Vale Pushes For Nickel Turnaround
At a wide-ranging investor day in New York this week, Vale announced a nickel exploration joint venture with Glencore, flagged a limited Samarco restart in 2020 and said it was ...
Bolivia’s Almost Impossible Lithium Dream
A small army of workers from cities and villages across Bolivia boards the buses for the last leg of a commute that can last days. The meandering, bumpy dirt roads ...
Skills Shortage Drives Up Wages
In the midst of mining skills shortage, the rate of employees who received a pay rise in the last year has jumped, according to Mining People International.
The number of ...
Infinity Lithium Reveal "Outstanding Results" Of Lithium Hydroxide Scoping Study At San Jose
Infinity Lithium has announced the completion of the San Jose Lithium Project Scoping Study which has highlighted the ability to produce battery grade lithium hydroxide through the delivery of a ...
Boreal Completes Drill Campaign At Norway Copper-Gold Project
North Vancouver/Stockholm-based Boreal Metals (TSXV:BMX) announced today it has completed seven diamond drill holes totalling 951 metres of exploratory diamond drill program at its Burfjord copper-gold project in ...
A Climate Summit In The Heart Of Coal Country
As government officials, scientists, and green activists gather for the United Nations climate conference in Poland, Adam Pietron has a few words of advice: Try to avoid the air. Pietron ...
WA Takes Lion's Share Of Mineral Exploration Spend
Western Australia is home to more than 60 per cent of the nation's minerals and petroleum exploration.
ABS figures released on Monday revealed Australian mineral exploration expenditure rose 2 ...
Nautilus Setting JV To Secure Support Vessels For Solwara 1 Project
Shares in Canada’s Nautilus Minerals (TSX:NUS), one of the world's first seafloor miners, climbed more than 10% on Monday as the company disclosed is negotiating the terms ...
Excelsior Mining Closes US$75 Million Project Financing Package
Excelsior Mining Corp. (Excelsior) has closed a US$75 million project financing package (collectively, the financing). The financing has been provided by Triple Flag Mining Finance Bermuda Ltd. (Triple Flag ...
BELAZ 90 T Mining Truck Of 90MT Powered By Chinese Weichai Engine
On 18 November, a delegation from Chinese engine major Weichai Group headed by Chairman of the Board Tan Xuguang visited mining truck major BELAZ in Zhodino, Belarus. The visit also ...
Rio Tinto Ships First Bauxite From Amrun
Rio Tinto has loaded its first shipment of bauxite from the Amrun project in Queensland six weeks ahead of schedule.
Over 80,000 tonnes of bauxite was loaded onto the ...
Codelco Strikes Contract Deal With Workers At Ministro Hales Mine
Chile's State copper miner Codelco said on Saturday it had reached agreement on a new collective labor contract with the union of workers at its Ministro Hales mine in ...
Clive Palmer Ads Attack Mark McGowan For Sino Iron Intervention
Clive Palmer has ratcheted up a dispute with Mark McGowan over the Sino Iron project, accusing the Premier of siding with Chinese “mega companies” and breaching Federal law.
In full ...
Jump On U.S.-China Trade Truce
London and Shanghai industrial metals jumped on Monday after U.S. and Chinese leaders agreed to a ceasefire in a trade dispute that has shaken global markets.
China and the ...
China Has A Secret Weapon In The Race To Dominate Electric Cars
Over the past two years, cobalt has emerged as one of the hottest commodities of the electric-vehicle revolution. The silvery-blue metal, an important component in lithium-ion batteries, has more than ...
Mining Women In South Australia's Iron Ore Heartland See Boost To Their Ranks
Women are scarce on the ground at South Middleback Ranges (SMR) in the heartland of South Australia's iron ore mining country, but the latest intake of employees has boosted ...
Mining Boom Set To Test Perth Airport Again
Chaos is the only way to describe Perth Airport in 2012 at the height of the last resources construction boom.
Delays of more than an hour were common and up ...
Indonesian Contractor Builds Logistics Business On Volvo EC200D Efficiency
PT Escorindo Jasa Prima bought its first Volvo EC200D excavator to support operations for one of its customers. The machine proved so successful that the company has since ordered four ...
Rare Earth Mineral Discovery Set To Make Australia A Major Player In Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Supplies of a rare metal critical to building electric cars, smartphones and modern wind turbines will be boosted, after researchers identified a way to find new reserves of the mineral ...
Lithium Markets To Be Oversupplied Despite EV Growth – Moody’s
The lithium market is expected to be in oversupply in the early 2020s, despite rapid demand growth from the electric vehicle (EV) battery industry, a new report by Moody’s ...
Gold, Silver And Iron Slowly Created During The Big Bang
Researchers with the University of Western Australia ran some calculations and determined that, although violent, the Big Bang slowly created base and precious metals.
According to professors Snezhana Abarzhi and ...
Goldcorp Pours First Doré From Pyrite Leach At Penasquito
Vancouver-based Goldcorp has poured the first gold at its Penasquito’s Pyrite Leach project (PLP) in Zacatecas. Commissioning of the plant began in Q3 2018, and it is now treating ...
Ore Grade Gamble Pays Off For Fortescue Metals Group
Fortescue, famous as the Pilbara’s low-grade iron ore producer that slashed costs to survive when prices plunged, now sees itself as the innovative, nimble player responsive to a changing ...
Clive Palmer Questions WA Government Over CITIC Dispute
A disagreement has emerged between the Western Australian Government and Clive Palmer over the dispute between the mining magnate’s company, Mineralogy, and China’s CITIC Pacific.
State Premier Mark ...
The Lithium Price Bulls Were Right
The piece highlights a slide from an Orocobre deck showing just how large the gap is between expectations of new supply and the reality of bringing lithium projects into production ...