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Vladislav Zhdanov was appointed as Vice President of ALROSA, starting from 17 November. The competence of Vladislav Zhdanov will lie in economic security of the Company, he will also be in charge of internal audit and monitoring, risk management....

Russia's central bank recently warned about the growing financial risks to the Russian economy from Saudi Arabia encroaching upon its traditional export market for crude oil. Russia sends 70 percent of its oil to Europe, but Saudi Arabia has...

Helena Marjaranta, (FM) has been appointed Vice President, Global Communications at Metso as of December 1, 2015. She will be based in Helsinki. Helena's responsibility area covers external and internal communications. She reports to Urs Pennanen, Senior Vice President,...

Lonmin (LON:LMI) shareholders decided Thursday to approve a deeply-discounted $407 million share issue, as the struggling platinum miner seeks cash to stay afloat. Hurting from strikes, rising costs and weak platinum prices, the South African company said last month...

A recent survey by Timetric's Mining Intelligence Center (MIC) asked over 630 mine managers and senior decision-makers across more than 500 mines globally, to nominate the leading manufacturers (in first and second place) for different types of mining equipment,...

Mining operations at one of Kazakhmys projects in Kazakhstan.KAZAKHMYS has completed the acquisition of Koksay Copper Project in southeast Kazakhstan The project is at scoping stage and has a resource of about 3.4 million tonnes of copper with an...

Metals Exploration has been served a suspension order for certain mine construction works at the Runruno Gold Project in the Philippines while it deals with impacts from Typhoon Lando (Koppu). The super-typhoon passed close to the Runruno development project...