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MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Mining profits reach $230 billion a year, topped only by oil & gas, pharma; Lithium prices continue to soar – up 88% in 2021; Massive new port could give Vale back iron ore crown.

MINING.com Editor | March 19, 2021 | 12:49 pm

Home: Aluminum rattled by signs of “green” disruption in China

Shanghai aluminum prices have this week powered to their highest…

Reuters | March 19, 2021 | 9:58 am

Global nickel surplus shrinks in January

The global nickel market surplus shrank to 8,400 tonnes in…

Reuters | March 19, 2021 | 8:03 am

Papua New Guinea’s Ok Tedi mine suspends operations

State-owned company will suspend copper mining for two weeks from…

Reuters | March 18, 2021 | 8:56 am

RANKED: World’s top 10 nickel projects – 2021

No. 1 is a deep sea polymetallic project with a…

MINING.com Editor | March 17, 2021 | 3:05 pm

De Beers has just sold largest amount of rough diamonds in a year

The world's top diamond producer sold $720 million of rough gems at its January offering as retailers restocked after the holidays.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 24, 2017 | 4:55 am

Vancouver junior inks $1 billion a year potash deal

Encanto closes deal to supply minimum 5m tonnes of potash per year to Indian farmers for the next 20 years.

Frik Els | January 18, 2017 | 4:15 pm

First shipment of iron ore from Vale’s new S11D mine en route to Asia

The company has loaded 26,500 tonnes of iron ore onto three ships at the company's port of Ponta de Madeira.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2017 | 8:09 am

Strike ends at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine

Company to launch probe into the causes of the illegal sit-in of nearly 48 hours.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 13, 2017 | 3:27 am

Private capital rotating into mining and metals

Private capital funds raised $2.1 billion for mining and metals investment in 2016 – this year 13 funds are targeting $10 billion says new study.

Frik Els | January 11, 2017 | 4:34 pm

World Bank on a Trump economy and commodities

World Bank's 2017 outlook says US impact on commodity markets diminished, but it's still number 1 for oil and number 2 in copper, aluminum and lead.

Frik Els | January 10, 2017 | 8:48 pm

Coking coal price crashes through $200

Coking coal takes 6% tumble on Tuesday for a $120 a tonne decline over just six weeks.

Frik Els | January 10, 2017 | 12:18 pm

Erdene new gold zone at Mongolia Bayan Khundii project larger than expected

Bayan Khundii project went from greenfield prospect to being Erdene’s flagship asset in roughly nine months.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 10, 2017 | 10:25 am

World’s top uranium producer Kazakhstan to cut output by 10%

Analysts qualified the move as a “game changer.”

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 10, 2017 | 7:41 am

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