MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week
Rio Tinto taps finance head as new chief executive; SolGold CEO handed shareholder rebuke at annual meeting; Anglo American to divest from thermal coal operations by 2023
Latest Stories
Perseus pours first gold at Yaouré mine
Company expects to declare commercial production at its mine in Côte d’Ivoire in March 2021 quarter.
Old coal mines can win a second life as green energy hotspots
Australia is studying plans to transform a disused underground coal mine into a pumped hydro facility.
Coal demand to rise 2.6% in 2021 after record decline
Demand for thermal and metallurgical coal should rise to 7,432 million tonnes in 2021, from 7,243 million tonnes this year, according to the International Energy Agency.
AngloGold Ashanti sees strong cash position, CEO search “in progress”
Company will set emissions targets in the second half of 2021.
Antofagasta agrees copper charges for 2021, Codelco to follow
Companies will supply copper concentrate at treatment and refining charges of $59.50 per tonne and 5.95 cents per lb in 2021, signing up at the benchmark rate miners have now managed to lower for six years in a row.
Goldman says bitcoin’s surging popularity won’t harm gold
Bitcoin has seen a blistering rally this month, exceeding $23,000 per token on Thursday.
Rio Tinto outlines Oyu Tolgoi’s path forward
Update specifies "mining by sections" plan that should make of Oyu Tolgoi the world’s No.4 copper operation by 2030.
Caledonia eyes Zimbabwe brownfield project
The Jersey-based miner is interested in a project in the northern section of the currently closed Connemara mine, previously owned by First Quantum Minerals.
