Rio Tinto didn’t inform cave blast owners of other mine plans Rio CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques faced an Australian Senate inquiry after the miner in late May legally destroyed sacred caves in Pilbara region. Reuters | August 7, 2020 | 7:56 am
Codelco to restart projects beginning next week The miner had been forced to delay several mine expansion projects. Reuters | August 6, 2020 | 2:53 pm
Arctic wastewater dump near Russia’s Norilsk was toxic, says Greenpeace Water samples taken in Russia’s Arctic at the site of a wastewater dump by mining giant contained 50 times the permitted level of toxic substances, said the environmental group. Reuters | August 6, 2020 | 9:22 am
Barrick considers switching primary stock listing to NYSE Company is weighing moving its main listing from Toronto to New York, the company’s chief executive said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Reuters | August 6, 2020 | 9:13 am
Albemarle’s quarterly profit drops 45% as lithium sales slow Sales dropped across all its divisions. Reuters | August 5, 2020 | 3:17 pm
South Africa’s diamond polishers look to lockdown lovers to add shine South African firm Nungu Diamonds said its custom-made jewellery sales have grown 60% since country imposed a strict lockdown. Reuters | August 5, 2020 | 12:37 pm
Chile’s top copper miners boost June output Codelco raised production by 2.5% from June 2019, to 131,900 tonnes. Reuters | August 5, 2020 | 8:01 am
Miners need more engineers to meet new tailings dam safety standard More than a third of the world’s tailings dams are at high risk of causing catastrophic damage to nearby communities if they crumble. Reuters | August 5, 2020 | 7:55 am
BNDES raises $1.5 billion from sale of Vale shares The share sale reduced the development bank's stake in the company to 3.7% from 6.3% Reuters | August 4, 2020 | 4:03 pm
Peru copper and gold output nosedives in H1 2020 Country reported that its production of copper plunged 20.4% in the first half of 2020. Reuters | August 4, 2020 | 9:48 am
Congo to suspend tax exemption for mining imports Africa's top copper producer had exempted mining companies from paying VAT on imports since 2016 to help them during a commodity price downturn. Reuters | August 4, 2020 | 8:19 am
Fire kills worker at Nornickel power plant A fire broke out briefly due to a short circuit at Norilsk Nickel's power station in the Arctic. Reuters | August 4, 2020 | 7:53 am