Bill calls for a 3% royalty on sales of over 12,000 tonnes of copper productions a year and 50,000t/y of lithium.

The partners intend to conduct research into feed materials to use in direct reduction (DR) steelmaking, based on natural gas and hydrogen.

Provincial loan agreement will be used to restart the company's now idled Beaufor gold mine and Beacon mill.

Pure Gold mine, milling facilities, and other critical systems are operating in line with or close to design capacity of 800t per day.

The miner will make a final investment decision on expanding the processing plant at its Mt. Keith nickel mine by the end of the financial year.

The project will help cut carbon emissions by 12% compared with 2020 levels at its Mt. Keith and Leinster nickel operations, where power is currently being generated through diesel and gas turbines.

The diamond is the seventh stone greater than 300 carats dug up at the Botswana operation so far this year.

The diversified miner reported pre-tax profits of $10.1 billion for the six months to June, more than double what it made in 2020 as a whole.

Business combination will create a global mining technology provider with operations from pit to plant.

It has agreed to sell its Paltamo and Rautavaara nickel, zinc, copper and cobalt projects to battery metals miner Metals One.