Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter certified for responsible aluminium production The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative granted Rio Tinto a provisional responsible aluminium production certification for ISAL. MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 4, 2021 | 6:07 am
Centamin to start building solar plant at Sukari The $37 million project also includes 7.5 MW battery–energy storage system and is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2022. Cecilia Jamasmie | May 4, 2021 | 5:00 am
World’s top jewellery maker Pandora to use only lab-made diamonds The Danish jewellery maker will stop selling mined diamonds and focus on more affordable, sustainable, lab-grown gems. Cecilia Jamasmie | May 4, 2021 | 3:48 am
Livent results top expectations as lithium demand begins to rebound The company said it would resume expansions in the US and Argentina that had been paused last year. Reuters | May 3, 2021 | 3:18 pm
Silver leads precious metals gains on dollar, factory data A gauge of factory activity fell in April from a more than 37-year high a month earlier. Bloomberg News | May 3, 2021 | 3:08 pm
Anglo American CEO: “45% of the world’s economic activity is driven by the mining sector” There remains a gulf between the public perception of mining and the reality of mining. Alisha Hiyate - the Canadian Mining Journal | May 3, 2021 | 12:33 pm
Proposed new royalty unsettles miners in Chile Deputies in Chile’s lower house gave their general backing to a constitutional reform that would impose a flat 3% royalty on the production of copper and lithium to finance environmental and social programs. Tom Azzopardi, Special to The Northern Miner | May 3, 2021 | 10:48 am
Gold Mountain to begin Elk Gold project construction in BC The company anticipates construction to begin this month. MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 3, 2021 | 10:08 am
USDX, gold miners: the lion and the jackals While gold, silver and mining stocks’ gaze across the grassland, the sun has likely set on their recent rallies. Sunshine Profits | May 3, 2021 | 10:00 am