Новости за 16.07.2019

Thousands of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) in California obtain their hydrogen with the help of platinum from a growing number of hydrogen refuelling stations that have been established with effective government help. Independent hydrogen consultant Dr Jose Lopez Gallego, who is in South Africa to speak at Nedbank CIB Research’s FCEV conference, works with a company that builds the platinum-catalysed electrolysers that produce hydrogen from water with the help of sun-generated electricity.

Russian diamond miner Alrosa has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with Zimbabwe national diamond miner Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) to develop diamond deposits in the Southern African country. The agreement was signed by Alrosa deputy CEO Vladimir Marchenko and ZCDC chairpersonn Killian Ukama in the presence of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Alrosa CEO Sergey Ivanov.   According to the terms of the agreement, ALROSA gets a 70% controlling stake for the ...

Exploration and mining company Canyon Coal’s proposed Palmietkuilen openpit coal mine, in Springs, Gauteng, is in the final stages of regulatory approval and the company hopes to begin mining before the end of the year. Canyon Coal is a subsidiary of mining investment company Menar.

TSX- and NYSE-listed Platinum Group Metals (PTM) will, during this month, submit its definitive feasibility study for the Waterberg project for a peer review by engineering firm SRK Consulting, before publishing it before the end of the third quarter. The company has also filed a mining right application and an application for an environmental authorisation, following successful stakeholder consultations.

Mineral processing company Multotec has expanded its technology division’s research and development (R&D) capabilities with a range of specialised facilities. The equipment Multotec uses for testwork includes laboratory-scale, wet, high-intensity magnetic separators, cyclone rigs, filtration equipment, centrifuges, spiral rigs and a screening research rig.

Kazakh entrepreneur Kenes Rakishev said on Tuesday he had sold his stake in gold miner Petropavlovsk to Russian billionaire Roman Trotsenko and would invest the proceeds in a cobalt and nickel project he aims to list in Hong Kong. Rakishev bought his shares in late 2017 when he said Petropavlovsk was a distressed stock.

NYSE- and TSX-listed Endeavour Silver has acquired exploration and exploitation rights to two properties adjacent to the Guanacevi mine in Durango state, Mexico. The 15-ha El Porvenir property sits adjacent to the operating Porvenir Norte mine and covers the updip extension of the Porvenir Norte orebody

Aim-listed investment group Armadale Capital on Tuesday confirmed that commercialisation plans for the Mahenge Liandu graphite project, in Tanzania, continued to advance, with initial metallurgical testwork in line with expectations. Armadale noted that ore was crushed up to 1 mm then put through an initial rougher flotation circuit, which achieved up to 95% initial recovery levels.

University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD student, Louie van Schalkwyk, has spent the last three years investigating the zoning policy procedures of three municipalities –Umhlathuze, in KwaZulu-Natal; Sol Plaatje, in the Northern Cape; and the City of Cape Town, in the Western Cape –  to determine whether their policies and procedures are suitable for the kinds of mining activities that take place in their jurisdictions. Van Schalkwyk’s topic developed and changed substantially over time, but was inspired... Читать дальше...

Venezuela sold about $40-million worth of gold last week, defying numerous US sanctions that threaten to cut off Nicolas Maduro’s autocratic regime, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The central bank sold nearly one ton of gold July 12, lowering Venezuela’s dollar reserves to a near three-decade low of $8.1 billion, the people said. While sanctions increasingly cut off Venezuela from the global financial system, Maduro has been selling gold to firms in places such as the United Arab Emirates and Turkey... Читать дальше...

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has completed the sale of its interest in the Rössing uranium mine in Namibia to China National Uranium Corporation (CNUC). The two companies in November of last year struck an agreement under which Rio would divest of its 68.62% stake in the project in exchange for $106.5-million in cash.

Major BHP has moved to reduce its CO2 emissions, releasing the world’s first bulk carrier tender for liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled transport for up to 27-million tonnes of its iron-ore. The miner said that introducing LNG-fuelled ships into BHP’s maritime supply chain will eliminate nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide emissions and significantly reduce CO2 emissions along the busiest bulk transport route globally.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has warned of costs blow-outs and delays to its Oyu Tolgoi underground project, in Mongolia. The miner on Tuesday said that capital spend to bring the copper project into production is expected to range between $6.5-billion and $7.2-billion, an increase of between $1.2-billion and $1.9-billion compared with the previous cost estimate of $5.3-billion.