Vale faces fresh US$3.8B lawsuit over 2015 dam disaster
Vale (NYSE: VALE) is facing a £3-billion (US$3.8 billion) lawsuit in the Netherlands related to the 2015 collapse of a dam in Brazil, adding to a long list of existing…
Iron Ore
JV Video: Temas Resources plans $1.2B titanium, iron ore mine in Quebec
Temas Resources’ (CSE: TMAS) La Blache titanium-vanadium-iron project in eastern Quebec benefits from being similar to Rio Tinto‘s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) decades-old operations in the same region,…
China’s clean-tech surge shakes markets and tests Western green resolve
Against China’s production boom, Western countries are trying to figure out how to build their clean-tech industries without being undercut by cheaper Chinese products. They’re stuck between wanting to secure…
Vale ex-president could escape Brumadinho homicide charges
Fábio Schvartsman claims no connection to dam breach.
From competitor to partner, AI joins forces with the explorers
If you’re a long-term reader of mine, you’ll know I’ve framed tech in a rather skeptical light. Perhaps unfairly. But when it comes to liquidity in the financial system, there’s…
Legacy uses AI to discover platinum in Australia
Legacy Minerals (ASX: LGM) says it’s deployed artificial intelligence software to discover platinum group elements (PGE) and nickel-copper-iron sulphides on the Fontenoy project in New South Wales, Australia. Diamond drillhole…
Iron ore boom of the 2000s repeating – this time with critical metals
A headline published in The Age back in July 2003 reads: “[Andrew] Forrest has a grand $1.2bn plan for tiny Perth mining company.” That company was called Allied Mining and…
Anglo American to produce iron ore from Vale’s deposit in Brazil
The miners have signed an agreement to integrate the Serra da Serpentina deposit into the Minas-Rio iron ore complex.
Rio Tinto OKs US$6.2B Simandou iron mine
“The board yesterday approved the largest mining project in the world,” CEO Stausholm told Financial Times.
Rio Tinto autonomous train derails in Western Australia
Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) said on Tuesday that an unloaded autonomous train derailed on Sunday evening at about 120 km from Western Australia’s Dampier port. The world’s largest iron ore…
Peru unveils platform to speed up permitting
Officials from Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines met with representatives from the largest mining companies operating in the country to offer details on a new digital initiative expected to…
BHP to review US$9.7B fine handed by Brazil over dam failure
BHP (ASX: BHP) said on Friday it had yet to receive a formal notification from Brazilian authorities about a court decision sentencing it to pay 47.6 billion reais (US$9.7 billion) in…