November 27, 2019 Rio and Centre of Excellence to grow indigenous participation in minerals development in North America Rio Tinto is the first resources company to join the partnership with a contribution of A$1 million over 5 years.
November 27, 2019 Anglo CEO urges South Africa to upgrade rail, ports to boost mining The government must tackle unresolved issues in the mining charter and “bring stability” to Eskom.
November 27, 2019 First Quantum may team up with Rio Tinto to develop Peru copper mine First Quantum owns the Haquira deposit in southern Peru and Rio owns the La Granja porphyry copper project in the South American country.
November 27, 2019 Vale to shutter Mozambique coal operations for 3 months The move could have severe implications for the country’s balance of payments and currency, as coal is by far its biggest source of export earnings.
November 27, 2019 BHP’s Henry signals new technology a focus in first speech Henry said a BHP team had built an Internet of Things sensor gateway, which collects real time data from sensors on mobile and fixed equipment.
November 27, 2019 Anglo American sells stake in Australian coal mine for $141m A 12% interest in the Grosvenor coking coal mine is being acquired by a consortium of Japanese companies.
November 26, 2019 Rio Tinto invests $749 million in Pilbara iron ore mine The company said the project is expected to deliver internal rate of return with a capital intensity of about $25 per tonne of production capacity.
November 26, 2019 Vale sees $1.6 billion impairment charge for Q4 in New Caledonia write down Vale said its annual assets review of its base metals and coal business is still underway and further impairments charges that would also impact fiscal year 2019 cannot be ruled…
November 26, 2019 Mongolia says Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi mine expansion to go ahead The miner feared the government would try to completely renegotiate the agreements underpinning the asset's development.
November 25, 2019 BHP becomes Ecuador-focused SolGold’s largest shareholder Australia's largest gold producer Newcrest Mining was, until now, SolGold’s largest shareholder.
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