BHP driven by solid results in metallurgical coal and iron ore
BHP has started the new financial year with a strong first quarter of safety and production performance. Group production rose
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EU imposes duties on Chinese aluminium extrusions imports
The EU Commission has imposed temporary duties ranging 30.4% to 48% on Chinese aluminium extrusion imports. The investigation is expected
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Orion commences high-impact exploration drilling for copper
Orion Minerls has announced that drilling has commenced with two diamond rigs operating at the Kielder Project, located 15km from
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SPACE MINING: NASA’s just sampled Bennu Asteroid
Two hundred million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft was orbiting an asteroid with material from the early solar system
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Ramaphosa’s Recovery Plan – the good, the bad, the indifferent
The best was left for last. If what is promised in the end really happens, we will have a real
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Geologists unravel how rare earth elements form
A team of geologists has helped to solve an age-old mystery about how rare earth element (REE) deposits form underground
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Improvement of fatigue life of aluminium alloys by 25 times
Published in the journal Nature Communications, a research work done by Monash University engineers has demonstrated improvements in the fatigue
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Aluminium: eco-friendly pitch to reduce emissions by 60%
As part of its environmental modernization program, RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, plans to completely switch the reduction area
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Ghana to impose duties on aluminium from China
Ghana International Trade Commission has ruled that aluminium coils and circles from China are being dumped onto the Ghanaian domestic
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Ferrochrome, chromite markets expected to rebalance this year
Ferrochrome and chromium ore markets are expected to rebalance in 2020, after closures and cutbacks in production from major producers
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Endeavour restarts Boungou Gold Mine
Endeavour Mining has announced that mining operations have successfully restarted at its Boungou mine in Burkina Faso, following the mobilization
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Steel rises to the challenges of Industry 4.0
The advent of more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence systems is allowing the steel industry to augment and improve its
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Most precious Rhodium has been a stellar performer
Rhodium has been an investor’s dream over the last nine months. The silvery-white chemical element reached an all-time high of
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Electric cars and Formula E powered by nickel
During the recent ‘battery day’ event held by Tesla, Musk called on resources companies to increase their nickel production, to
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JUBILEE METALS: Update on Project Elephant
As announced on 18 June 2020, Jubilee has secured the rights to approximately 150 million tonnes of copper containing surface
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SA’s mining capitalisation increases by 52% in 2020
In 2020, total mining industry market capitalisation increased to R1,280 billion from R840 billion. This total is a R439 billion
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Jubilee delivers record production and financial performance
Jubilee Metals Group in its operational update for the first three months of H2 2020 (Q3 2020), says that Q3
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Correction in commodity prices expected, especially iron ore
Standard Bank expects to see some moderation in commodity demand when the Chinese local bond issuances come to an end
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Miners and metallurgists are going green
The way businesses of the future will operate is now fundamentally affected by climate change. It is also driving a
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STEEL: Tallest European skyscraper is also most eco-friendly
The ground-breaking Lakhta Centre in Russia is not only the tallest buildings in Europe, it is one of the five
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Insimbi’s best financial quarter in its 50-year history
Insimbi Industrial Holdings, in its summary of the unreviewed consolidated condensed financial results for the six months ended 31 August
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worldsteel releases more optimistic outlook for steel
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) yesterday released an update to its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2020 and 2021. This
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Alphamin reports increased tin recoveries and throughput
Alphamin Resources Corp. reports that run-of-mine volumes processed increased 5% to 96,086 tons for the quarter ended September 2020. Underground
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Kore Potash receives green light to drill at DX Project
Kore Potash plc, the potash development company with 97%-ownership of the Kola and DX Potash Projects in the Sintoukola Basin,
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De Beers’ diamond eighth sales cycle of 2020 at $467m
Anglo American has announced the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auctions) for De Beers’ eighth sales
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Hulamin’s order books approach pre-Covid19 levels
Up to the end of September 2020, Hulamin recorded 497 positive Covid-19 tests. Hulamin management teams have subsequently returned to
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Vedanta Zinc produces 36% less zinc in Q1FY2021
Vedanta Zinc International has reported that total production for the first quarter of FY2021 was 38,000 tonnes, lower by 36%
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ZCCM-IH plans to increase stake in mines
ZCCM-IH (formerly Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines or ZCCM) will take up a more active role as an investor in the
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Chairman’s update on the Toral lead, zinc, silver project
Throughout the last financial year, we have continued to advance Johannesburg-listed Europa Metals Ltd’s wholly-owned Toral lead, zinc, and silver
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Remote monitoring of tank gas storage levels
Air Products’ Tank Monitoring System is a convenient, reliable way to remotely monitor storage tank levels. Not only does this
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