Freeport at loggerheads with Indonesia over divestment-letter
The world's second-largest publicly traded copper company has issues with the proposed divestment plan, including valuation, timing and structure.
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South Africa’s mining industry fortunes improving, but challenges remain — PwC
A strong price recovery for the main commodities South Africa mines and exports has helped the country’s sector stage a turnaround in 2017, the first time in five years the industry is back in the black.
Botswana Diamonds soars on promising find at South African project
Sampling work at Ontevreden, part of the Vutomi joint venture, seems to prove the presence of high-grade kimberlite pipes.
World’s largest coal miner looking to buy metal mines abroad
Coal India's plan to diversify into mining metals such as copper and nickel with no prior experience is being seen by analysts as a long-term strategy to firm up revenues, with no immediate results in sight.
Clean-tech firm wins million-dollar contract with Northern Quebec mine
BluMetric Environmental will provide its services to an unnamed major global company
Chinese carmaker to take $28m stake in Australian lithium company
Great Wall will be involved in what seems to be the first direct investment in a lithium supplier by an automaker.
Novo Lítio to start drilling at Sweden’s Spodumenberget site
Mapping of the area has shown presence of pegmatite outcrops over a strike length of 340m, up to 100m wide, with surrounding areas masked by glacial cover.
China bought tonnes of North Korean coal
North Korea’s biggest trading partner imported 1.64 million tonnes of coal in August
More opposition to Berkeley’s uranium mine in Spain
Nuclear energy experts from a variety of countries expressed their support to the protest actions carried out by Stop Uranio against Berkeley Minera España