Green light for Samarco
THE Samarco joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Group has been given approval to resume operations at the Germano iron ore plant in...
Mining industry stays positive
WHILE mining company office personnel head home to work, mine sites remains in production, with policies in place to limit the effect of the...
Chile METS eye Australian markets
BY REUBEN ADAMS
THE surging Chilean Mining, Equipment, Technology and Services (METS) sector has identified Australia as one of four key international growth markets.
The Trade...
GTR’s early move to USA uranium puts it ahead of the...
As investors cotton on to the generally positive movements in the uranium price, the outlook for uranium explorers and producers is also improving.GTi Resources...
Wiluna Shuts Down Russian Gold Shipments From Australia
Just days after sending its first gold concentrate shipment to St Petersburg headquartered Polymetal International plc, Wiluna Mining Corporation Limited (ASX: WMC) has suspended...
$2.75m for Sayona lithium projects
ASX-LISTED lithium company Sayona Mining is to bid for the North American lithium mine in Québec, Canada, after securing $2.75m of funding from a...
Rio eyes Grasberg exit
Caption: image: Richard Jones.
BY REUBEN ADAMS
RIO Tinto is looking to offload its interest in the troubled Grasberg copper-gold operations for $US3.5 billion to an...
Rio looks to a ‘deeper world’
RIO Tinto (ASX: RIO) chief executive J-S Jacques waxed philosophical to investors in London on Monday speaking of his vision of the company’s future.He...
GFG’s European expansion
GFG Alliance executive chairman Sanjeev Gupta. Image: GFG Alliance.
BY ELIZABETH FABRI
BRITISH steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance will pay $US500 million for Rio Tinto’s...
Testing the waters
ON 25 January, the tailings dam collapse at Vale’s Feijão mine near Brumadinho, Brazil, sent a torrent of sludge into the miner’s administrative area and...