World mine copper production up 5.7% in the first five months of 2018
Help from Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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Teck partially suspends smelter due to forest fire smoke
No timeline for resumption of operations.
Brazil’s Samarco mine unlikely to restart in 2019 -BHP
There is little likelihood that Brazil's Samarco iron ore mine, a joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Billiton, will restart operations next year even though it expects to have all of the required licenses.
South African gold sector wage negotiations deadlock – union
Wage negotiations in the gold sector are at a deadlock and the South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has declared a dispute, a move that is one step short of a strike.
Three companies from Canada, China, Russia bid for Serbian copper mine
Serbia's government said it was seeking a partner to invest at least $350 million in debt-laden RTB Bor.
The 30 countries leading the way in environmental credentials
List was complied using the environmental performance index (EPI), which has nine key categories: agriculture, air quality, biodiversity and habitat, climate and energy, forests, fisheries, health impacts, water resources, and water and sanitation.
Trump promised to bring back coal – It’s declining again
Nineteen months into his term, there’s little improvement.
Trump to relax carbon limits on power plants to support US coal
The new plan would hand authority to states to create narrower rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired plants.
Technical issue disrupts BHP’s Olympic Dam copper smelter
Company is assessing the impact of an ongoing outage at the processing plant.
