De Beers puts South Africa’s Voorspoed mine up for sale
Company says move paves the way for a lower-cost operator to take the diamond mine beyond 2020, when it is scheduled to close.
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South32 to spin off South Africa coal business
Process could lead to a listing of the business on the Johannesburg stock exchange, it said.
Clothes not coal incinerated by Swedish power plant
The fortunes of a lagging coal industry were not helped by the actions of a Swedish power plant last week.
Clive Palmer’s $197m win revives nickel hopes
Clive Palmer says he will look to use the proceeds from his $US150 million ($197.4m) legal victory over Chinese corporate giant Citic to reopen his shuttered Townsville nickel refinery in north Queensland.
Lawsuit could be precedent-setting for Canadian mining companies operating abroad
Legal proceedings were held last week in Toronto related to a case against a Canadian mining company that formerly was operating through a subsidiary in Guatemala.
The race to make mines smarter
SAP touts success with its own AI and predictive analytic tools.
These are the top mining projects in Peru to watch in 2018
Mining investment in Peru is expected to grow 9% this year when compared to 2016, marking the end of a three-year decline than began in 2014, to reach $10 billion next year thanks to these projects.
Border dispute temporarily halts Canadian miner’s operations in Burkina Faso
The Minister of Mines said his decision will be in place until the border with Niger is physically demarcated. However, violence has increased in the area in past months.
New plant in the UK aims to transform biomass into ‘coal’
This would be the first complex of its type in the country.