Mining News Pro - Some 200 million Indonesians will vote for a new leader next month. The three campaigns still in the running have all backed the government’s policy on so-called downstreaming. But the Morowali disaster has thrown up criticisms of the price paid.

Friday, January 5, 2024 - 22:47:46

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Mining News Pro - Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), owned by major producer Emirates Global Aluminium, has offered the Guinea government the use of GAC’s fuel berth and bulk storage infrastructure to help deal with the aftermath of an oil terminal blast.

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 - 20:53:33

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Mining News Pro - In the first six months of the current year, ESCO's blast furnace department achieved a 4% increase in cast iron production and a 7% increase compared to the same period last year.

Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 17:08:50

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Mining News Pro - At least four people were killed, including one Chinese national, in an explosion at a granite quarry in western Ghana owned by Chinese company Omni Quarries late on Saturday, local officials said on Sunday.

Monday, September 11, 2023 - 19:03:22

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Mining News Pro - India’s Tata Steel said three contract workers had been injured in a blast at one of its coke plant units in the eastern state of Jharkhand on Saturday.

Monday, May 9, 2022 - 13:58:25

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Mining News Pro - The Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (Rema in Spanish) blasted the contents of the legal reforms that nationalize the lithium industry alleging that the government of leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador “decided to remain submissive to the market and to the extractive model with which the Mining Law was designed in 1992.”

Monday, May 2, 2022 - 12:52:10

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Mining News Pro - A Mexican law that nationalizes its future lithium industry violates its trade obligations and could prove costly to the government if mining companies seek to recoup losses, the local branch of the International Chamber of Commerce said on Wednesday.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 - 14:37:49

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Mining News Pro - Gold blasted to its highest since 2020 after Russian forces attacked targets across Ukraine, triggering the worst security crisis in Europe since World War II and further crushing risk sentiment across the global markets.

Friday, February 25, 2022 - 12:45:19

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Mining News Pro - About 60 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in an explosion at an informal gold mining site in southwest Burkina Faso, state television reported, citing local officials.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 12:53:16

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Mining News Pro - Serbian politicians on Friday blasted environmentalists for forcing them to scuttle Rio Tinto’s proposed $2.4 billion lithium project, warning the move could hurt efforts to grow and diversify the Balkan country’s economy.

Sunday, January 23, 2022 - 12:51:03

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Mining News Pro - A blast at a plant of Russia’s steelmaker NLMK destroyed the roof of its coal storage facility and caused a brief fire late on Sunday, the Russian emergency ministry and the company said.

Monday, November 15, 2021 - 12:59:39

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Mining News Pro - M Resources has achieved its first open cut blasting milestone at the Millennium metallurgical coal mine in Queensland and released an epic video to prove it.

Friday, October 22, 2021 - 13:52:29

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Mining News Pro - In Washinton on Tuesday, members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) came out in opposition of House Democrats’ attempt to change the mining law through a partisan budget process.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 13:09:58

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Mining News Pro - Chile's environmental regulator said on Tuesday that it had filed charges against Canadian miner Lundin's Candelaria copper mine for breaches in its operational permits, including violations related to its blasting operations.

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 13:39:31

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Mining News Pro - Iron ore junior Fe has made another step towards progressing the JWD project in Western Australia after completing its first blast, with the crushing and screening plant to go online later this week.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 12:48:41

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Mining News Pro - The University of Queensland has installed a BHP-backed experimental chamber to deliver more efficient underground blasting for mining applications.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 12:42:39

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Mining News Pro - Copper price climbed to the highest since 2011 as the global recovery from the pandemic extended a rally in metals markets and as port workers in Chile called a strike.

Monday, April 26, 2021 - 22:28:07

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Mining News Pro - Orica has bolstered its blasting technology offering with the release of advanced vibration management (AVM) software.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 12:30:55

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Mining News Pro - A large blast rocked the northern Chilean mining city of Calama on Friday afternoon following an explosion in a storage warehouse belonging to Enaex , which produces explosives for the mining industry.

Monday, April 19, 2021 - 16:20:40

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Mining News Pro - Mining major Rio Tinto chairperson Simon Thompson has informed the board that he would not be seeking re-election as a nonexecutive director at the company’s 2022 annual general meeting.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 1:22:01 PM

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Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto’s former chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and other two executives forced to leave the company after the destruction of sacred rock shelters in Western Australia closed out 2020 with substantial payouts.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 1:13:30 PM

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Mining News Pro - Failure by the 2015 Eskom board to interrogate the submission to authorise a R1.68-billion prepurchase payment to a Gupta-owned company cast doubt on the directors prudence, with State Capture Commission chairperson Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo going as far as calling them negligent on Wednesday.

Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 1:34:09 PM

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Mining News Pro - Mincor Resources has completed the first blasts at the Cassini nickel project and Northern Operations in Western Australia after mining contractor Pit N Portal mobilised at both sites.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 12:52:15 PM

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Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto and Indigenous Australians said on Thursday they had taken initial steps towards rebuilding their relationship after the miner destroyed sacred Aboriginal caves in Western Australia in May.

Friday, December 25, 2020 - 12:02:24 PM

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Mining News Pro - An Australian parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site in May this year has urged the company to halt all mining activities in the area, undertake land rehabilitation and review all of its agreements with traditional owners.

Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 12:28:01 PM

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