Belgium’s Nyrstar is reactivating the Budel zinc smelter in the Netherlands after a four-month period of care and maintenance.

Friday, May 3, 2024 - 14:28:29

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A Russian arbitration court ruled on Monday that four units of Swiss commodities trader Glencore will pay more than 11.4 billion roubles, or some 114.8 million euros, worth of shares in a lawsuit filed by Sberbank, according to the court.

Monday, April 15, 2024 - 23:28:22

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Northvolt AB is starting construction of a €5 billion ($5.4 billion) battery plant in northern Germany to supply electric cars, capping an intense lobbying effort under newly relaxed European Union state aid rules.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 22:04:16

Visit: 89

More than 1,400 plaintiffs are demanding over 582 million euros ($634 million) in damages from German industrial inspector TÜV Süd over its alleged role in the deadly collapse of a dam in Brazil, their lawyers said on Thursday.

Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 22:50:26

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Mining News Pro - Australia’s Fortescue on Friday said it received 200 million euros ($219.3 million) from the European Union (EU) for its Holmaneset Project, a flagship green ammonia plant in Norway.

Friday, December 15, 2023 - 23:35:19

Visit: 101

Mining News Pro - European companies are exploring ways to replace the gallium and germanium supply put at risk by China’s export curbs after pressure from EU authorities, but the industry says incentives will be needed to make critical mineral production viable.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 18:15:35

Visit: 108

Mining News Pro - In 2021, the UK set out a bold ambition to become a ‘global leader in hydrogen’ by 2030. Two years later, delivery is falling short and it’s dropped behind European rivals jostling for a piece of the market.

Saturday, October 7, 2023 - 22:30:19

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Mining News Pro - Some of Europe’s biggest insurers are underwriting close to a third of the coal production that takes place in the US, even after pledging to target net zero emissions, according to a report by climate campaign group Insure Our Future.

Friday, September 29, 2023 - 22:11:34

Visit: 180

Mining News Pro - The European Union is finalizing partnerships with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia to boost local industries as the bloc competes with China to secure critical materials for the green and digital sectors.

Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 22:40:10

Visit: 168

Mining News Pro - Investors are finally seeing potential in European mining shares, as China’s step-by-step economic stimulus is steadily laying the foundations for a recovery of the unloved sector.

Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 22:41:35

Visit: 198

Mining News Pro - In Portugal’s northern Barroso region, Maria Loureiro weeps at the prospect of losing her family’s land to a mine that could become one of Europe’s biggest producers of lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries and other clean technologies.

Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 16:03:09

Visit: 178

Mining News Pro - Europe’s top copper producer Aurubis AG warned it may face losses in the hundreds of millions of euros after being hit by a massive scam involving shipments of scrap metal that it uses in its recycling business.

Friday, September 1, 2023 - 22:20:09

Visit: 209

Mining News Pro - Coal cargoes unwanted in Europe are heading to Asia, where utilities are stockpiling the fuel amid sweltering temperatures heading into the summer.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 21:00:10

Visit: 268

Mining News Pro - Glencore and Li-Cycle Holdings group, two of the world’s leading recyclers, have partnered up to deliver a landmark European project.

Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 00:13:15

Visit: 203

Mining News Pro - On the edge of Sillamae, a town of just over 12,000 people in northeast Estonia, sits a grassy hill with a secret.

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 12:17:43

Visit: 251

Mining News Pro - European Commissioner Thierry Breton urged European financiers this week to provide more funding to suppliers of minerals needed for the energy transition, as the European Union prepares its Green Deal industrial plan.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 23:38:28

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Mining News Pro - The copper market took a breather on Wednesday after eight straight days of gains, but not before touching a fresh six month high of $4.39 a pound ($9,680 a tonne) in early trade, bringing its gains YTD to 12%.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 14:33:31

Visit: 208

Mining News Pro - Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB said it had found Europe’s largest known deposit of rare earths close to Kiruna, the country’s northernmost town.

Saturday, January 14, 2023 - 18:14:43

Visit: 339

Mining News Pro - Europe needs to invest €302 billion annually to build relevant infrastructure over the next two years if it wants to reach its goals of becoming climate neutral by 2050 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, a new study has shown.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - 00:06:05

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Mining News Pro - Wealth Minerals Ltd. is betting that its plan to use a more sustainable lithium mining method will lure European buyers of the mineral used in electric vehicle batteries and solar panels.

Friday, December 30, 2022 - 11:16:57

Visit: 233

Mining News Pro - Swedish steel is considered the world’s toughest. It may soon become its greenest. In Boden, a town near the Arctic Circle, a startup called h2 Green Steel (h2gs) is erecting a €4bn ($4bn) new mill, Europe’s first in nearly half a century.

Friday, December 16, 2022 - 16:31:02

Visit: 388

Mining News Pro - The ultimate goal behind the new system is to reduce Europe’s dependence on imported minerals and metals used to produce everything from mobile phones, to renewable energy, and modern defence equipment.

Saturday, November 26, 2022 - 11:21:07

Visit: 430

Mining News Pro - Europe’s power crisis, production cuts, and shortages of aluminum have left consumers in a quandary about Russian supplies of the metal vital for the region’s transport, construction and packaging industries.

Sunday, September 18, 2022 - 11:36:20

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Mining News Pro - In the aluminum industry, closing a smelter is an agonizing decision. Once power is cut and the production “pots” settle back to room temperature, it can take many months and tens of millions of dollars to bring them back online.

Monday, September 5, 2022 - 14:42:50

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Mining News Pro - South Africa’s energy minister dismissed the notion that renewable electricity can bring an end to years of rolling blackouts, pointing to Europe’s pivot back to the use of fossil fuels as evidence of the constraints of using green energy.

Friday, September 2, 2022 - 16:42:32

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