MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week
Barrick CEO faces stark test; Definitive feasibility study for Kakula confirms giant mine; Freeport’s Grasberg go-go days back.
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Eight mines the size of Glencore’s Katanga needed to meet battery metals demand – report
Wood Mackenzie states that the cobalt market would have to double and 800 kt LCE of additional lithium would be needed by 2025 to limit global warming by 2.5 degrees.
Greatland, Newcrest to deliver initial resource at Havieron in Q4 2020
Newcrest’s ongoing drilling campaign at the Havieron deposit identified a new breccia zone open at depth and which continues to expand with further drilling.
Rio Tinto heads roll over sacred Aboriginal site destruction
CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques, iron ore boss Chris Salisbury, and corporate affairs head Simone Niven will have to step down.
Freeport’s Grasberg go-go days back as gold, copper prices rally
Freeport's iconic open cut mine in Indonesia is going underground – nearly doubling copper and gold production and earning $8 billion per year in the process.
Carbon emission curves for iron ore, copper, met coal and nickel
Skarn has also created mine-by-mine carbon intensity curves for gold, silver and cobalt, to be published over the coming weeks.
NASA seeks to set law for space mining
The agency is soliciting bids from explorers who are willing to finance their own trips to the moon and collect soil or rock samples without actually returning the material to earth.
Group Eleven begins drilling at Ireland zinc project
The company is also nearing plans for follow-up drilling at the PG West project.
OceanaGold extends mine life, boosts reserves at Macraes
Life of the Macraes operation now extends to 2028, with 240,000 ounces of reserves added.