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China’s top aluminium firms gather to address price slump – sources

The major producers will talk about what they can do to support the market, if there's a possibility to do further curtailments.

Reuters | December 19, 2018 | 10:11 am

Guinea bauxite miner to build new railway in $3B deal

The 135-kilometer (84-mile) railway, which will link mining operations to a river terminal, will cost an estimated $1.2 billion and is expected to start operations in 2022.

Bloomberg News | November 27, 2018 | 10:10 am

Rio Tinto sells Kitimat wharf to LNG Canada for $576 million

LNG Canada is a joint venture of Shell, Petronas, PetroChina, Mitsubishi and Kogas.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 12, 2018 | 2:12 pm

Brazil’s Votorantim profit falls despite higher revenues

Meanwhile, Nexa Resources, a unit of Votorantim, has just approved a $392 million capital expenditure in a zinc mining project in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

Reuters | November 10, 2018 | 8:53 pm

Abundant aluminium stocks and low prices conceal tight market

Aluminium is a metal key for the transport and packaging industries but at current prices about 40% of the world's aluminium production is losing money.

Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 10:20 am

Japan’s Sumitomo Metal cuts FY profit forecast on lower metal prices

Sumitomo Metal cut its full-year forecast, blaming lower-than-expected metal prices amid the U.S.-Sino trade spat, and reduced nickel output.

Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 9:32 am

Australia state to roll out new mine rehabilitation rules

Queensland state is set to unveil proposed resource regulations that will require miners to pay into an "insurance fund" for the remediation of old mines.

Reuters | November 8, 2018 | 9:21 am

China’s booming alumina exports held steady in October – Chalco president

China this year has been exporting unusually high volumes of alumina, a substance used to make aluminium.

Reuters | November 7, 2018 | 11:35 am

Every US metal producer is down for 2018, despite tariffs

Companies in metals and mining have been hit especially hard amid concern that the rising trade frictions from the tariffs have helped crimp economic growth.

Bloomberg News | November 1, 2018 | 2:41 pm

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