February 18, 2021 Barrick beats profit estimates on higher gold prices The Canadian gold miner delivered a sixth straight earnings beat after lifting production and reducing costs.
February 18, 2021 US judge dismisses aluminum antitrust claims The purchasers had accused banks and commodity trading, mining and metals warehousing companies of conspiring to hoard aluminum when prices were low roughly a decade ago.
February 17, 2021 Governments from Mongolia to Mali seek to reopen mining deals Any move to renegotiate agreements will trigger pushback by miners wary of threats to their profit margins, experts said.
February 17, 2021 Rio Tinto starts drilling at Janice Lake RTEC drilling at Forum Energy Metals' 100% owned copper-silver project in Saskatchewan.
February 17, 2021 First Quantum sees no ‘contagion’ risk in Zambia after Mopani deal – COO Zambia became Africa's first pandemic-era sovereign default in November.
February 17, 2021 Rio Tinto to tackle customers’ emissions, hands out biggest dividend ever The miner is giving $9bn in cash back to shareholders and has laid out plans to tackle its global customers' carbon footprint.
February 16, 2021 Barrick sells Lagunas Norte mine in Peru to Boroo The sale is in line with Barrick's policy of selling non-core interests to focus its portfolio on Tier One assets.
February 16, 2021 Nornickel 2020 profit sinks 39% as $2bn set aside to cover fuel spill fine Company has been fined $2-billion for the damage caused by the spill last year in Russia's worst environmental disaster in the Arctic.
February 16, 2021 Fortescue COO, executives step down amid Iron Bridge review Greg Lilleyman and two other executives have resigned as part of a review of its Iron Bridge Magnetite project in Western Australia.
February 16, 2021 Ivanplats to fund up to $420m for palladium, platinum mine The project in Limpopo province is also assessing mining of rhodium, nickel, copper and gold.
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