Global uranium supply is expected to increase in the second half of 2010, supported by strong production coming from Kazakhstan and the Ranger and Olympic Dam mines, in Australia. The continued ramp-up of Paladin Energy’s Kayelekera project, in Malawi, would also...
In a widely-applauded move, Argentina’s senate has passed an Act to protect the country’s glaciers, which should curb Barrick’s plan to mine the massive Pascua Lama gold deposit. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10413. Barrick is...
The Guinea government appears to be playing hardball with Rio Tinto over what the latter claims is the world’s largest undeveloped iron ore deposit. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page39?oid=112263&sn=Detail&pid=92730.
The Paraguayan government and aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan will resume meetings in the next few days to discuss the installation of a US$2.5bn aluminum smelter, a press official from the country’s industry and trade ministry (MIC) told BNamericas....
Anglo American Chile has presented an EIA to local environmental regulator Conama for a US$68mn project to process low grade copper waste material currently stockpiled at the Mercedes dump at the Mantos Blancos copper operation in northern region II. See...
Thousands of workers at South Africa’s Kumba Iron Ore mine on Monday embarked on a strike for better wages after pay rise talks collapsed, a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official said. Kumba, a unit of global miner Anglo American, said last week the...
