Chinese consortium puts workers on forced leave after Guinea halts Simandou
WCS forced workers to take one month's leave, and if the project has not restarted after that, they will be laid off.
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Botswana Diamonds kicks off drilling at Thorny River’s high-grade area
The exploration program focuses on the recently discovered high-grade geophysical area of the diamond project.
Education Spotlight: Safety and operational efficiency
Vista Training CEO and Edumine course designer Bruce Rabe learned very early in life how vital safety measures are to operating industrial machinery.
Feeding copper to microbes may help curb GHG emissions
Copper is key to avoiding the production of nitrous oxide, the third most potent greenhouse gas.
Barrick close to final deal with Pakistan on $7bn copper project
Teams from Barrick and Pakistan are currently finalizing a framework deal to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.
BHP may reconsider investments in Chile if tax hikes go forward
BHP said in a statement that higher taxes would make Chile more expensive than other top mining jurisdictions like Australia, Canada and Peru.
CMOC’s Congo mine suspends copper and cobalt exports
MOC's Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine has suspended all exports.
Hundreds of hectares of pristine rainforest destroyed by illegal mining in Venezuela
A local NGO says that the destruction of Venezuela’s tropical rainforest by illegal miners and armed groups is done with authorities’ consent.
Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals
The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.
