April 5, 2021

Barrick ready to sign deal to reopen Porgera mine

Papua New Guinea's prime minister has announced an imminent agreement to bring the mine back into operations.

April 3, 2021

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Top iron ore producer forecasts 50% fall in price; Vital Metals to become Canada’s first rare earths miner; Vale sells New Caledonia nickel assets to Trafigura

April 1, 2021

Rio Tinto’s next chair must navigate between China and Australia

Whoever replaces Simon Thompson as chairperson of Rio Tinto Group will face a raft of complex and problematic global issues.

April 1, 2021

Australian court orders Tianqi Lithium to pay $29m to court fund

Company had refused to pay Perth-based MSP Engineering for building a lithium hydroxide plant, saying the project ran over budget.

April 1, 2021

DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining

Supporting a deep-sea mining moratorium is backing the environmental and social ills that come from land extraction, the company says.

March 31, 2021

Ok Tedi resumes operations after covid-19 shutdown

Ramp-up to full production is expected to take up to two weeks.

March 31, 2021

Vale sells New Caledonia nickel assets to Trafigura

Vale said it will have a supply contract with the Trafigura-led consortium to off-take part of the nickel produced there.

March 30, 2021

Resource-rich Australia shows vagaries of any commodity supercycle: Russell

For those seeking evidence of a new commodity supercycle, and for the sceptics of a sustained boom in natural resources, Australia’s government forecaster has it covered.

March 30, 2021

Turquoise Hill’s Oyu Tolgoi declares force majeure on some Chinese contracts

Open pit mining continues to operate uninterrupted at Oyu Tolgoi.

March 29, 2021

Rio Tinto faces backlash over former CEO’s exit package

Company is bracing for an investor revolt after handing $9.9 million to its former CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques, who was ousted over the destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves.