By Gavin du Venage West Africa is fast becoming the global hotspot for exploration, as the last frontier for new mineral deposits of dazzling richness. This is the view of the Junior Exploration Indaba, a Johannesburg-based...
Read MoreBaru Gold Corp. is hiring mining contractors and has commenced the sourcing of heap-leach operational equipment for its Sangihe gold-silver project in Indonesia. “Baru Gold continues to move toward commencement of production and...
Read MoreGlencore and GEM have extended their partnership for the supply of cobalt hydroxide by another five years and have formally embedded responsible sourcing and sustainability into the contractual relationship. Under the terms of...
Read MoreBy Ajoy K. Das India has started laying down a roadmap to make a maiden foray into potash mining, marking a small step in reducing its 100% import dependency on this critical fertilizer mineral. Strangely, the desert state of...
Read MoreIn September, Zijin Mining convened its Sixth Science and Technology Symposium where Chairman Chen Jinghe highlighted the company’s global development over the past 20 years with scientific and technological innovation as a...
Read MoreBy Vladislav Vorotnikov By 2030, Russia plans to ramp up rare earth minerals production nearly tenfold, not only to meet the domestic demand but also to become the world’s second-biggest rare earth minerals exporter, the Russian...
Read MoreDespite challenges posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Turquoise Hill’s Oyu Tolgoi open pit has continued to operate uninterrupted and produced 36,495 metric tons (mt) of copper and 31,150 ounces (oz) of gold in the...
Read MoreBy Ajoy K. Das India’s Ministry of Mines has commenced the process of framing a National Mineral Index (NMI) of various minerals, but the mining industry has opposed some of the benchmarks being considered in evolving such an...
Read MoreAuthorities in China have approved the merger of Yankuang Group Co. Ltd. with Shandong Energy Group Co. The merger was announced back in July when the two companies were jointly restructured into the new Shandong Energy Co. The...
Read MoreSteppe Gold has started production and initiated gold and silver sales from its ATO open-pit, heap-leach mine in eastern Mongolia. As of mid-May, the company had sold 5,233 ounces (oz) of gold and 1,372 oz of silver in two...
Read MoreBy Ajoy K. Das With the COVID-19 pandemic bringing the Indian mining industry to a grinding halt, miners across the country have sought a bailout package for survival of the industry. “The spread of COVID-19 has created an...
Read MoreJSC National Atomic Co. Kazatomprom is reducing operational activities across all of its uranium mines for an expected period of three months due to the risks posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to...
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