BELGRADE, March 12 (Reuters) - China's Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. has expressed interest in buying loss-making Serbian copper miner and smelter RTB Bor, which the Balkan state has been trying to sell for the past decade.President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday met representatives of the Chinese firm, who expressed an intention to invest several hundred million dollars in the business, his office said...Read More
The US mining industry is asking the Supreme Court to revoke an Obama-era rule banning the mining of uranium on public lands nearby the Grand Canyon.The National Mining Association (NMA) and the American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA) filed petitions on Friday asking the court to reverse the 2012 ban implemented by the previous administration as uranium prices soared and a flurry of n...Read More
There's a strange thing about the fear going through the global mining industry after the Democratic Republic of Congo signed an order to lift royalties last week: Compared with most other countries, these levies are still relatively low.The existing 2 percent rate on copper extraction compares with royalties five times that level in Chile and Peru, the two biggest producers.Even at the new 3.5...Read More
The small contrarian gold-mining sector remains deeply out of favor, universally ignored. Thus the gold stocks are largely drifting listlessly, totally devoid of excitement. But that's the best time to buy low, when few others care. The gold stocks continue to form strong technical bases, paving the way for massive mean-reversion uplegs. And they remain exceedingly cheap relative to gold prices,...Read More
The Indonesian government is forcing Freeport to sell up after years of back and forth about in-country beneficiation, although the US company will likely stay operator of the mine as it moves to a block cave model. Read More
The Antofagasta action, the first time miners would have gone on strike in the over 17 years it has been operating, is likely to lead to tighter supply and higher prices.Read More
Good infrastructure, an easy-to-follow permitting regime, responsive government regulator and the odd tax break are all seen as positives.Read More
Chile's development agency Corfo said any purchase of a stake in SQM by Tianqi Lithium or associated entities would "gravely distort market competition", given Tianqi and SQM together controlled 70% of the global lithium market, according to a 45-page complaint filed on Friday, the wire service said.Corfo head Eduardo Bitran told Reuters Tianqi had presented a non-binding offer for Nutrien Ltd's 3...Read More
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The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada said 2018's convention attendance hit 25,606, the best turn out since 2013.Attendance was still marginally better than last year, just up six percent from 24,161.The PDAC Convention in Toronto, arguably the world's largest annual mining convention, is a bellwether of the industry's health. Participants from 125 countries attend.Organizers said the...Read More
Chile's state-run mining company Codelco, the world's largest copper miner, signed a deal with Ecuador on Saturday for joint development of the Llurimagua copper project near Quito.The project could become the first mine Codelco operates abroad following years of efforts to expand internationally as much of the best-quality ore in Chile has already been mined."The project will wrap up advanced exp...Read More
Asection of the northern dam wall at the Cadia mine, located in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales, collapsed into the southern tailings dam on Friday releasing a slurry of finely ground rock, water and a low level of benign processing reagents.The information was provided by owner and operator Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM), whose management issued a statement on Saturday saying that expe...Read More
Unionized workers at Antofagasta's (LON:ANTO) Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile voted to strike Friday after rejecting the company's latest offer for a collective labour agreement."Around 99% of the voting workers voted in favour of a legal strike," Federaci??n Minera de Chile treasurer Dino Saltori said in a statement (in Spanish), adding the union has 447 members.The stoppage will be the first...Read More
At least three bidders are expected to submit final offers for global miner Rio Tinto's (RIO.AX)(RIO.L) Hail Creek and Kestrel coal mines in Australia, which could fetch up to $2.5 billion, people familiar with the process said.The Anglo-Australian mining company made a strategic decision in 2017 to exit coal and focus on growth in iron ore, copper and its aluminum division.Hail Creek and Kestrel...Read More
Canada's largest diversified miner Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.A | TECK.B)(NYSE:TCK) said Friday it expects to lose about 200,000 tonnes in coal output due to an almost two-month interruption at its Elkview coal mine in British Columbia.The Vancouver-based miner, which confirmed the restart of the mine's drying complex, said repairs will cost less than $10 million, in line with previous estimates.F...Read More
Image: GlencoreThe price of copper dropped close to its 2018 lows and iron ore prices plunged on Thursday after customs data showed imports of raw materials by China weakening sharply in February.In brisk trading New York Comex copper for delivery in May gave up over 2% compared to Wednesday settlement price trading at $3.07 a pound ($6,770 per tonne). Copper is down 7% year to date.China's copper...Read More
SANTIAGO, March 8 (Reuters) - Chile's state-owned mining company Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, received environmental approval this week to build a $1 billion desalination plant to supply water to its operations in the country's northern region.The go-ahead from the Antofagasta region's environmental regulator will allow the company to expand its Radomiro Tomic mine and advanc...Read More
Spending in mining and exploration in Canada's British Columbia saw increasing signs of life in 2017, growing for the first time in five years, according to the results of an EY survey released this week.Exploration spending increased 20% across the province in 2017, reaching $246 million, compared with $205 million in 2016. The increase was largely driven by gold exploration, which totalled $37 m...Read More
The Democratic Republic of Congo imminent law that more than double the tax miners operating in the country pay on exports of cobalt, will severely affect buyers of the metal, a key component in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric cars and mobile phones."Given the tight nature of the cobalt market at present, we would expect miners to attempt to pass through higher royalty costs to c...Read More
Swedish mining company Boliden (STO: BOL) won't have to pay over $12 million (100 million Swedish crowns) in compensation for health problems allegedly caused by toxic waste it dumped in northern Chile, a court ruled Thursday.The lawsuit filed in 2013 by around 800 residents of the city of Arica, in northern Chile, alleged Boliden exported 20,000 tonnes of mining waste in the mid-1980s, despite kn...Read More