March 29, 2021 Nornickel stops water inflows at two Arctic mines The Oktyabrsky and Taymirskiy mines account for 36% of ore mined by the company in Russia.
March 26, 2021 Alrosa fetches $23.9m in three diamond auctions The world’s top diamond miner by output held three “special-size diamonds” auctions to celebrate its Jubilee Auction #100.
March 26, 2021 Kaz Minerals bidders up takeover bid to $5.5 billion Nova Resources has raised its offer for the miner by 9%, after minority shareholders said they would reject earlier proposals for being too low.
March 17, 2021 China backing autocratic regimes to secure resources — report Autocratic regimes represent for Beijing greater supply stability than democracies that are, or may become, hostile to China, Verisk Maplecroft says.
March 7, 2021 Nornickel to provide $2bn for Norilsk’s development Industrial waste clean-up is among the priorities set up in a deal signed between the miner and federal government and regional authorities.
March 4, 2021 Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners Resource nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, but Verisk Maplecroft believes the worst is yet to come for miners as governments try to claw back the…
February 28, 2021 Tycoon Usmanov’s firms to build plant for greener iron products USM and Metalloinvest Holding Co.’s iron ore mine plan to make 2 million tons of hot-briquetted iron per year.
February 21, 2021 Three people die in partial collapse of Nornickel’s Arctic processing plant The plant located in Arctic Siberia partially collapsed during maintenance.
February 16, 2021 Adding copper salts to coal may increase combustion efficiency – study Russian researchers found that adding copper salts to coal reduces the content of unburnt carbon in ash residue by 3.1 times and CO content by 40%.
February 15, 2021 ALROSA sells $10m at year’s first diamond auction in Dubai Demand for our rough began to recover late last year and now remains stable, the miner said.
Codelco, SQM seal lithium venture in Chile’s Atacama desert NovaAndino Litio, the venture, will control all lithium exploration, production and sales in the Atacama salar until 2060. December 27, 2025 | 09:38 am
