March 19, 2021 Zijin posts record annual profit as gold, copper prices surge Company profits rose 51.9% year-on-year in 2020, setting an annual record high.
March 18, 2021 Massive new port could give Vale back iron ore crown A project for a dedicated iron ore port with a capacity of up to 560 million tonnes per year is advancing in the north of Brazil.
March 18, 2021 Teck aims for carbon neutrality by 2050 According to its 2020 sustainability report, Teck aims to have its Chilean operations fully running on clean energy by 2030.
March 18, 2021 US looks to Canada for minerals to build electric vehicles The US government is working to help American miners and battery makers expand into Canada, part of a strategy to boost regional production of minerals used to make electric vehicles…
March 18, 2021 Platinum giants get lifeline as green economy boosts demand After a decade in the doldrums, South Africa’s key platinum industry reported windfall profits last month as supply deficits pushed palladium and rhodium to record highs.
March 18, 2021 Mitsubishi strikes deal with Glencore to buy stake in bauxite project Japanese trading house has agreed to buy a 30% stake in the Aurukun project in Australia.
March 18, 2021 Schlumberger unit to launch Nevada lithium plant as EV demand rises Earlier this year, Albemarle Corp said it would double production at its facility in Silver Peak, Nevada.
March 17, 2021 RANKED: World’s top 10 nickel projects – 2021 No. 1 is a deep sea polymetallic project with a 75,000 square kilometre exploration tenement.
March 17, 2021 Soaring prices spur miners’ hunt for growth, fueling indigenous and investor ire This is the second wave of pressure that investors concerned about ESG issues have laid on miners after successfully forcing mine waste standards updates in 2020.
March 17, 2021 Vale starts operations at Vargem Grande filtering plant In the filtration process, the existing water in the tailings is minimized, allowing most of the material to be stacked in a solid-state.
China aluminum output at record, steel below 1 billion tons Aluminum production increased 2.4% to to 45.02 million tons, having risen every year this decade. January 19, 2026 | 09:27 am
