February 8, 2021 Elon Musk offers $100 million for best carbon capture innovation Sum will be awarded for the best technology created for removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and store that carbon in a safe, cost-effective way.
February 5, 2021 Tsingshan to finance bulk of $2.8bn Indonesia copper smelter with Freeport The smelter could produce copper pipes and wires with an output value of $10 billion.
February 5, 2021 Zambia is done for now with taking over mining companies Zambia last century had a painful experience with mine nationalization.
February 5, 2021 Eldorado Gold inks revised investment contract with Greece Deal covers all the miner's projects in northern Greece, which have repeatedly stalled over licensing delays and environmental concerns.
February 5, 2021 Mineração Vale Verde secures $140m for Serrote project in Brazil The Serrote copper-gold project is now fully funded through to production.
February 5, 2021 Portofino Resources receives encouraging results at South of Otter project in Ontario The Vancouver-based miner received encouraging soil-gas-hydrocarbons silver-copper-volcanogenic massive sulfides-in-soil results at South of Otter.
February 5, 2021 Nornickel fined $2 billion for massive Arctic fuel spill Amount more than doubles what Russia is seeking to get in mineral extraction tax this year.
February 4, 2021 US court upholds Trump’s national security tariffs on steel imports A three judge panel found the Commerce Department and Trump properly applied a Cold War-era trade law in imposing the tariffs.
February 4, 2021 MINING.COM reaches one million monthly readers Readers from all over the world flocked to MINING.COM for breaking news and opinions as the transformation of the industry gained pace.
February 4, 2021 Sale of Ekati mine to Arctic Canadian Diamond closes Dominion Diamond retains its 40% stake in the Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.
Zimbabwe to continue mineral purchases in 2026, central bank governor says The central bank has aggressively pursued a foreign currency accumulation strategy through mandatory mining royalties, outright gold purchases and leveraging on the rally in gold. December 28, 2025 | 09:29 am
