Anglo American to halve indirect emissions by 2040
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) aims to halve its indirect greenhouse gases, known as Scope 3 emissions, by 2040 while it continues to boost the use of renewable energy across its…
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Nickel, cobalt allow for cheaper, more efficient green hydrogen production
Researchers at Australia’s Curtin University have identified an electrocatalyst that, with added nickel and cobalt, makes green hydrogen from water in a cheaper and more efficient way compared to traditional…
Teck flags costs surge at Chile Quebrada Blanca expansion
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) Canada’s largest diversified miner, said this week that while construction of its massive Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) expansion project in Chile is two-thirds…
Sibanye-Stillwater takes stake in Australia’s New Century Resources
Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) is extending its footprint to Australia with a US$46 million acquisition of a 19.99% stake in New Century Resources (ASX: NCZ), which owns the Century tailings…
Equinox breaks ground at what will be one of Canada’s largest gold mines
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) has begun full-scale construction at its US$1.23 billion Greenstone Gold Mines project in Ontario, Canada, which is slated to become one of the country’s…
Sibanye-Stillwater buys nickel-copper mines in Brazil for US$1 billion
South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) is buying two nickel and copper miners in Brazil from private equity firm Appian Capital in a US$1 billion deal that boosts the company’s growing battery materials…
Colombian regulator shelves AngloGold’s permit request for Quebradona
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU; ASX: AGG; JSE: ANG) said today that Colombia’s environmental regulator or ANLA, its initials in Spanish, had shelved the permit application for its Quebradona copper-gold project. …
Zijin opens Serbia’s largest copper mine
Zijin Mining, China’s largest gold miner, has begun operations at its Cukaru Peki copper and gold mine in Serbia. The asset, part of the Timok project, is expected to make the Balkan country Europe’s…
Barrick Gold says mining at Pueblo Viejo would end without TSF
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world’s second-largest producer of the precious metal, warns that mining at its Pueblo Viejo operation in the Dominican Republic could finish this year if a new tailings storage facility…
Rio Tinto says 60 Jadar mines wouldn’t fill looming lithium gap
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has joined the rising chorus of companies and analysts warning of an imminent and “significant” supply gap for lithium, as demand for…
Battle for Noront Resources heats up with sweetened offer from BHP
The world’s largest miner is now offering C$0.75 per share of Noront, representing a 36% premium to its previous offer, a 7% premium to the Wyloo offer and a 213% premium to Noront’s unaffected price.
Frontier Lithium produces battery-quality lithium hydroxide
Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) has produced battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate from the PAK deposit, part of the PAK lithium project in northwestern Ontario, 175 km north of Red…