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Coal mining company QCoal has awarded a contract to Sedgman to design and construct a tailings dewatering facility at the $1.76bn Byerwen coal mine in central Queensland, Australia. The Byerwen open-cut coal mine is located around 20km west of Glenden...

Multinational commodities company Glencore has temporarily reduced production at the Murrin Murrin nickel-cobalt operation in Western Australia following a malfunction at an acid plant at the site. Glencore’s Murrin Murrin fully integrated nickel and cobalt operation is located approximately 880km...

Australia-based mineral exploration firm Lotus Resources has signed an agreement with Kayelekera Resources to increase its ownership stake in the Malawi-based Kayelekera uranium project to 85%. Lotus will exercise its option to acquire a 20% stake in the project through...

Wheaton Precious Metals has signed a precious metal purchase agreement with Capstone Mining pertaining to the Santo Domingo project in the Atacama Region, Chile. Chile’s only fully permitted greenfield project, the Santo Domingo copper-iron-gold project is located about 50km southwest...

Granada Gold Mine Inc. is pleased to announce the significant discovery of Scandium (Sc), Rubidium (Rb), and Cesium (Cs) on the Big Claim of the Granada Gold Mine property, in Quebec, Canada. Results are preliminary and full core lengths have...

In a trading statement for FY2020 ending June 30, 2020, South Africa’s Aveng says its Moolmans contract mining business “showed continued progress on the journey to re-establish the business as a leader in open-cut contract mining operating in Africa.”...

Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has announced that Metalkol RTR, its hydrometallurgical copper and cobalt facility in the DRC, has committed to undergoing the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), a flagship programme of the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI). Metalkol RTR...