Why climate change is leaving mining firms between a rock and a hard place
For most of us, when we think about mining and the environment, it tends to be about water and air pollution, disasters such as the fatal collapse of tailings dams, or the global warming consequences of coal mining.
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BlackRock reduces stake in Polymetal International
US investment firm BlackRock has reduced its stake in precious metals producer Polymetal International to 7.45% from 9.91%, the gold and silver miner said on Friday.
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Aboriginal group to inspect rock shelters for potential Rio Tinto damage
An Aboriginal group from Western Australia’s iron ore producing region will inspect an important cultural site in the coming days after it received a notice from Rio Tinto of possible damage, the group’s chief executive said.
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First Quantum faces rocky road as Panama protesters dig in
Mining News Pro - Battered Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals is bracing for a rocky road ahead as Panama moves to strike down its contract to operate one of the world’s largest copper mines.
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First Quantum faces rocky road as Panama protesters dig in
Mining News Pro - Battered Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals is bracing for a rocky road ahead as Panama moves to strike down its contract to operate one of the world’s largest copper mines.
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Rock weathering does not act as CO2 sink, as previously thought
Mining News Pro - A new study published in the journal Nature has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can also act as a large carbon dioxide source, rivalling that of volcanoes.
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Stone Age Ethiopians knew how to source their iron-rich rocks
Mining News Pro - Changes in the use of ochre in Middle Stone Age Ethiopia depict a culture in slow transition, progressively replacing exotic iron-rich high-quality rocks with lower quality, poorer in iron, but locally available ones.
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Lundin Mining CEO Peter Rockandel to step down
Mining News Pro - Canadian miner Lundin Mining on Monday said its chief executive officer, Peter Rockandel, would step down on Dec. 31.
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Rio’s latest rock shelter damage highlights need for Aboriginal Voice, advocates say
Mining News Pro - Damage caused to an Aboriginal rock shelter by mining giant Rio Tinto in August underscores the need for better heritage protection laws and a greater say for Indigenous groups promised in this month’s Voice referendum, advocates say.
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US judge orders waste rock study for Thacker Pass lithium project
Mining News Pro - The proposed mine would be North America’s largest source of lithium for electric vehicle batteries and a key pillar in US President Joe Biden’s efforts to wean his country off Chinese supplies of the metal.
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Super strong material produced with Martian rock
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Washington State University report that a small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with a titanium alloy made a robust and high-performance material in a 3D-printing process that could one day be used on the red planet to make tools or rocket parts.
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Coal’s skyrocketing prices could last years on Russia disruption
Mining News Pro - Coal’s remarkable rise from a fuel left for dead to one of the world’s hottest commodities is likely to last for years.
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Ancient rocks reveal how earth avoided Mars-like fate
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the University of Rochester published a new study which suggests that the development of earth’s solid inner core had everything to do with the rejuvenation of the swirling liquid iron in our planet’s outer core, which generates its protective magnetic field.
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Lithium stocks rout continues despite fresh hard rock price record
Mining News Pro - At the end of May, Goldman Sachs rattled lithium stocks after the investment bank declared the battery metals bull market “over for now”. Goldman called today’s lithium levels a “fundamental mispricing [that] has in turn generated an outsized supply response well ahead of the demand trend.”
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Dividend payouts hit first quarter record, but outlook rocky
Mining News Pro - Mining and oil firms led an 11% jump in dividend payouts to a first-quarter record of $302.5 billion, according to a closely-watched global report, though it warned companies face a growing number of challenges in the months ahead.
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Miners turn to bacteria and other new ways to leach copper from waste rock
Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto Ltd, Freeport-McMoRan Inc and other global miners, spurred by rising prices and demand, are deploying a raft of new leaching technologies that can extract low concentrations of copper from waste rock and help avoid lengthy mine permitting delays.
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How to classify rocks during quarrying
Mining News Pro - New research shows that it is possible to classify sedimentary rocks according to the size of the particles they contain during quarrying, using a portable Raman spectrometer.
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Ukraine crisis rocks the London Metal Exchange
Mining News Pro - The war in Ukraine has engulfed the 145-year-old London Metal Exchange (LME), which sits at the epicentre of the global trade in industrial metals.
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A mineral may control how Earth recycles rocks
Mining News Pro - The geological events we see on the surface of the Earth as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are expressions of processes that are happening deep in our planet. Here on the Earth’s crust, we’re part of a conveyor belt system called plate tectonics where old crust at the margins of oceans is shoved back underground beneath continents, into the mantle.
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Rock Tech, Bilfinger to build Europe’s first lithium refinery
Mining News Pro - Canada’s Rock Tech Lithium and Germany’s Bilfinger SE will work together on building Europe’s first lithium converter and refinery in a push to meet the region’s increasing demand for electric vehicles (EVs).
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Regis rockfall knocks gold guidance
Mining News Pro - Regis Resources has revised its gold production targets at the Duketon operation in Western Australia, due to a wall slip at its Rosemont main pit.
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Rock Tech Lithium to raise $40 million for German, Ontario projects
Mining News Pro - Rock Tech Lithium is raising C$59.1 million ($45.6m) to build a high-grade lithium hydroxide converter and refinery in Guben, Germany, and to advance its Georgia Lake lithium project in Ontario,145 km northeast of Thunder Bay.
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Resources exports to skyrocket
Mining News Pro - Australia’s resource and energy exports are expected to reach a record $379 billion in 2021-22, up from $310 billion in 2020-21, according to the Resources and Energy Quarterly for December 2021.
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Vimy moves with haste at Mulga Rock uranium
Mining News Pro - Vimy Resources has begun development of the Mulga Rock uranium project in Western Australia after receiving approval for its operational radiation management plan (ORMP).
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Iron ore price rockets as China imports hit highest in 16 months
Mining News Pro - Iron ore price surged on Tuesday after customs data showed China’s iron ore imports rose 14.6% in November from a month earlier to hit their highest since July 2020.
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