Tin miner achieves financial and production records
Alphamin Resources Corp. has provided the following production and EBITDA update for the quarter ended June 2020: – Tin production
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VIDEO: Aluminium recycling – How it works
Transforming scrap aluminium at our aluminium recycling plant in Hydro Dormagen, Germany, for use in cars, packaging, electronics and buildings
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Eco-friendly processes to produce “green” aluminium
Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill (GARMCO) has embarked on a transformative role in shaping the climate agenda through the GARMCO Green
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Trident acquires copper royalty over significant asset
Trident Resources Plc, to be renamed Trident Royalties Plc, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Moxico
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Increased advancement for Prieska Copper-Zinc Project
Orion Minerals Limited has announce that mining-focused, private equity group Tembo Capital has confirmed its continued support of Orion through
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Chuquicamata’s copper smelter and refinery closed down
As a preventive measure and given the complex situation that the Antofagasta Region and the city of Calama are experiencing
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Hulamin suffers the loss of R240 million
Hulamin experienced particularly difficult conditions during 2019. Export sales to the United States were disrupted by blockages in our distribution
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Final acceptance awarded for copper rod mill
To expand its production capacity, Jiangxi Copper Company contracted with Southwire Company, LLC, of Carrollton, Georgia, USA, for an SCR
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New bauxite project produces in full swing in Tasmania
Australian Bauxite (ABx) has advised that mining and screening operations are well advanced at its Bald Hill mine near Campbell
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ISAL Smelter may close down
Rio Tinto will conduct a strategic review of the ISAL smelter in Iceland, to determine the operation’s ongoing viability and
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Jubilee secures copper tailings for Sable Refinery
Jubilee Metals Group, a stock traded metals processing company, has announced that it secured the rights to approximately 150 million
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Glencore to sell cobalt to Tesla’s gigafactories
Swiss-based commodities trader and miner Glencore and American electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla have signed a deal, pursuant
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Alcoa begins retrenchments at San Ciprián Aluminium Smelter
Alcoa Corporation, a global giant in bauxite, alumina and aluminium production, has announced that it plans to begin, on 25
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Tesla patents process for high-strength aluminium components
Tesla has submitted a patent that describes a new, more effective cooling process for manufacturing high-strength aluminium components to be
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Hertwich Ecomelt aluminium multi-chamber melting furnace
Otto Fuchs KG supplements its Meinerzhagen casthouse with one Ecomelt-PS150 melting furnace and two tiltable holding and casting furnaces from
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Will cobalt become precious metal?
Will cobalt become precious metal? When people talk about “precious metals,” they’re generally referring to four chemically similar elements on
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COPPER: Deep-south project in Namibia
The Haib Copper project hosts a resource of 850 million tonnes at a grade of 0.31% Cu. In 2003, the
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Tsumeb smelter expansion project
Dundee Precious Metals Tsumeb (DPMT) is proposing to expand its current Tsumeb Smelter in order to increase the copper concentrate
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RUSAL to invest $190m to modernize production of electrodes at SAZ smelter
RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, will invest approximately $190 million in modernizing the production of electrodes at its Sayanogorsk
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Rosh Pinah zinc mine goes digital
Trevali’s Rosh Pinah mine, located at the edge of the Namib Desert, is the first mine to employ digital solutions
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Copper solvent extraction technology for the Democratic Republic of Congo
Finnish technology company Outotec has been awarded a contract by LA SINO-CONGOLAISE DES MINES SA. (hereafter as Sicomines), a joint-venture
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Copper miner says it can improve production and mine life
Orion Minerals’ Prieska Copper-Zinc Project in the Northern Cape, in an updated bankable feasibility study (BFS), shows substantial increases in
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Best aluminium production achieved at Hillside smelter
At its quarterly report ending March 2020, South32, among other results, reports on the record year to date production at
Read moreAluminium smelter threatened by electricity supply
Citizens of Portland in Australia have grown accustomed to living next to a goliath of an aluminium smelter sitting on
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Vedanta to become global leader in zinc
World’s major commodity producer Vedanta Resources has set a tough target to become the world’s biggest producer of zinc. The existing
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