Rio Tinto exits seen reverberating across boardrooms
CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques and two deputies resigned on Friday after weeks of shareholder pressure.
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Tesla in talks to buy low carbon nickel from Canada
The company is in discussions with Canadian miner Giga Metals about helping to develop a large mine.
De Beers sales hint diamond market has bottomed out
Improved sales show the diamond market may have bottomed out and be on the slow road to recovery, say analysts.
No fear over Brazil meeting iron ore export demand – secretary
IBRAM projects that the country will export 310 million tonnes in 2020.
MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week
Barrick CEO faces stark test; Definitive feasibility study for Kakula confirms giant mine; Freeport’s Grasberg go-go days back.
Eight mines the size of Glencore’s Katanga needed to meet battery metals demand – report
Wood Mackenzie states that the cobalt market would have to double and 800 kt LCE of additional lithium would be needed by 2025 to limit global warming by 2.5 degrees.
Greatland, Newcrest to deliver initial resource at Havieron in Q4 2020
Newcrest’s ongoing drilling campaign at the Havieron deposit identified a new breccia zone open at depth and which continues to expand with further drilling.
Rio Tinto heads roll over sacred Aboriginal site destruction
CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques, iron ore boss Chris Salisbury, and corporate affairs head Simone Niven will have to step down.
Freeport’s Grasberg go-go days back as gold, copper prices rally
Freeport's iconic open cut mine in Indonesia is going underground – nearly doubling copper and gold production and earning $8 billion per year in the process.
