BHP, the world’s largest mining company, urged peers to create an independent international body in charge of overseeing the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which storage mining waste, following the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years.
News ID: 3674 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
Brazil ian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) issued a statement on Saturday saying that it had ordered the evacuation of some 200 people residing or working in 49 buildings that are located near its Mar Azul mine, in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais.
News ID: 3658 Publish Date : 2019/02/17
Kinross Gold's (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) shares were up 6.25% on Friday, after reporting Q4 results this week. The company produced 2.45 million gold-equivalent ounces last year, with record production from its Paracatu mine in Brazil and its Bald Mountain mine in Nevada, and forecasts company-wide production this year will be similar to 2018.
News ID: 3649 Publish Date : 2019/02/16
Iron ore mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) issued a statement Friday advising that there was a fire in one of the transfer houses of the belt conveyor system at its distribution center in Malaysia.
News ID: 3648 Publish Date : 2019/02/16
Eight employees of the Brazil ian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) were arrested on Friday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the deadly dam disaster in the town of Brumadinho, which killed at least 166 with over a hundred still missing.
News ID: 3627 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
About 700 people were evacuated on Friday from two different towns in the Brazil ian state of Minas Gerais where a dam collapse last month killed at least 157 people, with nearly 200 still missing and feared dead.
News ID: 3595 Publish Date : 2019/02/08
Iron ore prices reached an almost two-year high on Tuesday, following January’s fatal tailings dam breach in Brazil at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mine. Iron ore was at $86.65/dry ton on Feb. 4, up 14% since the dam breach and the highest since March 2017, according to S&P Global Platts.
News ID: 3594 Publish Date : 2019/02/07
Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its subsidiary Shell Brasil Petroleo Ltda. and consortium partners have announced the start of production at the Lula North deepwater project in the Brazil ian Santos Basin.
News ID: 3541 Publish Date : 2019/02/04
Top iron ore producer Vale’s decision to decommission its upstream tailings dams following the deadly dam burst Friday at its facility in Córrego do Feijão, Brazil has lit a fire under iron ore prices.
News ID: 3500 Publish Date : 2019/01/30
The Brazil ian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) has launched a probe into mining giant Vale SA's filings related to the mining dam collapse in the town of Brumadinho, where the collapse of a dam at the company’s Córrego do Feijão mining complex on Friday killed at least 60, while more than 300 missing people are feared dead.
News ID: 3470 Publish Date : 2019/01/29
Orinoco Gold (ASX: OGX) announced that it has just started working with AngloGold Ashanti (JSE:ANG) (NYSE:AU) on establishing an in-country joint venture entity in Brazil , an undertaking that should be completed on the first quarter of 2019.
News ID: 3387 Publish Date : 2019/01/24
Global miner Anglo American (LON:AAL) ended 2018 on a high note, posting Thursday strong fourth quarter production results despite setbacks at its iron ore operations in both South Africa and Brazil .
News ID: 3383 Publish Date : 2019/01/24
A retired Brazil ian Army officer who recently advised Canadian miner Belo Sun (TSX: BSX) about its plans to mine gold in the Amazon, will head the country’s Indigenous Rights Agency (Funai) aiming at using his experience in the sector to deal with hundreds of impending clashes between miners and locals.
News ID: 3314 Publish Date : 2019/01/18
Canadian junior Equinox Gold (TSX-V: EQX) is in the countdown to begin commercial production at its Aurizona gold mine in Brazil , bringing the company closer to its goal of becoming a leading mid-tier producer of the yellow metal.
News ID: 3218 Publish Date : 2019/01/10
Global miner Anglo American (LON:AAL) announced Thursday changes at the top that will see Ruben Fernandes, chief executive officer of the company in Brazil , being replaced by mining veteran Wilfred (Bill) Bruijn, effective March 1.
News ID: 3155 Publish Date : 2019/01/04
Brazil 's state-controlled Petrobras has boosted upstream capital expenditure (capex) in its $84.1bn investment plan for 2019-23, although the production target for the end of the five-year period remains flat.
News ID: 2846 Publish Date : 2018/12/08
Brazil 's Vale, the world's top iron ore producer, is expecting major improvement in the performance of its base metals division in 2020 but said that production cuts would remain in effect this year and next while prices remain low, executives said on Thursday.
News ID: 2454 Publish Date : 2018/10/26
Metso has signed a significant service agreement including refurbishment services for screening equipment used in mining applications, related spare parts and support.
News ID: 2030 Publish Date : 2018/03/22
Iran and Brazil underlined the necessity of improving banking relations to boost bilateral trade and investments.
News ID: 1294 Publish Date : 2017/09/13
A Brazil ian court blocked Wednesday a controversial decree by President Michel Temer that would have opened up a vast national reserve in the Amazon, larger than the size of Switzerland, to mining.
News ID: 1239 Publish Date : 2017/08/30