Contango grows Alaska gold footprint with two major buys
Emerging North American gold producer Contango ORE is boosting its landhold in Alaska with the acquisition of Canada’s HighGold Mining and Avidian Gold’s subsidiary Avidian Gold Alaska.
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E-haul trucks could result in major savings for miners but adoption is slow
A new report by IDTechEx states that investing in e-haul trucks could result in major savings for miners due to the replacement of diesel with cheaper electricity, as these vehicles have the most intensive duty cycles of any vehicle in a mine.
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Major miners pledge no exploration-related activities at world heritage sites
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) said on Wednesday that its members would stay away from exploration-related activities at world heritage sites and focus on ensuring no net loss of biodiversity at any mining sites.
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Major Chinese copper trader sees glut weighing on prices in 2024
Mining News Pro - The global copper market will face a glut next year, according to one of China’s biggest traders of the metal, which will likely lead to further declines in the commodity that’s vital to the energy transition.
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Atlantic Lithium shuns takeover by major African shareholder
Mining News Pro - Atlantic Lithium (AIM: ALL, ASX: A11) is once again turning down a proposed takeover by major shareholder Assore International Holdings, which has offered to acquire the company at a price of £0.33 per share (A$0.63).
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Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting takes major stake in Liontown
Mining News Pro - Hancock Prospecting, owned by Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, confirmed on Monday markets rumours indicating her company had increase its stake in lithium miner Liontown Resources (ASX: LTR), which recently accepted Albemarle’s (NYSE: ALB) $4.3 billion (A$6.6bn) buyout offer.
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Iron ore price looks set for a tumble as major stimulus hopes fade
Mining News Pro - Iron ore’s rally over the last couple of months is looking increasingly brittle as hopes fade for the type of big-bang, infrastructure-heavy stimulus that China used to deploy.
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LME’s nickel crisis: major developments since trading halt
Mining News Pro - Exchanges are in an uncomfortable wait for the outcome of a lawsuit by two financial firms against the London Metal Exchange for voiding nickel contracts, worried about possible curbs on their ability to react in crisis situations if the LME loses.
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Stillwater Critical Minerals welcomes Glencore as major investor
Mining News Pro - Stillwater Critical Minerals has welcomed Glencore Canada as a major investor to help advance its portfolio of nickel exploration and development projects in North America.
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Canadian Copper grabs majority stake in Murray Brook VMS deposit in New Brunswick
Mining News Pro - Canadian Copper (CSE: CCI) has followed up on its letter of intent (LOI) with Votorantim Metals Canada by announcing its decision acquire a 72% stake in the Murray Brook project located in the Bathurst mining camp of New Brunswick.
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Iron Mine Contracting secure major mining deal
Mining News Pro - Iron Mine Contracting will continue its partnership with Liontown after it was awarded a multi-million-dollar open pit mining services contract in Kathleen Valley.
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Ramelius acquires majority stake in Breaker
Mining News Pro - Gold producer Ramelius Resources has purchased a controlling stake in Breaker Resources, another Australian gold producer.
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Albemarle plans major US lithium processing plant
Mining News Pro - Albemarle Corp plans to build a lithium processing plant in the United States that would produce as much of the electric vehicle battery metal as the entire company produces today, a bullish bet on America’s all-electric future, an executive said on Monday.
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Iran Alumina Company is one of major alumina powder suppliers
Mining News Pro - According to the Iran Alumina Co., this company supply the raw material of 7 private companies.
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Hudbay suffers major Rosemont copper project setback in Arizona
Mining News Pro - Canada’s Hudbay Minerals has suffered a fresh setback in its bid to build the Rosemont open pit copper project in Arizona following a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declining to overturn a 2019 decision that blocked the project.
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China’s renewables boom year poses major challenges to western markets
Mining News Pro - China’s renewables manufacturing has emerged from 2021 bigger and more competitive than ever before. Western markets are benefitting from trading with the IKEA of the energy transition, but balancing reliance on China’s technology providers with local interests is now a key political as well as environmental challenge, says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business.
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Mining Millennial hopes to build Mexico’s next major silver producer
Mining News Pro - An alumnus of Pretium Resources and co-founder of Cobalt One, 33-year-old Michael Konnert is pouring his heart and soul into the development of the 9,400-hectare Panuco project located in Sinaloa, northwestern Mexico.
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Research improves major miners’ maintenance
Mining News Pro - The University of Western Australia (UWA) has worked in partnership with Curtin University, CSIRO, Alcoa, BHP and Roy Hill to improve the maintenance duties of large processing plants.
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Agnico Eagle and Kirkland Lake Gold merger likely the last major deal in Canada
Mining News Pro - The mega-merger of Agnico Eagle Mines and Kirkland Lake Gold unveiled to the market on September 28 “makes a lot of strategic sense” but is likely to be the last blockbuster M&A deal by a major in the Canadian mining sector, according to Haywood Securities mining analyst Kerry Smith.
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Chadormalu Mining Co. among the major producers of Concentrate in Iran
Mining News Pro - According to published statistics on the performance of 9 iron ore production units in the country including Sabanour, Golgohar Mining, Chadormalu Mining and etc, during the first quarter of this year, 11 million 913 thousand 536 tons of iron ore has been produced which shows a 2 percent decrease compared to the same period last year.
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Sabanour Mining Co. among the major producers of Concentrate, 2 percent decrease
Mining News Pro - According to published statistics on the performance of 9 iron ore production units in the country including Sabanour, Golgohar Mining, Chadormalu Mining and etc, during the first quarter of this year, 11 million 913 thousand 536 tons of iron ore has been produced which shows a 2 percent decrease compared to the same period last year.
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Negotiations over major copper mine contract kick off in Panama
Mining News Pro - Panama's government launched contract talks on Wednesday with the local unit of Canada's First Quantum in a bid to get the Canadian miner to pay more in royalty payments and improve environmental conditions at its flagship copper mine.
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BHP announces major changes
Mining News Pro - Diversified miner BHP has reported an 80% increase in profit for the 2021 financial year, along with a 69% increase in underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) when compared with the previous financial year.
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First phase of global technology challenge a major success
Mining News Pro - Diversified miner BHP this week revealed that the Charge On Innovation Challenge, had received an overwhelming response in its preliminary phase, which closed at the end of July.
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Reward earns major project status for Lake Disappointment
Mining News Pro - Reward Minerals has been granted major project status by the Australian Government for the $450 million Lake Disappointment brine and sulphate of potash project in northern Western Australia.
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