March 24, 2019 Alrosa says Verkhne-Munskoye deposit is more prolific than previously thought During a 5-day experiment, the company extracted 239 diamonds larger than 8 carats.
March 24, 2019 Bosnia’s 300 MW power plant to go offline for 35-day overhaul on Mar. 25 The Stanari coal-fired power plant in Doboj is the first privately-funded power plant in the Western Balkans.
March 22, 2019 30 countries face higher resource nationalism risk — report On the upside, the RNI report shows that 24 nations have seen improvements in their index performance.
March 22, 2019 Bacanora Lithium extends footprint in Germany with new licence The company has secured a second five-year exploration licence in the Erzgebirge (meaning Ore Mountain) region of Saxony, which completely encloses its Zinnwald project.
March 21, 2019 Medgold preps for 2019 drilling, re-interprets prospect at Tlamino The company will drill 5,000 metres at its Tlamino gold project in southern Serbia.
March 21, 2019 Amnesty accuses electric vehicles makers of using unethically sourced minerals The problem, says Amnesty, is that no country legally requires companies to publicly report on their cobalt supply chains.
March 20, 2019 Coal mining comes back to the UK with $218 million project West Cumbria Mining plans to open the country’s first new deep coal mine is a step closer after councillors in the English county of Cumbria unanimously approved the project.
March 20, 2019 Zinc price builds on 2019 rally as stocks reach just 2 days consumption Inventories are down 55% this year and are on course to reach levels last seen in 1990.
March 19, 2019 U.S. sanctions Venezuelan gold company for supporting Maduro This is the sixth round of sanctions since January by the U.S., which is seeking to wrest power and the military’s loyalty away from Maduro.
March 19, 2019 Cyber attack hits operations at aluminum maker Norsk Hydro The company couldn’t detail how much output had been impacted, but said the so-called potlines, which process molten aluminum and need to be kept running 24 hours a day, had…
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