Covid-19 has exposed the overdependence and vulnerability in the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain, which supports the development of other regional battery production hubs in the coming years, panellists said in a Fastmarkets webinar last week."There is growing nationalism and regionalism [and] coronavirus has been a wake-up call for how dependent industries are on China," Emily Hersh, managing...Read More
European spot prices for high-carbon ferro-manganese and silico-manganese have fallen by more than 7% in the past week, in line with soft demand and persistently lower ore prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday June 29.New spot deals and offers have dragged alloy prices down to levels last seen about six months ago, and further weakness was expected when steelmakers shut down furnaces in July...Read More
European prices for vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) and ferro-vanadium continued to fall in the week ended Friday June 26 under pressure from weak end-user demand, with V2O5 prices dropping by 7%.Fastmarkets assessed the price of vanadium pentoxide, 98% V2O5 min, in-whs Rotterdam, at $5.10-5.50 per lb on Friday, down from $5.15-6.25 per lb in the previous week. The market was now at its lowest for three...Read More
Iamgold's (TSX: IMG) 70%-owned C??t?(C) gold project in northern Ontario has received a key federal permitting approval, taking it one step closer to a construction decision.The approval, under the Fisheries Act, is related to impacts on fish habitats and tailings management for the site, located 20 km southwest of Gogama.Iamgold says it's working toward a construction decision with Sumitomo Meta...Read More
Rupert Resources (TSXV: RUP) has reported two new drill results from its recently discovered Ikkari target at its wholly owned Pahtavaara gold project, located in northern Finland's Central Lapland Greenstone Belt, 150 km north-northeast of the town of Rovaniemi.Drill hole 120059 intersected 15.2 grams gold per tonne over 13 metres from 121 metres downhole including 36.6 grams gold per tonne over...Read More
Trevali Mining (TSX: TV; US-OTC: TREVF) has suspended operations at its Santander zinc-lead-silver mine in Peru after 19 workers tested positive for the Covid-19.Trevali said the workers were asymptomatic and put into quarantine.Further testing will be done at the mine, and the company did not provide a timeline for a restart.The underground mine is 215 km northeast of Lima and has a 2,000-tonne p...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) has reached an agreement with Mongolia regarding the construction of a power plant to supply the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, located in the Gobi Desert.The new deal is a revision of the original power source framework agreement (PSFA) signed in 2018. It states that Rio Tinto, its subsidiary Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) and the Mongolian...Read More
Let's face it, at times like these, editorial writers are spoiled for choice. How does one choose among the most pertinent topics of the day? The surge in new coronavirus cases in the U.S.? Last week Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and South Carolina all reported their highest-ever single-day totals of new cases. Yesterday Johns Hopkins University recorded nearly 39,000 new cases in the United States.Or...Read More
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Teck president and CEO Don Lindsay joins The Northern Miner's Trish Saywell for a fireside chat at the Canadian Mining Symposium on Zoom.Read More
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