CIM selects Samantha Espley as its new Incoming President Elect 2020-2021
Espley is very active in the mining community as a board member of MIRARCO and the Canada Mining Innovation Council.
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Even Europe’s biggest coal addict now wants to clean up its act
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Guinea gives preliminary go-ahead for new bauxite project
Guinea is Africa's top bauxite producer and output more than doubled last year to about 50 million tonnes.
US coal output just took another hit as demand keeps fading
The economic case for mining coal to generate electricity in the U.S. continues to fade.
Copper rookie looks to Glencore and Chinese for downstream dream
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Asia Gold-Buyers unimpressed by price dip; India shifts to premium
Physical gold demand lacked vigour in most Asian hubs this week amid a slight dip in prices.
Up to 500,000 tonnes of alumina being exported from China as Rusal crisis bites
The sanctions against Rusal, world's second-biggest aluminium producer, have up-ended the supply chain as companies cut contracts to use Rusal metal.
World’s top uranium miner Cameco back in the black
But the Canadian company said the uranium market remained “quiet.”
China says Chile move to block $5bn SQM lithium deal could be harmful
If China’s Tianqi grabs a stake in Chile’s SQM, the world’s lowest cost lithium miner, it would mean the top three producers would control at least 80% of the total market, Chile’s government has said.