Новости за 27.06.2019

Ever wondered where that sparkly stone on your finger was dug up? Who polished it and where? The world’s top diamond producer wants to answer all your questions. Russia’s Alrosa PJSC is rolling out a program that will allow jewelry buyers to track their diamond’s history in detail, using an identity number and electronic and video passports, as part of efforts to boost demand for the company’s products and appeal to younger customers. Alrosa has selected an initial 2 000 polished diamonds for the program... Читать дальше...

Glencore said at least 19 illegal miners were killed when part of a mine collapsed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The workers entered the mine without permission and put their own lives at risk by digging at the Kamoto industrial site, one of the world’s biggest cobalt mines, Glencore said in a statement. There are possibly more unconfirmed fatalities, and a search and rescue operation is ongoing.

Exxaro Resources CEO Mxolisi Mgojo is not “too worried” about the expected 5% decline in the miner's coal production for the first half of this year, as he expects the company will meet its full year targets. The company on Wednesday attributed the expected decline in its coal output to reduced demand from State-owned power utility Eskom.

Diversified miner Vedanta Resources says Lusaka High Court presiding judge Justice Annes Banda-Bobo on Wednesday granted it an order to stay the powers of the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) provisional liquidator to sell or dispose of KCM’s assets through public tender, or to make any arrangements with creditors. This relates to court proceedings launched by the State to have KCM, in which Vedanta holds an 80% interest and State-owned ZCCM-IH 20%, wound up.

Indigenous groups in Peru are turning to the courts with a new legal strategy for keeping mining and oil projects off their land, racking up victories that could make it harder for companies to secure permits in the major minerals producer. Native communities from the Peruvian Amazon and the Andes have filed at least eight lawsuits against the government since passage of the so-called "prior consultation" law in 2011, which gives them the right to weigh in on official decisions that could affect them, according to judicial documents.

Central- and Eastern Africa-focused miner Red Rock Resources has started work on identifying and assessing old drill cores from previous exploration activity at the Musonoi joint venture asset adjacent to Glencore’s Katanga mining assets, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company on Thursday said the work was the first part of a process of validating the results from historic drilling to bring the historic noncompliant resource to the modern disclosure standard – the Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant standard.

Aim-listed Edenville Energy has started mining operations at the new northern area of its flagship Rukwa coal project, in Tanzania, and has also recorded a number of other recent project developments. This start of mining follows the completion of the work carried out on the haul road which runs from the plant to the northern area.

After 18 months of often contentious labor talks with the United Steelworkers union at an aluminum smelter in Quebec, Alcoa has threatened to idle the entire facility if workers don’t sign what it’s calling a “final offer". Aluminerie de Bécancour, a joint venture in which Alcoa controls a 75% stake and Rio Tinto Group owns the rest, made a proposal that expires on July 5. If it’s not signed, the already-curtailed production will be totally suspended, Pittsburgh-based Alcoa said Wednesday in a statement.

Aim-listed Alien Metals, previously Arian Silver, has confirmed the presence of gold at the Donovan 2 concession, in Zacateca, Mexico, lifting the company’s share price by 20%. CEO Peter Taylor commented on Thursday that the presence of gold at Donovan 2 came as no surprise, given that the Minera Frisco El Coronel gold mine was within 10 km of the project.

The share price of ASX-listed Argosy Minerals increased by more than 5% at the close of business on Thursday after the company announced the start of lithium pilot plant operations at its Rincon lithium project, in Argentina. Argosy has started continuous industrial-scale pilot plant lithium processing trial run operations, which the company said would ensure a smooth transition to regular pilot plant lithium carbonate production, which is set to start in early July, and which will produce 99.5% lithium carbonate product.

ASX-listed TNG has inked a binding heads of agreement with rail operator Genesee & Wyoming Australia to provide rail haulage services for the Mt Peake vanadium/titanium/iron project, in the Northern Territory. The agreement covers the transport of magnetite concentrate produced at the Mt Peake mine site from the proposed Adnera rail siding to the TIVAN processing facility in Darwin.

A recent Constitutional Court ruling about a proposed referendum in the Ecuador province where copper/gold developer SolGold’s significant Cascabel project is located has made it clear that the future of mining will be determined by that country’s federal government, the LSE- and TSX-listed miner said on Thursday. SolGold said that the ruling highlighted that it was unconstitutional to ask inhabitants of certain provinces about the matters relevant to other provinces, and that mining was considered a matter of national interest... Читать дальше...