China to build overseas iron ore mines to ensure supply

Country aims to build one or two globally significant overseas iron ore mines by 2025

Reuters | December 31, 2020 | 8:39 am

IAMGOLD, AngloGold Ashanti close Mali mine sale

The $150 million Sadiola sale was first announced in December 2019, but delayed over a coup.

MINING.com Editor | December 30, 2020 | 3:17 pm

Miners praise US spending bill that funds rare earth

The pandemic aid and spending package signed by Donald Trump includes more than $800 million to fund rare earth.

Reuters | December 30, 2020 | 12:14 pm

Two workers trapped in underground mine in Chile

Chile’s mining agency is leading the rescue efforts.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 30, 2020 | 11:45 am

Precious metals and the fight against covid

Precious metals have broad applications in the medical field, well beyond the dental uses most people associate with them.

Sprott Asset Management | December 30, 2020 | 11:10 am

Today’s dirty utilities may be tomorrow’s ESG winners

Does it make sense to invest in a company that’s already ticked a lot of ESG boxes or one that could yet do so?

Bloomberg Opinion | December 30, 2020 | 10:28 am

Over 3,000 diamonds recovered from Star-Orion South project in Saskatchewan

The gems, weighing over 210 carats, were recovered from the ninth bulk sample trench excavated on the Star kimberlite.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 30, 2020 | 10:25 am

First gold poured at Canada’s newest gold mine

Pure Gold expects to reach commercial production at its eponymous mine by the end of Q1 2021.

Northern Miner Staff | December 30, 2020 | 10:10 am

Samarco expects to reach pre-2015 production by 2029

Company estimates that only in 9 years it should reach a production scale between 22-24 million tonnes of iron ore per year, the same level as before the failure of the Fundão dam.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 30, 2020 | 9:55 am

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