South Africa lockdown squeezes global chrome supply The country is the world's biggest producer of chrome ore and last year provided 83% of China’s total chrome imports. Reuters | March 31, 2020 | 4:43 pm
Newcrest earns 40% interest in Havieron Australia's largest gold producer has now reached its Stage 2 farm-in milestone at the project. MINING.com Editor | March 31, 2020 | 4:04 pm
Copper price in last ditch rally Copper price jumps 4% as China manufacturing rebounds, but analysts warn market is far from returning to normal levels. Frik Els | March 31, 2020 | 2:36 pm
Canada continues Transmountain pipeline construction The Alberta provincial government will backstop the Canadian portion of the Keystone XL with a C$7 billion commitment. Nelson Bennett - Business in Vancouver | March 31, 2020 | 2:23 pm
Springpole PFS expected in early 2021, says First Mining Metallurgical testwork as well as tradeoff optimization studies are underway to refine inputs for the PFS. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 31, 2020 | 1:58 pm
RPMGlobal expands mobile offering RPMGlobal is a leader in the mining software solutions space. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 31, 2020 | 1:54 pm
Major launches ID-enabled FLEX-MAT Radio-frequency identification technology tracks and stores screen media data, such as panel dimensions and customer-defined details. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 31, 2020 | 1:51 pm
Ero Copper’s Brazil operations not impacted The company is maintaining its full-year production, capital and operating cost guidance for 2020. Jackson Chen | March 31, 2020 | 1:49 pm
Luminex grows Condor with first Camp resource Company has unveiled a maiden resource at its Condor project in southeast Ecuador, of 11.9 million inferred tonnes grading 2.95 g/t gold equivalent for 1.1 million gold-equivalent oz. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 31, 2020 | 1:46 pm