Local consortium proposes to develop Pakistan copper and gold mine after arbitration case

Charge is due to due to cuts in the US Federal corporate income tax rate, the world’s biggest mining company said.

Rio Tinto had already earned a 75% interest in the C-4-5-6 property, and it was expected to exercise its option to acquire full interest by 2019.

A worker died on Monday night while clearing a blocked ore pass at the company’s Driefontein gold operation in South Africa.

Andes Iron appealed an August 2017 decision that forbade its copper and iron ore project from going forward.

The Toronto-based miner is carrying out a comprehensive environmental remediation program at its Iskut project.

The firm is also trying to halve use of cobalt in batteries from around 20% by raising the proportion of nickel, and it will start researching on development of nearly cobalt-free batteries.

The miner has also scrapped its 2017 dividend after full-year core earnings fell by more than a third because of a ban on unprocessed mineral exports in Tanzania.

The U.S. Forest Service signed off on exploration for copper, gold and other minerals on 900 federal acres that lie just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Southwest Washington.

"The aim is to secure the supply all the way down to the level of the mine, for 10 years."