June 12, 2019 Wheaton Precious Metals leverages blockchain to streamline accounting The platform, which Blockhead Technologies says is the future of mining technology, enables companies to have greater control over their current data.
June 12, 2019 Norway fund may have to offload $1bn stake in Glencore in shift away from coal Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund may have to sell a $1 billion stake in commodities firm Glencore and other investments to […]
June 12, 2019 Konkola Copper Mines plans to restart smelter on June 22 The Nchanga smelter, near Zambia's border with Democratic Republic of Congo, had been idle pending availability of concentrates.
June 12, 2019 Freeport Indonesia to start smelter construction mid-2020 Freeport agreed to build a copper smelter in Indonesia within five years of closing a deal last December with the Indonesian government on the operatorship of the giant Grasberg copper…
June 11, 2019 China Minmetals Rare Earth starts new mining project in Hunan The project in Jianghua county is expected to begin production in February 2020, with estimated output of 1,800 tonnes a year of rare earth oxides.
June 11, 2019 Albemarle details efforts to boost its Chilean lithium output by 30% The company described a process that evokes the industry standard of using a series of evaporation ponds.
June 11, 2019 Barrick makes further investment in Midas Gold Midas estimates Stibnite would have a mine life of 12 years with life-of-mine total cash costs of $597 per oz. and all-in sustaining costs of US$616 per oz.
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.
Op-ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
