by Gordon Barratt | Nov 19, 2020 | News
American-listed Sierra Metals has announced the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) looking at the expansion of its Yauricocha mine, in Peru, and has said that it is also considering growth options at the Cusi mine, in Mexico. At Yauricocha, Sierra has...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 19, 2020 | News
ANU PhD scholar Xingshuo Huang holding the diamond anvil used to create diamonds at room temperature. Image: Jamie Kidston/ANU. A team of scientists led by the Australian National University and RMIT University have created two types of diamonds in the lab at room...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 19, 2020 | News
Image: Capricorn Metals Capricorn Metals has awarded a contract to Way Electrical for plant electrical installation at the Karlawinda gold project in Western Australia. Capricorn stated that this was the final significant construction contract for the build of the...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 19, 2020 | News
The Bauxite mining in the Cockpit Country is anticipated to render a game-changing boost to the economy of Jamaica, despite potential long-term deforestation, at least in the short term, if the Government allows Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II (NJBP II) to mine...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 19, 2020 | News
The trend for global financial institutions and companies to divest from coal is gathering pace. Though some Chinese institutions have responded verbally to this, policy changes have so far been lacking. On 9 September, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 18, 2020 | News
A hearing between Brazilian miner Vale and the government of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state ended on Tuesday without the two sides agreeing on a settlement over a Jan. 2019 disaster in which a Vale dam burst and killed 270 people. The mining waste dam burst in the...
