Column: Soft China PMI likely to flow through to uneven commodity demand
The surprise contraction in China's manufacturing index in April underlines the uneven nature of the recovery in the world's second-biggest economy.
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Peak Rare Earths locks in $18 million to develop Tanzania project
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No mining allowed in six new Indigenous reserves in Brazil
Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ Da Silva issued a decree creating six new Indigenous reserves, most of them in the Amazon, and banning mining in such areas.
Three-quarters of small earthquakes in South Korea related to mining explosions – study
Out of 182,000 small seismic events that took place in seven years in South Korea, 135,000 were related to mining explosions.
For the first time in 50 years, a woman will lead one of Codelco’s divisions
Claudia Cabrera Correa, an executive with 24 years of experience in the mining industry, becomes the first female general manager of the Gabriela Mistral division.
Mexican Senate expeditiously approves set of laws, mining reform
The Mexican Senate approved a new mining law that the mining chamber and Canada rebuked.
Brazil’s Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine
Their ancestral land overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.
