MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week
Glencore taps coal head Gary Nagle as new CEO; Mining supercycle talk back; Carmakers have blind spot for lithium, cobalt, nickel prices
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Serengeti, Sun Metals merge on BC copper-gold project
Stardust copper-gold property is northeast of Smithers.
Vale postpones sale of operations in New Caledonia
The miner has lost billions of dollars with the operation, located next to the Goro deposit.
Iron ore prices are going ballistic
Iron ore surges 6% to March 2013 high on Friday as Brazil supply worries, a red hot China economy, and a Beijing-Canberra row convulse seaborne trade.
Copper bull run may only be getting started
Goldman Sachs analysts said the current price strength “is not an irrational aberration” but rather “the first leg of a structural bull market in copper.”
Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass closer to production
The Nevada project is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US.
Seabridge grows footprint in BC with Pretivm asset buy
The company has acquired Pretivm's Snowfield project for $105 million.
Barrick, Japan Gold to expand Mizobe-Onoyama project
Japan Gold signed a JV for three mining rights licenses that adjoin the Barrick Alliance Mizobe-Onoyama project.
Glencore taps coal head Gary Nagle as new CEO
Announcement came as the Swiss firm revealed an ambitious plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
