Mining News Pro - The Brazilian state with some of the world’s biggest iron ore mines wants to attract investors to its lithium deposits in a bid to feed growing demand for the key material in electric-vehicle batteries.

Saturday, May 6, 2023 - 23:01:49

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Mining News Pro - The Brazilian state with some of the world’s biggest iron ore mines wants to attract investors to its lithium deposits in a bid to feed growing demand for the key material in electric-vehicle batteries.

Saturday, May 6, 2023 - 23:01:49

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Mining News Pro - The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) destroyed, on land, a small aircraft used to smuggle gold out of the traditional territory of the Yanomami in the Roraima state, near the border with Venezuela.

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 19:47:58

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Mining News Pro - Leftist former Brazilian President Lula was elected this Sunday for a third presidential term, winning over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Monday, October 31, 2022 - 11:35:13

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Mining News Pro - Brazil is home to many beautiful things, not least its exquisite natural gems, including rubellites, emeralds, and the famed Paraíba tourmalines. Independent Brazilian jeweler Ara Vartanian loves to showcase his country’s stones in his pieces, and now he’s spreading the word that the process of extracting them can be a thing of beauty in its own way: Responsible mining has the potential to dramatically improve lives and even combat deforestation.

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 - 13:50:47

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Mining News Pro - Brazilian Nickel PLC has announced that, after an 18 month construction and commissioning period, continuous nickel production has begun from its 100% owned Piauí nickel-cobalt laterite project.

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 - 13:08:56

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Mining News Pro - Sigma Lithium has finished building the production plant foundation for Phase 1of its Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil, the largest hard rock lithium deposit in the Americas.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 - 13:38:37

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Mining News Pro - Vale and other Brazilian mining companies are set to miss a legal deadline in the state of Minas Gerais for the removal of all tailings dams built using a method linked to past collapses, and the industry is seeking to change it.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:38:10

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Mining News Pro - Heavy rainfall is disrupting southeastern Brazil’s giant iron ore industry, with the world’s No. 2 producer Vale SA among companies to halt operations and regulators dispatched to monitor any impact on tailings dams.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 13:04:09

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Mining News Pro - Vancouver-based Great Panther Mining’s Brazilian subsidiary, Mina Tucano, has received three notices of infraction from the Amapá State Environmental Agency (SEMA), which alleges the miner polluted two freshwater streams in the northern Pedra Branca do Amaparí municipality causing a massive fish mortality event.

Friday, December 31, 2021 - 13:59:10

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Mining News Pro - South African Sibanye-Stillwater is in advanced talks to buy two Brazilian nickel and copper assets, as miners across the globe try securing supplies of the metals used in batteries for electric cars and are key for the transition to a green economy.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 09:50:16

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Mining News Pro - The energy arm of iron-ore major Fortescue, Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and a subsidiary of Prumo Logistica S.A, Porto do Açu Operações S.A. (Port of Açu), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to assess the opportunity to develop hydrogen-based green industrial projects in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 1:23:20 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazilian Nickel announced on Wednesday it had received an installation licence for PNP1000, the initial, small-scale production phase of its 100% owned Piauí nickel-cobalt laterite project (PNP), in Brazil’s north-east.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 6:52:25 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazilian mining regulator ANM announced that it will hold a public hearing on new guidelines to tighten safety rules and inspections of mining dams.

Saturday, November 28, 2020 - 12:34:11 PM

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Mining News Pro - The head of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where Vale’s Brumadinho dam collapsed in January 2019, leaving 270 people dead, has rejected the miner’s proposed settlement of around 21 billion reais ($3.97bn).

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 1:09:31 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazil niobium miner Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) has inked a deal with British high-performance luxury carmaker Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) to supply niobium for the production of ultra-light, high-speed cars.

Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 4:24:39 PM

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Mining News Pro - Iron ore prices soared to nearly $US110 ($157.4) per tonne yesterday, a level not seen since August 2019.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 12:25:10 PM

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Mining News Pro - Paulo Camillo Penna, the president of SNIC, the Brazilian national cement industry union, has expressed caution about growing cement sales so far in 2019.

Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 10:49:58 AM

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Mining News Pro - The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has signed a protocol of intent with Sul Americana de Metais, a unit of Chinese miner Honbridge Holdings, for the construction of a 9.1 billion reais ($2.2 billion) mining complex, newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo reported on Saturday.

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 1:43:41 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazil-based lithium startup Sigma Lithium Resources Corp has held talks with Tesla Inc and other automakers about supplying the key battery ingredient in the coming years, the company’s chief executive said on Thursday.

Friday, September 13, 2019 - 12:42:47 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazil-focused Serabi Gold (LON,TSX: SBI) said Monday it remained on track to produce between 40,000 and 44,000 ounces of the precious metal this year from its Palito and Sao Chico mines in the country’s north, almost 19% more than the 37,108 ounces it churned out last year.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - 10:07:07 AM

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Mining News Pro - A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore miner Vale to freeze 1 billion reais (about $260 million) in funds as compensation for affected communities following the January dam disaster at the company’s Corrego do Feijão mine, which left at least 300 people dead.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 10:45:42 AM

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Mining News Pro - It was a busy week for Canada`s Great Panther. The Vancouver-based miner not only completed the buyout of Beadell Resources but it also changed its name to Great Panther Mining Limited.

Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 10:14:48 AM

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Mining News Pro - Excluding Vale, close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne iron ore supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019, a report by Wood Mackenzie states.

Monday, February 25, 2019 - 9:55:09 AM

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Mining News Pro - China iron ore futures rose to a record on Monday, the first session after a week-long national holiday, on concerns that supply from Brazil, the country`s second-largest ore supplier, may decline after a fatal dam accident at a Vale mine.

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 10:49:56 AM

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