Use tech jobs to attract women to industry, Future Minerals forum panel says
The industry needs to encourage mentors, adjust mindsets and offer technology jobs to boost the level of women from just 8% of the global mining workforce.
The industry needs to encourage mentors, adjust mindsets and offer technology jobs to boost the level of women from just 8% of the global mining workforce.
Copper stocks in LME registered warehouses stand at 83,325 tonnes are already low.
The industry is flush with cash after last year’s record profits, while boards and managers believe they have the support of key investors after promising to avoid the reckless overspending of the last cycle.
A recent Harvard study indicates 81% of institutional investors in the US and 83.6% in Europe plan to increase their ESG allocations over the next two years.
Should all go to plan, Reko Diq will be the first copper-gold mine in the country’s Balochistan province.
Iron ore futures jumped almost 60% from the end of October through last Friday.
Activists continue to block police attempts to demolish the village of Luetzerath to make way for the expansion of an opencast coal mine.
The market for electric two-, three-wheelers and microcars will reach around $180 billion by 2043, IDTechEx forecasts.
The campsite at Glencore’s Antapaccay copper mine in Peru was vandalized by a group of people protesting against the country’s new president.
MMG Ltd’s Las Bambas copper mines halted activities because of unrest at another nearby mining site.