Guinea talks carbon tax on mines as it seeks $4.3 billion loans
Guinea is among the world’s top producers of bauxite, a raw material used to produce aluminum.
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Exxon aims to make key lithium technology decision by year-end
The company last fall announced its long-anticipated plan to filter lithium from the Smackover brine formation that flows under Arkansas.
Kinross Gold lifts Great Bear inferred resource by 45%
Great Bear now contains 3.3 million oz. gold in 22.7 million inferred tonnes, open pit and underground, grading 4.5 grams gold per tonne.
Vale to follow BHP on new provisions over dam failure, analysts say
Analysts have calculated an additional provision between about $3.5 billion and $3.6 billion to match BHP provisions for the year.
Albemarle says lithium prices are unsustainably low
Lithium prices have dropped more than 80% in the past year.
First commercial gravity storage for energy planned in Finnish mine
Gravitricity has chosen the former Pyhäjärvi mine, Europe’s deepest copper-zinc mine, to deploy its technology.
New release makes DigiGeoData the go-to mineral intelligence tool
DigiGeoData Inc., the developer of the online interactive Atlas mapping tool and publisher of the industry standard Exploration Activity Maps, announces the […]
Mexican mining sector balks at plan to ban open-pit mines
The industry says such a move would be disastrous for the sector, which fuels 2.5% of gross domestic product.
France offers loan to New Caledonia nickel firm Prony to avert collapse
Prony Resources is one of three nickel processors in the French territory that face insolvency as high costs and political tensions have hit profitability.
