South Africa’s finance ministry has appointed a consultant to come up with a plan by August to allow utility Eskom to accept-billions in loans designed to help it cut its carbon emissions when the government has blocked it from taking on new debt. Wealthy...
Major miner BHP has named three organisations as recipients of its grants program aimed at developing the Australian blue carbon market. BHP’s Blue Carbon Breakthrough Grant Program launched in June 2022 and aims to provide funding and support to emerging...
Anglo American and Jiangxi Copper Company have joined forces to create sustainable value chains in the copper industry. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Jiangxi Copper headquarters in Nanchang, China. Under the MoU, Anglo American...
Zinc prices climbed to a three-week high on Wednesday after Swedish miner Boliden said it will suspend production at Europe’s largest zinc mine in Ireland within the next month because of “unsustainable financial losses”. Benchmark zinc was the...
The insolvent St Lawrence fluorspar mine, in Newfoundland, has a new owner and could reopen before the end of the year. Luxembourg-headquartered African Minerals Exploration and Development Funds (AMED Funds), through a newly created subsidiary called...
