One was a furnace supervisor at a different smelter in the park who had been seconded to Tsingshan’s facility, while the other was also employed by a different firm.

Macquarie Group’s analysis of January's purchasing managers' index data suggests the global industrial cycle may be at a turning point.

The funding is intended to support the construction of the second lithium concentrate production plant at the Grota do Cirilo site.

The new resource includes 813 million tonnes of indicated material grading 0.29% nickel equivalent.

The company plans to use graphite concentrate from its Springdale project to feed the plant's downstream processing operations.

As many as half of the 575 lawmakers in parliament have connections with the mining sector, according to the Indonesia Mining Advocacy Network.

The aim is to combine the EU’s high-level policy approach with the US focus on specific projects, Bloomberg sources said.