Hatch, Anglo, BHP, and Fortescue form Green Hydrogen consortium Companies are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | March 23, 2020 | 3:26 pm
South Africa orders mines to close in 21-day virus lockdown South Africa’s army will help the police to enforce the lockdown that will start midnight Thursday. Bloomberg News | March 23, 2020 | 1:21 pm
Congo’s key copper, cobalt provinces in two-day lockdown The measure is expected to weigh heavily on copper output. Cecilia Jamasmie | March 23, 2020 | 10:58 am
Pan American pauses Argentina operations The company is also suspending supply deliveries and personnel transport at its San Vicente operations in Bolivia. Bruno Venditti | March 23, 2020 | 10:36 am
Codelco says copper price fall puts projects “at risk” Last week Codelco said it would slow production to a level of "operational continuity" for a period of 15 days. Reuters | March 23, 2020 | 10:36 am
Bacanora’s Sonora project delayed to Q3 The Ganfeng test plant and project team have resumed work on project engineering. MINING.com Editor | March 23, 2020 | 10:04 am
CHART: 40-year cost curve shows copper price rout likely over New report shows of all commodities, the 90th percentile of the cost curve has worked as a support level best in copper. Frik Els | March 23, 2020 | 10:00 am
Germany wants to mass produce large-format lithium-ion cells The ZellkoBatt project was created to build bridges between battery working prototypes and industrial mass manufacturing in domestic factories. Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | March 23, 2020 | 9:50 am
Orocobre suspends operations in Argentina The company says it currently has sufficient stock to meet customer orders until the end of April. MINING.com Editor | March 23, 2020 | 9:37 am