develop GHG-reducing solutions

The companies plan to apply ABB’s electrification, automation and digital solutions to mining trucks and excavators provided by Hitachi.

March 31, 2021

Artemis awards $186m EPC contract for Blackwater plant in British Columbia

Ausenco Engineering won the contract for a 5.5 million-tonne-a-year processing plant and related infrastructure at the Blackwater gold project in central B.C.

March 30, 2021

Taseko Mines clears legal hurdles at Florence; advances copper projects

Final design and engineering of the commercial in-situ production facility and the procurement of other critical components is underway.

March 30, 2021

Chinese consortium signs MOU on Algeria iron project

The project will be carried out at Gara Djebilet iron mine, in the southern province of Tindouf.

March 30, 2021

Condor Gold touts drill results at La India

Drill results from the starter pit reinforce the company’s confidence in the geological model, mineral resource, reserve calculation and mining plan.

March 30, 2021

Dundee extends Chelopech mine life to 2029

Total proven and probable reserves are now 18.6 million tonnes grading 2.89 g/t Au, 7.73 g/t Ag and 0.84% Cu.