South Africa’s unity rule may boost mining
South Africa’s new coalition government with a pro-business party could help the world’s leading platinum producer improve its troubled power and rail networks getting metal to market, analysts say. The…
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Sacked Nickel 28 CEO repays $3.2M
The CEO of a Canadian company with a small stake in a Papua New Guinea (PNG) nickel-cobalt mine is repaying about $3.2 million in shares and resigning from the board…
Considering M&A? Here’s what to ask
A large copper miner in Chile only found it had been overpaying a royalty by a significant amount after three ownership deals and 20 years of operation, lawyer Greg McNab…
Green bonds grow as financing option
Green bonds are a rising source of funding as project developers widen their search for financing beyond stock markets, according to a panel at a New York mining conference. There…
World Bank tribunal rules against Canada’s Montauk in dispute with Colombia
A World Bank tribunal has ruled in favour of Colombia in a feud with Canada’s Montauk Metals (TSXV: MTK). A mining ban imposed by the Gustavo Petro administration on the…
Nigerian illegal mine collapse kills 20
Heavy rains caused an open-pit mine collapse in Nigeria that killed at least 20 people and trapped 14 others, according to local Channels Television, which cited police. Rescuers were hampered…
Slave-labour ruling lands Vale on ‘dirty list’
Vale said that its inclusion in the list is incorrect and that it will take the necessary steps for its immediate removal.
Hudbay, unions reach deal for Arizona copper project
Canada’s Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has reached a labour agreement with union leaders to construct the Copper World mine in Arizona. The agreement marks a key step in the…
Atlantic Mining sees Touquoy mine as green energy hub
Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia, a subsidiary of St Barbara (ASX: SBM), has kicked off a program to explore the feasibility of converting the now closed Touquoy gold mine in Moose…
Underground protest ends at Sibanye in South Africa
An underground sit-in at Sibanye-Stillwater‘s (JSE: SSW; NYSE: SBSW) Kroondal platinum operations in South Africa in its Kwezi shaft has ended, the company said, with all employees leaving the mine safely…
New technocrat Mexican leader unlikely pro-mining even as she replaces ‘whim and bombast’
Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, won Mexico’s election to become the country’s first female leader and is expected to continue the anti-mining policies of outgoing President Andres Manuel López Obrador. …
MacDonald Mines pulls assays linked to former CEO Yarie, echoing Red Pine
Another Canadian gold junior who had Quentin Yarie as a former CEO is withdrawing its assays on a project because of inconsistencies. MacDonald Mines Exploration (TSX-V: BMK; US-OTC: MCDMF) said…