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UK-South African mining firm Anglo American has approved the $266mn Aquila project that will extend the life of its Grasstree underground coking coal mine in Queensland, Australia by six years to 2028.
News ID: 5492    Publish Date : 2019/07/25

Nicaragua-focused Condor Gold (LON:CNR) has obtained an extension to meet conditions associated with the environmental permit to build and operate its flagship La India open pit gold mine, in the western side of the country.
News ID: 5429    Publish Date : 2019/07/23

The Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization is pursuing plans to expand mineral explorations to cover 300,000 square kilometers by the end of the second term of President Hassan Rouhani (August 2021), says deputy minister of industries, mining and trade.
News ID: 5416    Publish Date : 2019/07/23

European Metals Holdings could begin operations at its Cinovec lithium project in the Czech Republic by mid-2022, and is holding preliminary discussions with potential customers, it said on Monday.
News ID: 5412    Publish Date : 2019/07/22

Geoscience BC has set up to start a project aimed at analyzing the possibility of extracting rare earth elements from British Columbia’s coal deposits and coal tailings facilities.
News ID: 5373    Publish Date : 2019/07/22

Mineral Resources’ BB/Stable rating is unlikely to be affected by delays in the commissioning of the new features of its Wodgina lithium operation.
News ID: 5371    Publish Date : 2019/07/22

Mongolian legislators will vote next month whether to rewrite a 2015 investment agreement with mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO) for the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, located in the Gobi Desert.
News ID: 5343    Publish Date : 2019/07/20

Indonesia is reportedly planning to spend billions of dollars in building aluminium and nickel smelters and reshaping its mining industry, in a bid to cut decades-long dependence on costly imports to meet domestic demand. Report says the Southeast Asian country is seeking to make building smelters mandatory for the miners.
News ID: 5304    Publish Date : 2019/07/19

Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 207,788 tons of ores during the first three Iranian months (March 21-June 21), which indicates a 46% fall in production compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization’s latest report shows.
News ID: 5270    Publish Date : 2019/07/17

West Africa-focused Avesoro Resources (TSX, LON: ASO) continues to transition from mining operator to contractor after concluding an agreement for Youga open pit gold mine in Burkina Faso, which could ease project funding pressure on the company.
News ID: 5227    Publish Date : 2019/07/16

In the first quarter of 2019, the global gold market continued to recover from the two-year lowest average price point of $1,213/ozt recorded in Q3 2018, rebounding to $1,304/ozt in Q1 2019, the second consecutive quarter of growth.
News ID: 5226    Publish Date : 2019/07/16

According to a recent report, Ghana Bauxite Company Limited workers at Awaso are set to resume work following a successful renegotiation with the nine-member committee. The committee was set up to ensure the re-engagement of the workers.
News ID: 5220    Publish Date : 2019/07/16

Perth-based graphite developer Bass Metals expects to increase its graphite sales by around 30pc in the September quarter, after they rose by 94pc in the June quarter.
News ID: 5199    Publish Date : 2019/07/15

Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, became on Friday the first British miner to launch a crowdfunding campaign to finance its hunt for the commodity in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England.
News ID: 5148    Publish Date : 2019/07/13

NMDC iron ore production for the quarter witnessed at 8.46 MnT, up by 23% Y-o-Y, SteelMint learned from sources. However production is down by 20% as against 10.6 MnT in Q4 FY19.
News ID: 5124    Publish Date : 2019/07/11

The following is an edited excerpt of Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC; US-OTC: LUCRF) president and CEO Eira Thomas interviewed by Dean MacPherson, head of business development for global mining at TMX Group, at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., on May 22, 2019.
News ID: 5091    Publish Date : 2019/07/09

Moody’s forecast for the global base metals industry is stable, while it predicts performance to weaken over the next year and a half, Mining Weekly reported Monday.
News ID: 5003    Publish Date : 2019/07/02

As the mining sector strives to secure safety improvements, productivity gains and other benefits offered by a fully autonomous mine, a new report, Accessing the Fast and Furious Pace of Autonomy to Transform Mining by Clareo and Twin argues the closed and proprietary systems of the major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are a barrier.
News ID: 4881    Publish Date : 2019/06/23

Shares in Ecuador-focused SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) jumped on Friday, after it announced that the country’s Constitutional Court had rejected calls for a referendum on mining in Imbabura, the province in which the company’s flagship Cascabel copper-gold project is located.
News ID: 4880    Publish Date : 2019/06/23

Major Iranian lead and zinc producers extracted 129,172 tons of ores during the first two Iranian months (March 21-May 21), which indicate a 50% fall in production compared with last year’s corresponding period, the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization’s latest report shows.
News ID: 4845    Publish Date : 2019/06/19