Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition, the man in charge of operations said. The Yanomami, South...
Brazilian miner Vale said on Saturday that it is conducting checks on a dam after a routine inspection identified surface cracks but noted that the structure’s stability conditions remain unchanged. In a securities filing, the company said the issue concerns the...
Rio Tinto has purchased Antipa Minerals’ stake in the Citadel joint venture (JV), expanding its footprint in the Paterson Province of Western Australia. The Citadel JV covers 1200 square kilometres of tenure and comprises the Calibre and Magnum...
Alcoa will divest its stake in the Ma’aden joint venture (JV) to Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) for over $US1 billion. Located in Saudi Arabia, the Ma’aden JV was created in 2009 and comprises the Ma’aden bauxite mine and alumina refinery and the Ma’aden...
The available coking coal stock in its yard, to run the last of its three furnaces, is expected to barely last for five-six days; if production stops it will be the first such instance since the steel plant opened in 1982. As reported in these columns earlier this...
