December 13, 2021

Rio Tinto to write off $2.4bn Oyu Tolgoi loan to Mongolia

Writing off Mongolia's debt would speed up the timeline for when the country can start receiving dividends from the project.

December 12, 2021

Sri Lanka shows off giant natural blue sapphire

Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire.

December 10, 2021

UAE’s EGA inks 3-yr Guinea bauxite supply deal with China’s Bosai

China's demand for imported bauxite is set to increase by around 20% to 132 million tonnes in 2022.

December 9, 2021

Tsingshan starts producing EV battery raw material nickel matte in Indonesia

In the past two weeks, two other Chinese companies have both announced plans to produce 40,000 tonnes per year of matte in Indonesia.

December 8, 2021

Gold demand in India seen best in a decade in festival quarter

India consumed 446.4 tons of gold in 2020 and purchases were about 360 tons in the first nine months of this year, WGC data shows.

December 7, 2021

AIA sells out of almost $10 billion of coal investments

The insurer completed the entire sale of directly-managed equity and fixed income portfolios in October, seven years ahead of its original target.

December 7, 2021

RANKED: World’s 10 biggest underground mines by tonnes of ore milled

The ore that contains sufficient valuable mineral to be treated by milling process is what ends up going into the processing plant compared to run of mine ore production.

December 7, 2021

Erdene gains key environment nod, begins early work at Bayan Khundii in Mongolia

A formal construction decision is expected in early 2022.

December 7, 2021

Researchers develop covid-killing stainless steel

The newly-developed alloy can inactivate 99.75% of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within three hours and 99.99% within six hours.

December 2, 2021

China’s Chengtun to invest $245m in Indonesian nickel matte project

The venture, known as PT ChengMach Nickel, will produce 40,000 tonnes per year of nickel matte.