Greenland to hold election watched closely by global mining industry
Greenland holds an election next week that could decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals.
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Vale sells New Caledonia nickel assets to Trafigura
Vale said it will have a supply contract with the Trafigura-led consortium to off-take part of the nickel produced there.
New fuel from plastic waste aims to replace fossil fuels in marine industry
Clean Planet Energy plans to use non-recyclable waste plastics to produce two fuels expected to reduce CO2 emissions from the marine industry by 75%.
BMW, Volvo, Google and Samsung call for ban on deep-sea mining
They are the first global companies to have signed up a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on mining the seabed.
ABB, Hitachi to develop GHG-reducing solutions
The companies plan to apply ABB’s electrification, automation and digital solutions to mining trucks and excavators provided by Hitachi.
Artemis awards $186m EPC contract for Blackwater plant in British Columbia
Ausenco Engineering won the contract for a 5.5 million-tonne-a-year processing plant and related infrastructure at the Blackwater gold project in central B.C.
Congo launches state-owned cobalt miner
Entreprise Générale du Cobalt will sell cobalt hydroxide from artisanal miners under a five-year contract with trading house Trafigura.
50-year gold price vs stocks chart shows bullion fair value above $2,500
Gold vs the S&P 500 since end of gold standard indicates bullion’s bull run to resume based on historical norm. That, or stocks are in for a beating.
The metals of antiquity – copper
If gold has been humankind's most valuable friend throughout the ages, copper has certainly been our most useful.