May 18, 2020 Coronavirus bails out coal, oil patch Hundreds of millions of dollars are likely to end up in the pockets of oil and coal investors.
May 18, 2020 Sierra Leone detains five expatriate managers at iron ore mine The arrests come amid the SL Mining’s legal battle with the government.
May 18, 2020 Hochschild to restart operations at Peru mines The company recently restarted operations at its San Jose mine in Argentina.
May 18, 2020 Russian army sets up mobile hospital at Olimpiada mine Initial tests showed 866 positive cases among employees of the Polyus Krasnoyarsk unit as of Monday.
May 18, 2020 Freeport cuts workforce at Grasberg as coronavirus cases in area rise Company did not say how many workers at the mine, which normally employs about 25,000 people, would be kept on to run the operation.
May 17, 2020 South Africa’s Impala closes platinum mine due to coronavirus cases Implats identified 19 positive cases of covid-19 during the week, all of them asymptomatic.
May 17, 2020 Mexican miner Peñoles to suspend zinc mine due to tough conditions, low prices Peñoles said in a statement that it has begun laying off unionized workers in the unit.
May 17, 2020 China’s Chifeng Jilong restarts gold production at Laos mine after 6 yrs The restart of gold production at the mine comes after gold prices hit a seven-year high last month.
May 15, 2020 Eskom considers delaying closure of three coal-fired plants The company, which produces almost all of South Africa’s power, wants to push back the closure of the Grootvlei, Camden and Hendrina power plants.
May 15, 2020 INTERVIEW: Aaron Puna CEO, Anglo American Chile Anglo American has interests in two of the world’s largest copper mines, Los Bronces and Collahuasi.
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