Oil sands crude could get even heavier amid pipeline shortage
Producers are looking to remove condensate and other light oils from the oil-sands bitumen they produce, so they can get more of it onto rail cars.
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Kinross Gold sells royalty portfolio to Maverix Metals for $74m
The deal involves 25 precious metals royalties and a number of early stage development and exploration projects.
Nordgold encouraged by drill results from Nunavut project
Ten drill holes confirmed the continuation of the high-grade mineralisation at Vickers.
There’s a system to control mine dust remotely
Launched by Tecpro, the solution is the brain-child of EMiControls.
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.
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.
