Vale and France’s GravitHy sign carbon neutral steel study The agreement will focus on studies to build a factory to produce briquettes from Vale's high-grade iron ore through direct reduction. Reuters | May 9, 2023 | 7:48 am
Glencore to build Europe’s largest battery recycling plant It has partnered up with Canada’s Li-Cycle to convert an old lead refinery in Italy into a facility to recover key metals from batteries. Cecilia Jamasmie | May 9, 2023 | 6:43 am
Black lung disease more common among modern coal miners than in their predecessors Scarring from silica dust exposure was more common in contemporary miners than in those born before 1930. Staff Writer | May 9, 2023 | 5:43 am
China’s halts 32 coal mines in northwest, suspends expansion plans Measures follow an accident in late February at an open-pit coal mine that killed at least five and left 48 people missing. Reuters | May 9, 2023 | 4:10 am
Fortuna Silver to buy West Africa-focused Chesser Resources for $60m Deal expands Fortuna's footprint in West Africa, where it has the Yaramoko gold mining complex in Burkina Faso and the Séguéla project in Côte d’Ivoire. Cecilia Jamasmie | May 9, 2023 | 3:55 am
Tesla breaks ground on massive Texas lithium refinery The move will make Tesla the only major automaker in North America that will refine its own lithium. Reuters | May 8, 2023 | 4:42 pm
Rio Tinto marks 20-year production milestone at Diavik diamond mine Diavik's workforce of about 1,100 people is nearly a quarter Indigenous and some 40% is Northern. Staff Writer | May 8, 2023 | 4:13 pm
Deadly gold mine fire in Peru highlights dismal safety record Between 2010 and 2021, more than 500 workers died in Peru, twice the deaths compared to neighboring Chile. Bloomberg News | May 8, 2023 | 1:22 pm
Faraday Copper PEA ‘scratches the surface’ with a $2.7bn, 32-year Copper Creek plan A new resource estimate underpins the PEA at the Arizona project. Henry Lazenby | May 8, 2023 | 12:34 pm