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WA gold companies shine but critical minerals pull index down
WA gold companies shine but critical minerals pull index down
5th August 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Gold-focused Western Australia companies have shone in 2024, with strong prices driving merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, while prices for some critical minerals, including lithium and rare... 


Australian critical mineral explorers, developers and producers face uncertainty - Deloitte
Australian critical mineral explorers, developers and producers face uncertainty - Deloitte
5th August 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The global trade and investment environment for critical minerals is rapidly changing and Australian critical mineral explorers, developers and producers need to understand the implications for... 


Sea-bed regulator elects secretary general as calls grow to pause deep-sea mining
5th August 2024 By: Reuters

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has elected Leticia Carvalho of Brazil as its next secretary general, as pressure mounts for a pause on efforts to mine the sea floor for minerals for use... 


Tanzania launches $3.1bn railway in drive to boost infrastructure
2nd August 2024 By: Reuters

Tanzania on Thursday launched a 541 km modern standard gauge railway running between its administrative and commercial capitals, built by a Turkish firm as part of a government drive to improve... 


Utshalo founder Paul Miller.
Orion’s capital-raising success kindling hopes of greater small-end investment in mining
1st August 2024 By: Martin Creamer

The capital-raising success that emerging copper and zinc mining company Orion Minerals achieved is kindling high hopes that smaller South African shareholders will be facilitated to play a greater... 


Tanzania agrees to $90m settlement in dispute with Indiana Resources
31st July 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Tanzania has agreed to pay $90-million in settlement of an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) dispute with ASX-listed Indiana Resources. The dispute was the subject... 


Glencore CEO Gary Nagle.
Glencore expects to be able to announce coal, carbon steel demerger decision next week
30th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore expects to be able to announce the decision of the board regarding the potential demerger of its coal and carbon steel materials business next... 


Teck's Highland Valley copper operations in Canada
Teck draws M&A attention from big miners in rush for copper
29th July 2024 By: Bloomberg

The world’s biggest miners are back in serious dealmaking mode and Teck Resources is taking center stage. The Canadian miner, which has exited its coal business with a sale this month to Glencore,... 


Vale says Q2 net profit triples, iron-ore sales up
Vale says Q2 net profit triples, iron-ore sales up
26th July 2024 By: Reuters

Brazilian miner Vale, one of the world's largest iron-ore producers, said on Thursday its second-quarter net profit soared to $2.77-billion, triple the year-earlier period and above analyst... 


Eramet's SLN subsidiary in New Caledonia
Eramet lifts profit outlook on manganese rally, says nickel market tough
26th July 2024 By: Reuters

Eramet raised its outlook for full-year core earnings on Thursday due to a jump in manganese prices, though the French miner expected the nickel market to remain tough after it contributed to a... 


Anglo American CE Duncan Wanblad.
Anglo's eyes are firmly on a copper, iron-ore and crop nutrient prize
25th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

By the end of 2025, the new Anglo American is going to be focused 100% on copper, iron-ore and crop nutrient mining. By that time, the demerged Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Anglo American... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
Minerals Council South Africa supports beneficiation where the economics make sense
24th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Minerals Council South Africa, whose members account for 90% of this country's annual mineral production by value, supports beneficiation where the economics make sense. “Therefore, we welcome the... 


mining truck underground
Production now under way at FQM’s Enterpise nickel mine in Zambia
24th July 2024 By: Darren Parker

TSX-listed First Quantum Minerals (FQM) has declared commercial production, as of June 1, at the Enterprise nickel mine, which is 12 km from the company’s Sentinel copper mine in the North-Western... 


Shaun Usmar
Usmar appointed Vale Base Metals CEO
23rd July 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Shaun Usmar, an international mining executive with more than 30 years’ experience, has been appointed CEO of Vale Base Metals (VBM). Usmar, a past Barrick Gold CFO and former Xstrata executive,... 


Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals
Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals
22nd July 2024 By: Reuters

The only US cobalt mine sits fallow in the northern Idaho woods, a mothballed hunk of steel and dirt that is too expensive for its owner to operate because Chinese rivals have flooded global... 


Kingrose says exploration under BHP alliance in full swing
Kingrose says exploration under BHP alliance in full swing
19th July 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Exploration activities under Kingrose Mining’s alliance agreements with BHP in Norway and Finland are in full swing, says Kingrose MD Fabian Baker. These programmes have been designed with the... 


Nornickel weighs projects in new top market China
Nornickel weighs projects in new top market China
19th July 2024 By: Bloomberg

Russia’s biggest miner MMC Norilsk Nickel is weighing several new projects in copper, nickel and palladium in China as sanctions make cross-border payments and shipments increasingly difficult.... 


Duncan Wanblad shaking hands with Wits University vice-chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilakazi at the hand over of Anglo’s 47 Main street, Johannesburg building, to Wits Business School (WBS), with Anglo chairperson Nolitha Fakude (left) and  WBS head Prof Maurice Radebe (right).
We’ve delivered strong second-quarter production – Anglo CE
18th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Diversified mining company Anglo American on Thursday emphasised its embedding of operational resourcefulness across its asset base and highlighted its second-quarter performance as being strong.... 


Anglo American Platinum CE Craig Miller
Anglo Platinum anticipating 15% to 25% lower half-year earnings
18th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

The basic earnings and earnings per share of platinum group metals (PGM) mining company Anglo American Platinum for the first six months of this year are anticipated to be between 15% and 25% lower... 


Vale sees iron-ore output at high-end of 2024 guidance after Q2 rise
Vale sees iron-ore output at high-end of 2024 guidance after Q2 rise
17th July 2024 By: Reuters

Brazilian miner Vale expressed confidence on Tuesday that it would reach the high-end of its 2024 guidance for iron ore production after output increased in the second-quarter. The company, one of... 


QPM receives state govt grant for TECH project
15th July 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Queensland government has granted Queensland Pacific Metals an A$8-million grant to advance its Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) project towards investment readiness Queensland has... 


Western Mines secures A$6m at-call facility for nickel project
15th July 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Minerals exploration and development company Western Mines has secured a new funding facility to advance drilling at the Mulga Tank nickel/copper/cobalt/platinum group elements project in Western... 


Nornickel to restart furnace at key smelter in early August
12th July 2024 By: Reuters

ussian metals producer Nornickel will re-launch one of the two furnaces at its flagship Nadezhda Smelter in early August after major repairs that affected production plans, a company spokesman... 


Platinum Group Metals CEO Frank Hallam.
Platinum mine developer working with govt on export of concentrate to Saudi Arabia
12th July 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Toronto- and New York-listed Platinum Group Metals, the near-term objectives of which are to advance the Waterberg project in Limpopo to a development and construction decision, is working with the... 


CreditSights views BHP nickel suspension as positive in depressed market
CreditSights views BHP nickel suspension as positive in depressed market
12th July 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Analysts at CreditSights have identified BHP's decision to suspend its Western Australian Nickel operations, including Nickel West and the West Musgrave project starting in October, as a beneficial... 


Lynas' Kalgoorlie plant processes rare earth concentrate into a carbonate.
Supply concerns for Lynas as BHP Nickel West operations halt
12th July 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Rare earths producer Lynas is addressing potential supply disruptions at its Kalgoorlie facility following BHP’s decision to suspend operations at its Western Australia nickel facilities starting... 


An image of EY Africa energy and natural resources leader Wickus Botha
Region poised to benefit from energy transition
12th July 2024 By: Nadine Ramdass

Southern and Central African countries have a significant opportunity to benefit from the anticipated high demand for energy-transition minerals, such as those used for renewable-energy systems,... 


Operations will be suspended in October
Global oversupply forces BHP to suspend Australia nickel production
11th July 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Commodities major BHP on Thursday announced the suspension of production at its Western Australian nickel operations, citing a global oversupply in the nickel market. The decision follows a review... 


Exploration resumes at Mulga Tank following weather break
Exploration resumes at Mulga Tank following weather break
9th July 2024 By: Mariaan Webb

Following a weather extended break, the Western Mines Group’s (WMG's) exploration team is back on site at Mulga Tank, in Western Australia, to further drilling. The company has a combination of... 


LME CEO Matthew Chamberlain
Hedge fund Elliott challenges court verdict it lost against LME on nickel
9th July 2024 By: Reuters

US-based hedge fund Elliott Associates on Tuesday urged a London court to overturn a verdict supporting the London Metal Exchange's (LME) cancellation of nickel trades partly because the exchange... 


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