查看更多>>摘要：Australia-based BlackEarth Minerals NL is developing its flagship Maniry project in Madagascar in to a world-class graphite producer. The vertically integrated graphite de veloper with advanced mining projects in Madagascar and base metal pros pects - nickel-copper-platinum group elements (PGE) - in Western Australia, acquired the Maniry deposit in March 2018. The deposit is located in southern Madagascar, about 30km from Am-panihy, with roads access to Toliara on the west coast and the Tolagnaro port on the south.
查看更多>>摘要：Over the last decade, Russian firms kept looking at the African continent in order to invest in the extraction and processing of commodities such as manganese, gold, nickel, platinum, dia mond and aluminium, in addition to oil and gas. Following Russia's attack of Ukraine on 24 February, Western countries sanctioned Russian oligarchs, compa nies and banks with links to President Vladimir Putin.
查看更多>>摘要：Emerging developer OreCorp is building momentum as it focuses on delivering first gold in 2024 at its high-grade, 3.1 million ounce Nyanzaga gold project in Tanzania. it's set to be the country's first large-scale gold mine in more than a decade and the first built under the new regu latory regime led by Her Excellency, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took on the top job following John Magufuli's sudden death in March 2021.
查看更多>>摘要：BHP is looking to invest more than US$10 billion to further develop its copper business in Chile, including spending on a new concentrator and leach operation at its Escondida mine, Ragnar Udd, president minerals Ameri cas told delegates at the 2020 CRU World Copper Conference in Santiago, Chile. Udd said the company is looking to continue investing if Chile contin ues to provide the "right conditions", which Udd said are fiscal stability, legal certainty and a clear pathway to per mitting. "We love Chile and we would like to stay here and grow in this coun try, but the right conditions have to be here," he said.
查看更多>>摘要：China is looking to be the partner of choice to develop Bolivia's vast lithium reserves. Four Chinese companies are within a group of firms shortlisted by the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, and state lithium company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), to develop direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology. Bolivia authorised several groups to take samples from its salars, or salt lakes, to develop pilot DLE projects capable of producing lithium-ion-battery-grade lithium hydroxide.
查看更多>>摘要：Is it this time lucky for mining legend Mick Davis, dubbed Mick the Miner in the City after an astonishing track re cord that saw him build up Xstrata and sell it for billions to Glencore in 2013? He's back in the spotlight after his technology and battery minerals in vestment vehicle Vision Blue Resources (VBR) pumped ?25 million into Cornish Metals, a would-be tin producer in the southwest of England.
查看更多>>摘要：Raleigh Finlayson, the newly minted Genesis Minerals chief executive, broke from deeply engrained industry prac tices to address a Resources Rising Stars audience in Perth in April. As he had promised, Finlayson out lined a five year game plan to have Genesis leapfrog its rivals to fill the void between those gold miners with a value of up to A$2 billion and the largest on the exchange with values starting at A$7 billion.
查看更多>>摘要：A common view among bankers and government leaders is that sky-high commodity prices are a function of fi nancial market events such as the near collapse of the London Metal Exchange when a big trader was caught short in a nickel squeeze. That view was evident in comments made last week by the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, who told a meeting in Brussels that price swings in commodity markets that have followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine posed a risk to financial stability.
查看更多>>摘要：Copper prices are at record levels. Ware-house inventories are at record lows. A copper supply deficit is set to widen as electrification demand will eclipse China as the main demand driver in the coming years. Times have never been better for the copper sector, and yet the feeling at the 2022 CRU World Copper conference in Santiago, Chile, in March was subdued. Things were very different the last time conditions for the red metal were so bullish during the commodities su per cycle in the last decade. Compared with the euphoric CRU World Copper Conferences in 2007 and 2008 as cop per approached US$4 per pound, this year's event had a feeling akin to the market being in recession - despite copper being at $4.70/lb.
查看更多>>摘要：Antofagasta aims to continue investing in Chile at its Centineta and Los Pelam bres operations while still looking at international expansion, CEO Ivan Ar-riagada told Mining Journal. In Chile, the company is completing a cycle of investment with the Los Pelambres seawater plant and additional milling capacity 70% complete. It has also recently finished a project at Zaldivar to increase recoveries. Its next big investment decision will be whether to develop a second concentrator at Centinela, once it has a greater line of sight on changes to the fiscal regime and the process to draft a new constitution.
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