- 1. Philippines implements new nickel mining curbs
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- In a new environment protection drive, Philippines has announced that it will limit the land that miners can develop at any given time. President Rodrigo Duterte. Source: Pexels As ...
- Created on 14 September 2018
- 2. Total wins Newcrest Lihir Gold Mine mining contract
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- ... said that the contract strengthens Total’s existing global working relationship with Newcrest. “We believe our local presence in PNG and our track record of transitioning complex sites in remote environments ...
- Created on 14 September 2018
- 3. Lithium: Australia’s new success story
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- ... iron-ore success story, as well as mirror the success of Australia’s aluminium industry which has made an art of turning the country’s rich bauxite resources into localised downstream, value-adding smelting ...
- Created on 07 September 2018
- 4. Cleveland-Cliffs completes sale of its Asia Pacific iron ore assets
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- Cleveland-based iron ore mining company Cleveland-Cliffs has closed the sale of its Asia Pacific iron ore assets to Mineral Resources. With the transaction, Cliffs’ previously disclosed costs of closing ...
- Created on 31 August 2018
- 5. Change in Australian government’s leadership welcomed by mining sector
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- ... This includes a competitive investment environment and less red tape”, commented Tania Constable, Chief Executive Officer, Minerals Council of Australia. She called for lower business input costs such ...
- Created on 31 August 2018
- 6. CSIRO's cyanide-free gold showcases non-toxic solution
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- ... d production, but producers are facing increasingly tough regulations that prevent or restrict its use due to environmental and health concerns. In response to recent spills of toxic cyanide, several region ...
- Created on 31 August 2018
- 7. Sustainable management of mine closures on the region’s agenda
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- ... hat non-sustainable mining not only poses severe environmental pollution, but also yields negative social impacts and investor backlash. An integral part of mining operations also includes the closure ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 8. Earthquakes, market-quakes, and quakes from within: the sounds of change
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- ... cleaner and more environmentally accountable practices up the corporate agenda of many mining companies. In this issue we explore the current shifts driven by ASEAN in tackling the serious issue of sustainable ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 9. Planned AU$69 million Australian tungsten mine promises to be a major economic boost
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- ... are targeting first production by early in 2020,” Mr Billing said. The project will operate as a fly-in fly-out operation. Thor has already received environmental approval from the Northern Territory’s ...
- Created on 24 August 2018
- 10. Donlin Gold project receives record of decision and major Federal permits
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- ... engagement and environmental stewardship.” “The permitting process for the Donlin Gold project was very comprehensive and thorough,” said Greg Lang, NOVAGOLD’s President and Chief Executive Officer. ...
- Created on 17 August 2018
- 11. Coal mine blast kills four in southern China
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- ... The accident comes not long after a blast at an iron ore mining project in Liaoning that killed 11 people in June. According to Guizhou Energy Administration file, the coal mine was ordered to rectif ...
- Created on 10 August 2018
- 12. BHP settles US Samarco class action
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- ... of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc between 25 September 2014 and 30 November 2015 in relation to the Samarco dam failure on 5 November 2015. The Samrco iron ore joint venture (JV) between ...
- Created on 10 August 2018
- 13. Japan’s Mitsui & Co secures Hawsons off-take
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- Blue-chip Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co., Ltd has secured off-take from Carpentaria’s Hawsons Iron Project in two-stage financing package. The Hawsons Iron Project is located ...
- Created on 10 August 2018
- 14. AU$2.8 million Australian Government research grant for Kapunda Project
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- The Australian Government Ministry for Science, Jobs and Innovation has offered Environmental Copper Recovery SA (ECR) research funding of AU$2,851,303, over a 30-month period, for the Kapunda In-Situ ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 15. Core Exploration reports improved recovery of high-grade lithium at Grants
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- ... low iron and low in other impurities,” said Mr Biggins. “These new improved grades and recoveries in the recent testwork are likely to have a significantly positive affect on economics of the project ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 16. Rio Tinto approves initial funding for its first intelligent mine in the Pilbara
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- Rio Tinto has approved $146 million of funding to undertake initial work at the Koodaideri iron ore project in Western Australia, ahead of a final investment decision expected by the end of the year. ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 17. Philippines lifts two-year ban on mining exploration
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- ... of some prospects in the world's No. 2 nickel ore exporter. Even though this is a second mining policy to be amended in recent months, Philippine environment ministers confirm that a ban on new minin ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 18. Chinese eye off AU$480 million SA copper mine
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- ... anomalies in the area. The project was also the first test of a larger theory that iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) style mineralisation could exist underneath the thin cover rocks on the Yorke Peninsula ...
- Created on 03 August 2018
- 19. Duterte takes another aim at mining in his SONA speech
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- ... nation’s natural resources – a “wealth to be tapped for the benefit of all generations”. “My policy in the utilisation of these resources is non-negotiable: the protection of the environment must be ...
- Created on 27 July 2018
- 20. BHP faces Samarco class action
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- BHP has been served with a class action in the Federal Court in Victoria (Australia) over the fatal Samarco iron ore mine disaster in Brazil. The class action, led by law firm Phi Finney McDonald, ...
- Created on 27 July 2018