April 23, 2018 Australia’s Fortescue iron ore shipments, price fall in Q3 The iron ore producer reported a 2 percent fall in third-quarter iron ore shipments on reduced demand in China.
April 23, 2018 Newcrest plan to dump tailings in old Cadia open pit approved The use of the pit as a tailing storage facility means the miner will sacrifice remaining gold and copper reserves to help it return to full production after a dam…
April 20, 2018 Canadian miner eyes New Zealand’s gold Full Metal Minerals wants to buy the Puhipuhi Gold Project.
April 20, 2018 How gold is improving cancer treatment Gold particles are helping researchers track the diversity of individual cancer cells circulating in the body.
April 19, 2018 Canada’s Copper Mountain grabs Altona Mining in $72-million deal Merger creates a mid-sized copper miner, with an expected annual production of about 73,000 tonnes of the metal.
April 19, 2018 Australia’s South32 sees brighter manganese outlook, shares soar The Perth-based miner plans to raise its Australian manganese production by 6 percent to 3.3 million wet metric tonnes.
April 19, 2018 Australia’s Pilbara Minerals to ship first spodumene cargo to China in Aug Spodumene is a mineral mined as a source of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, for which China is the world's biggest market.
April 18, 2018 BHP to produce nickel sulphate next year, eyeing cobalt on battery boom It expects to have sold 90% of its nickel sulphate supply by the end of 2019, two years earlier than anticipated.
April 17, 2018 Australian miner reports maiden potash resource in Germany Davenport Resources reported a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant resource of 576.6-million tonnes at 12.1% potassium oxide at its Ebeleben mining licence.
April 17, 2018 Rio Tinto first-quarter shipments rise 4.7 pct The Anglo-Australian miner maintained its guidance for this year of 330 million to 340 million tonnes.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
