Pit wall collapses at Avesoro’s New Liberty mine in Liberia Production volumes will be reduced "for some time", the company said. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 3, 2019 | 3:57 am
Vale expects to mostly finish paying for burst dam by 2021 In securities filings, Vale projected costs from halted operations related to its dam that burst to fall from $3-$4 per tonne of iron ore in the third quarter to $2.5-$3.5 per tonne in the fourth quarter. Reuters | October 2, 2019 | 3:19 pm
Marathon advances Valentine toward prefeasibility An updated resource estimate for Valentine is slated for the fourth quarter. Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 2, 2019 | 3:10 pm
Burst dam at Brazil gold mine leaves two injured, no fatalities The dam is registered under the name of an individual wildcat miner rather than in the name of a mining company. Reuters | October 2, 2019 | 1:56 pm
Top producer says lithium prices to keep falling Oversupply of lithium hydroxide to start easing next year, but spodumene miners won't catch a break soon, says Australia's chief economist. Frik Els | October 2, 2019 | 1:32 pm
Newmont’s new CEO plans to dispense more discipline than cash Newmont shares have trailed its peers, even with gold’s meteoric rise that took the metal to a six-year high of $1,557.11 an ounce last month. Bloomberg News | October 2, 2019 | 1:23 pm
Landslide at gold mine in eastern Congo kills at least 16 Dozens of people die in Congo every year because of old-fashioned and unregulated mining methods that compromise safety. Reuters | October 2, 2019 | 1:19 pm
Iamgold makes new high-grade discovery in West Africa The discovery is located between the company’s Boto project in Senegal to the north and its Diakha-Siribaya project in Mali to the south. Jackson Chen | October 2, 2019 | 11:55 am
Coal India output sinks to record low as monsoons flood mines Coal inventories at the country’s power plants have declined to a nine-month low, spurring higher imports. Bloomberg News | October 2, 2019 | 11:28 am