New global tailings guidelines aim for zero harm
The Global Tailings Review (GTR) has released the first-ever Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, aimed at strengthening best practices around tailings dams in the…
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Vale enacts emergency protocol at Barragem 5 dam in Brazil
Vale (NYSE: Vale) announced on July 29 that it started, on a preventive basis, the Level 1 emergency protocol for Barragem 5 dam, at Mina da…
US markets fall, June 22-26
A surge in coronavirus cases in parts of the United States undermined market sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3.31% to 25,015.55 and the…
Vale to resume operations at Voisey’s Bay
Vale (NYSE: VALE), the world’s top producer of nickel and iron ore, is fine-tuning details to reopen its Voisey’s Bay open pit nickel mine and…
Fortescue Metals targets zero emissions by 2040
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG), the world’s fourth largest iron ore producer, has brought forward a self-imposed deadline to be carbon-neutral by 2040, ten years…
Vale raises emergency alert level at inactive tailings dams
Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE: VALE) has issued a level one emergency alert for three inactive tailings dams in the country’s southeastern state of Minas…
US markets advance, May 25-May 29: Vale, Cleveland Cliffs, Fortuna Silver, Barrick
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.75% to 25,383.11, and the S&P 500 increased 3.01% to 3,044.31. Spot gold fell US$4.00 per oz., or 0.23%,…
Vale ordered to set aside US$1.5B for damages from tailings dam disaster
A judge in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has partially granted an injunction sought by prosecutors by ordering Vale (NYSE: VALE) to set aside…
US markets fall, April 27-May 1: Vale, Barrick
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.22%, or 51.58 points, to 23,723.69, and the S&P 500 dropped 0.21%, or 6.03 points, to finish the trading…
Vale takes offers for New Caledonia nickel assets
Vale (NYSE: VALE), the world’s top producer of nickel and iron ore, has received non-binding offers for its operations on the Pacific island of New…
Extended lockdowns hit copper production
Peruvian copper mine Antamina, owned by BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) and Glencore (LSE: GLEN), has reported 210 positive cases of coronavirus and said the…
Miners’ response to Brazil dam disaster still weak: report
More than a year after the tailings disaster at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Brazil Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine killed 270 people, the mining industry…