Zijin Mining buys Canada’s Continental Gold in $1 billion deal
The deal would give China’s No.1 gold producer access to the Buriticá gold project in Colombia, expected to begin production next year.
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Two members of Vale’s board step down in connection to deadly dam disaster
The two executives are Marcio Hamilton Ferreira, chair of the finance committee, and Marcelo Augusto Dutra, who leads the compliance committee.
Blackstone Minerals partners with S. Korean firm for lithium ion battery production
Ecopro BM, South Korea's largest ev battery cathode producer, will develop a downstream processing facility with Blackstone's Ta Khoa nickel project in Vietnam.
Afghanistan cancels contract to US gold, copper miner
News agency Khaama Press reports that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani cancelled the contracts held by the JVs formed by US-based CENTAR Limited.
Peru ready to mine uranium, government says
A representative for the Ministry of Energy and Mines said her department is working towards the responsible mining and management of the resource.
Coal power generation continues to drop in the US
While the use of the black fuel plummets, natural gas rises and nuclear generation remains stable.
Growing inequality threatens mining
The rich are getting richer, inequality is on the rise, and the middle class, which since the 1950s has been the backbone of the US economy, is shrinking.
Kyrgyzstan says Centerra’s Kumtor to beat 2019 output forecast
Kumtor is expected to produce 18.2 tonnes of gold this year.
RANKED: Top 10 copper mining projects in the world
Russia can lay claim to the globe's largest undeveloped copper project and two island nations also make the top ten ranking.
