The View from England: Mining should measure its queue
We British are good at queuing, and most of us practice standing in line from an early age. This lifetime of training came to fruition during the four days leading…
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Savannah Resources to resubmit Portugal’s lithium project EIA by March 2023
Savannah Resources (AIM: SAV), the company trying to build western Europe’s largest lithium mine in Portugal, said on Wednesday it had made progress towards fulfilling an additional step requested by…
Glencore eyes adding lithium to its trading business
Mining and commodities giant Glencore (LSE: GLEN) is said to be evaluating the addition of lithium to the suite of metals it trades, as the battery metal has become the…
Beaver Creek: Industry heavyweights weigh in on gold’s role in a changing world order
The Precious Metals Summit currently underway in Beaver Creek, CO has heard how gold is poised to play an increasingly important role in a changing global geopolitical landscape. During a…
Tertiary, First Quantum Minerals team up to boost Zambian exploration
Shares in Tertiary Minerals (LSE: TYM) jumped on Thursday after the junior said it had inked a technical cooperation agreement with First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM), which would “turbo-charge” its…
Beaver Creek: Miners should hedge future carbon offset costs
As the energy revolution gathers momentum, so too intensifies the pressure from the investment community on miners to create net-zero emissions operations that produce sustainable upstream products feeding the new…
The view from England: Critical time for minerals
You don’t need to be a monarchist to have admired Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96. She was famously discrete in her opinions and never…
Cornish Lithium secures UK government funding for demonstration plant
Cornish Lithium, the startup hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in Britain, has secured funding from the U.K.’s national innovation agency to build a…
Analysis: No reduction in tailings dam failures over the past two decades
A newly released assessment of global tailings management facilities (TMFs) data paints a jarring picture showing that relative to global mine production, there has been no improvement in the rate…
Moody’s cuts metals price calls amid slowing global growth
Credit rating firm Moody’s Investors Service has pared down its 12-month price outlook for a basket of metals and mining commodities, citing a global economic slowdown and softening demand. Essential…
Mining industry on track to meet decarbonization targets, say analysts
The availability of risk capital for miners is biased towards those with concrete plans for achieving net-zero emissions targets by 2030, says Keith Russell, global director for energy transition, purpose…
Primitive vegetation played key role in composition of earth’s continental rocks
Primitive plants transformed what was once a Mars-like planet of barren rock into a world of life growing in organic-rich soils.