De Beers makes diamond buyers cough up cash with fresh price rise
The world's largest diamond miner by value is said to have hiked prices by about 8% for big stones and 20% for small ones at the latest sale.
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Russian exporters of nickel, steel, aluminum and copper paid extra export taxes in the last five months of 2021.
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BHP to introduce electric trains at Pilbara mines
The four locomotives, scheduled for delivery in late 2023, will be supplied by Progress Rail, a unit of Caterpillar, and Wabtec Corp.
Vale, other Brazil miners ramp up production as rains subside
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One community in southern Peru says it won’t disrupt Las Bambas operations
The Challhuahuacho community signed a memorandum of understanding committing to avoid blockades on the Southern Mining Corridor.
CO2 storage project in America’s coal country one step closer to becoming a reality
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Flawed diamonds may be the key to quantum internet
Japanese researchers discovered that diamonds’ atomic defects where carbon is replaced by nitrogen or another element may offer a close-to-perfect interface for quantum computing.
Peru’s economy grows 3.47% in November, but mining contracts amid protests
An advance in consumption was offset by a drop in the country's key mining sector beset by environmental protests.
