June 11, 2019 Successful gold mining starts with orebody quality says Barrick’s Mark Bristow If you start with a really underwhelming ore body, you’re never going to make any money
June 11, 2019 Vedanta to challenge winding up of Zambian business in court The Zambian government says KCM has breached the terms of its licence.
June 10, 2019 Dividend proposal at Russia’s Nornickel not being discussed – Potanin spokesman Some shareholders at Russia's Norilsk Nickel were not satisfied by a proposal to change its dividend policy.
June 10, 2019 Tianqi says happy ‘for now’ with stake in SQM Tianqi last December bought a 23.8 percent share in SQM from Canadian fertilizer company Nutrien for $4.1B, the largest deal in history for a lithium asset.
June 9, 2019 Brazil’s Vale will invest $1.9B to shut down nine dams All of the tailing dams are located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
June 7, 2019 Nyrstar suspends Port Pirie lead smelter, declares force majeure It stopped output at Port Pirie on May 28 due to an unplanned outage at the blast furnace.
June 7, 2019 Major miners reveal tailings dam data, action plans following disasters In April, ethical investors working on a global standard for tailings dams had written to 683 listed resource companies, including major miners, asking for information to be made public within…
June 6, 2019 Codelco sweetens offer to avoid strike at Chuquicamata mine The company's latest proposal includes a slightly higher signing bonus than previous offers, union officials said.
June 6, 2019 Diamond markets under pressure — Rapaport The international group says sales of polished diamonds below 0.50 carats are slow due to excess supply, weak Chinese demand and tight Indian liquidity.
June 5, 2019 Purepoint Uranium updates work at Hook Lake An electromagnetic survey of the Spitfire and Dragon zones was conducted to follow up on last winter’s drilling.
South32 posts nearly 17% jump in quarterly manganese output The world's biggest manganese producer produced 1.3 million wet metric tons of the steel additive for the December quarter. January 21, 2026 | 02:06 pm
