Europe

RUSAL opened the first phase of the world’s most advanced low-carbon aluminum production plant, Taishet Aluminium Smelter (TaAZ), in Taishet, Siberia, further demonstrating RUSAL’s commitment to decarbonization of its operations...

Uranium Energy Corp. has completed the transactions with Uranium One Investments Inc., a subsidiary of Uranium One Inc., and has acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Uranium One Americas Inc. for a total purchase...

Boliden has signed an agreement with Metso Outotec regarding the expansion investment in the Odda zinc smelter in Norway. The agreement includes, among other things, a roasting plant, sulfuric acid plant, leaching technology and...

The Ukrainian government rolled out a privatization plan for the United Mining and Chemical Co. (UMCC), which is slated to be auctioned out on August 31 with a starting price of UAH3.7 billion ($135 million). UMCC mines 500,000...

Russian Copper Co. (RPC) is set to invest 248 billion rubles ($3.3 billion) in the Malmyzh gold-copper plant in the Far East, targeting to make the mine operational in 2023, Igor Altushkin, RPC vice president, said during a...

By Vladislav Vorotnikov White Gold, a joint venture of the Russian state corporation Rostec and Seligdar, polymetallic holding, has won the competitive bidding procedure to develop Kyuchys gold deposit in the Sakha Republic,...

Nornickel is carrying out the first phase of a major program to clean up industrial and construction waste in the world’s northernmost city of Norilsk. The company is investing a total of RUB 40 billion ($546.2 million) over 10...

By Vladislav Vorotnikov Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on August 6 that Russia would raise a mineral extraction tax (MEP) on metals producers in 2022. The new rates are expected to replace an increased export duty on...

Eldorado Gold Corp. announced that Greek Ministry of Energy and Environment has approved a modification to the Kassandra Mines Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to allow for the use of dry stack tailings disposal at the...

Russia’s deputy prime minister, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev, with Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic Aleksei Chekunkov, Trans-Baikal...