Sumitomo warns pandemic, oil price fall to hit profit The company suspended operation at its San Cristobal mine in Bolivia and its Ambatovy nickel mine in Madagascar. Reuters | April 8, 2020 | 9:00 am
Rio goes ahead with dividend amid coronavirus uncertainty Chairman Simon Thompson said the company had decided to go ahead with paying the dividend due on April 16. Reuters | April 8, 2020 | 7:55 am
Cornish hits new, high-grade copper mineralization The miner hit the jackpot at the United Downs project in Cornwall. Cecilia Jamasmie | April 8, 2020 | 7:51 am
Discovery releases more high-grade assays from Cordero A 2018 preliminary economic study showed the project could support 29 years of open pit production at 40,000 tonnes per day. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2020 | 3:01 pm
Glencore to shut Zambia copper mines The company is said to have declared force majeure at its Mopani Copper Mines. Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2020 | 12:13 pm
First Quantum halts Cobre Panama over covid-19 death It was reported that several workers at the site had contracted the virus. Jackson Chen | April 7, 2020 | 11:21 am
DeepGreen to make run for battery metals from seafloor Unlike other seafloor miners, the company doesn’t want to drill, blast or dig the bottom of the ocean. Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2020 | 9:55 am
The state of Chinese commodities shows recovery taking hold From oil to copper to coal, China’s gigantic commodities industry is signaling that the first economy to be flattened by the coronavirus is getting closer to a return to normality. Bloomberg News | April 7, 2020 | 9:35 am
Copper belt miners turn to Tanzania as South Africa lockdown hobbles ports South Africa’s strict coronavirus lockdown has caused miners to divert copper from the country’s ports to Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port. Reuters | April 7, 2020 | 9:00 am