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The Trump administration is throwing a lifeline to the massive Pebble mine planned near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, as regulators move toward undoing Obama-era environmental restrictions that have thwarted the project. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will resume considering on Wednesday whether to withdraw the proposed water pollution restrictions that have effectively stalled the project since they were outlined in 2014, said a senior EPA official who asked for anonymity to discuss the matter before it is public. Читать дальше...

There are indications that Aim-listed Katoro Gold’s 75%-owned Haneti nickel project, in Tanzania, could host a chonolith-type nickel sulphide deposit. The company would, therefore, push ahead with preparations for a fully funded drilling programme at the two key targets, Mihanza Hill and Mwaka Hill, where it hoped to determine the existence of disseminated or massive sulphide mineralisation and define a future larger drilling programme, Katoro executive chairperson Louis Coetzee said in a statement on Wednesday.

Moya Greene has resigned from the board of diversified miner Rio Tinto with immediate effect, owing to time constraints. The Canadian national, who previously headed Britain’s Royal Mail, said in a statement announcing her resignation on Wednesday that the time commitment to serve on the Rio Tinto board had proven more considerable than she had expected.

For the clearest sign yet that renewable energy has gone mainstream, consider this: Clean energy resources supplied more of America’s electricity than coal for the first time ever in April. Hydropower dams, solar panels and wind turbines generated almost 68.5-million megawatt-hours of power in April, eclipsing the 60-million that coal produced that month, Energy Information Administration (EIA) data released late Tuesday show. That’s the most clean power the US has ever made – and the least coal it has burned for power in years.

Vancouver-based Leagold Mining has initiated the expansion of its Los Filos mine, in Mexico, following the closing of $400-million in financing that it secured for a phased growth plan to become a 600 000 oz/y to 700 000 oz/y producer. The company previously announced a tentative schedule for the 2.5-year expansion plan and this week reaffirmed that the Bermejal underground development would start in the third quarter of this year.

The Camino Rojo oxide project, in Zacatecas, Mexico, is a “fantastic opportunity to develop a quality mine”, TSX-listed Orla CEO Jason Simpson said on Tuesday, announcing the results of the feasibility study for the project that once belonged to Goldcorp. The study, prepared by a team of experts led by Kappes Cassiday and Associates, considers near-surface openpit mining of 44-million tonnes of oxide and traditional ore at a throughput rate of 18 000 t/d.

Chilean copper miner Antofagasta said on Tuesday it would ask regulators for more time to answer questions about an environmental impact study for its Zaldivar mine, which draws water from Chile's lithium-rich Atacama salt flat. Chilean regulators last year delayed their review of Zaldivar's environmental study amid rising concerns over dwindling water supplies at Atacama. Regulators recently reopened the process.

While underground mines are unquestionably safer than they once were, accidents and injuries associated with mobile machinery remain a primary concern.

Indonesian coal miners said upcoming regulatory changes are putting added pressure on their businesses amid depressed prices and rising competition from other energy sources. The Indonesian government is in the process of amending coal mining rules to enforce implementation of a 2009 mineral law that require miners to convert their mining permits to a licensing system upon the expiration of their current contracts.

Base metals developer Superior Lake Resources is hoping to raise A$3.78-million through a share placement to professional and sophisticated investors. The ASX-listed company on Wednesday said that it has received subscriptions for more than 216.3-million shares, priced at 1.75c each, with the company’s directors subscribing for more than 11.4-million shares.

The health of some of the hundreds of mine workers who are staging a sit-in underground at Lanxess mine outside Rustenburg was deteriorating, said a worker who spoke to a union representative using a two-way radio on Wednesday. The worker was speaking from underground to National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) shop steward, Kgaratji Tselana.