Forget rare earths, boron is the critical mineral to track
Two companies mine 85% of all boron. China holds a near monopoly on downstream processing. Now a California mine wants to break open this opaque market.
Two companies mine 85% of all boron. China holds a near monopoly on downstream processing. Now a California mine wants to break open this opaque market.
Power supply to the Mexican project is not “at a steady state”, but it should improve in Q4, when the miner expects to begin sales.
The $2bn project is part of a planned expansion of the Yanacocha gold mine in Peru.
Dispute is over the deadline of the US partner achieving milestones to get a 25% stake in Kachi lithium project in Argentina.
In 2020, SQM committed to a 50% reduction in the brine it pumps to mine lithium in the vast Atacama salt flat.
It will be Brazil's first large gold producer to have eliminated all upstream tailings at its assets in Minas Gerais and Goiás states.
President Nicolas Maduro has been striking deals with bigger miners, seeking more production and more revenue for the treasury.
Chile’s Center for National Studies of Alternative Development reports that while private mining paid $3.5 billion in taxes, Codelco paid $5.3 billion.
Named Changesite-(Y), it was described by the state-run Xinhua news agency as a kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal.
The Frias underground mine on Outcrop Silver and Gold’s (TSXV: OCG; US-OTC: OCGSF) Santa Ana land package in Colombia produced 7.8 million […]