December 31, 2020

MINING.COM’s most popular stories of 2020

Even setting aside the disruptions and uncertainty created by the pandemic, 2020 was a tumultuous year on mining and metals markets.

December 31, 2020

Billionaire Friedland’s SPAC readies funds for clean-power push

Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp. is raising $200 million to invest in industries key to the global energy transition.

December 31, 2020

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

First gold poured at Canada’s newest gold mine; Turkish farmers eye $3 billion profit from gold find; Iron ore outperformed all commodities in 2020

December 30, 2020

Exploring for pegmatite-bound commodities without drilling, blasting

Project Greenpeg wants to stimulate investors to explore Europe for clean energy metals and minerals.

December 28, 2020

Metso Outotec sells aluminum business

The Finnish company reached a deal with France’s REEL International.

December 27, 2020

Spanish cities oppose exploration at Emerita project

Paymogo and Puebla de Guzmán said that exploration is forbidden in La Romanera, part of the company’s Iberian Belt West polymetallic project.

December 24, 2020

Gold steadies as traders assess US stimulus, Brexit deals

Gold is on course for its biggest annual gain in a decade.

December 24, 2020

Nornickel shutters dirty copper smelter in push to go greener

The facility in Nickel on the Kola Peninsula near the Norwegian and Finnish borders was partly why Norway’s sovereign wealth fund blacklisted the miner a decade ago.

December 23, 2020

Infinity granted key permit for Spanish lithium project

The Australian company received an investigation permit for an area known as Ampliación a Valdeflorez.

December 23, 2020

Turkish farmers eye $3 billion profit jackpot from gold find

Earnings from a recent gold discovery would be more than five times the annual sales of fertilizer producer Gubretas.