December 21, 2020 Excellon expands Kilgore gold property Remote sensing work produced results suggestive of alteration associated with target epithermal gold systems.
December 21, 2020 Excelsior produces first copper cathode at Gunnison in Arizona The in-situ recovery (ISR) operation is expected to sell the first copper cathodes in January 2021.
December 21, 2020 Sundance seeks $8.8bn in damages over canceled Congo iron ore project The Congolese government revoked its permit for the Nabeba project.
December 21, 2020 Kuya to acquire First Cobalt’s exploration assets in Ontario Kuya Silver entered into a letter of intent with First Cobalt to purchase a portion of the Kerr assets.
December 21, 2020 Traders at odds with China import ban keep coal cargoes in limbo Worsening relations between Beijing and Canberra have stranded 74 vessels, about 8.1 million tons of coal, and an estimated 1,480 mariners off Chinese ports.
December 21, 2020 Global copper output to grow over the next decade – report Fitch Solutions forecasts global copper mine production to increase by an average annual rate of 3.7% over 2021-2029.
December 21, 2020 Gran Colombia shares up on drill results at Segovia Drilling highlights include 51.22 g/t Au and 1.9 g/t Ag over 1.91 meters on the Providencia Vein.
December 21, 2020 Lundin’s Chapada back in full production Company withdrew its 2020 guidance for the mine in northern Brazil in September, after a power outage caused damage to all four of the operation’s SAG and ball mill motors.
December 21, 2020 Vale gets license to start work at Capanema Project will add net capacity of 14 million tonnes per year at the Timbopeba site.
December 21, 2020 Researchers develop method to recover palladium, silver from industrial waste A team at Kanazawa University discovered how to selectively adsorb silver and palladium ions from aqueous acidic waste.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am