Spartan Resources has already exceeded its latest record for deep intercepting at its newly discovered Pepper prospect in Western Australia. According to Spartan, the new deepest intercept, 30.79 metres (m) at 12.12 grams per tonne of gold (g/t) from a...
Rio Tinto will soon be a 73.5 per cent owner of the Boyne Island aluminium smelter in Gladstone, Queensland, thanks to a deal with Mitsubishi Corporation. The deal will see Rio acquire Mitsubishi’s 11.65 per cent interest in Boyne Smelters (BSL), which owns...
Codelco, the copper giant that’s about to become a major lithium player, delivered some cautious guidance on the timing of a cleaner, faster way to extract the battery metal in northern Chile. A week after signing contracts to take a majority stake in SQM’s sprawling...
Some of the world’s major economies want to finalise a plan ahead of this year’s UN climate summit to halt new private sector funding for coal projects, five sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. If approved, the draft...
Ghana’s gold production rose 8.3% to four-million ounces in 2023, data from the Ghana Chamber of Mines showed on Friday. The growth was driven primarily by expansion in the output of small-scale miners, which was sufficient to offset a decline in large-scale...
A plan to kick off a partnership between Chilean state miner Codelco and the world’s No. 2 lithium producer SQM is on track for next year despite a potential challenge from a major SQM shareholder, China’s Tianqi, Codelco...
