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The chief executive of Polish miner KGHM expects copper prices to fluctuate around $6 000/t the end of the year, he said on Wednesday. "I do not see any reasons for a radical deterioration in price parameters. I think one should expect the copper price to oscillate around $6,000 per tonne by the end of the year," Marcin Chludzinski told Reuters.

Global diversified miner Anglo American has appointed nonexecutive director Nolitha Fakude as chairperson of Anglo American South Africa’s board, effective September 1. She succeeds Norman Mbazima, who announced his retirement in April.

Chilean miner Antofagasta reported a nearly 22% jump in copper output in the second quarter, helped by an expansion at its flagship Los Pelambres mine in the central part of the country. The FTSE 100 company reduced its annual forecast for net cash cost, a measure of cost of production per pound of copper produced, to $1.25/lb as it expects to benefit from a weaker Chilean peso and higher by-product prices.

Aim- and TSX-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation has completed the sinking of the new Central Shaft at its 49%-owned Blanket gold mine, in Zimbabwe. The Central Shaft project started in early 2015 and has cost the company $44-million. It has been sunk to a depth of more than 1 200 m.

Two Canadian mines will pilot University of British Columbia- (UBC-) led research that combats greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by trapping carbon dioxide in mine tailings, the waste left over from ore mining. The technology, the UBC says, could drastically reduce the GHG emissions of mining operations and result in the world’s first GHG neutral mine.

A few years after coming as a teenager to this Ghanaian town to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry his sweetheart and build a house with a porch, to which he would later add a flat-screen TV and satellite dish. So when a town elder invited a doctor to talk to miners about the hazards of wildcat mining, "nobody listened," said the 36-year-old, sitting on a wooden bench on his porch in a lush banana grove.

The gold-equivalent production of Russian gold miner Polymetal grew by 19% year-on-year in the second quarter to 384 000 oz, bolstered by the new Kyzyl mine, in Kazakhstan, operating at full capacity. The group’s gold production increased by 30% year-on-year to 302 000 oz, including 81 000 oz of gold from Kyzyl. Silver production reduced by 11% to 6-million ounces on the back of asset disposals.

Brazilian miner Vale has been authorised to partially resume dry processing operations at its Vargem Grande complex, which should add five-million tonnes to annual production, the company said in a securities filing on Tuesday. Brazil's mining regulatory agency had ordered Vale to halt operations at Vargem Grande in February to guarantee the stability of its dams. Vale reaffirmed its guidance for iron ore and pellets sales at 307-million to 332-million tonnes in 2019.

ASX-listed Kalium Lakes is hoping to raise A$72-million through an institutional placement and an accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer to fund the construction of its Beyondie sulphate of potash (SOP) project, in Western Australia, as well as the working capital to first production. Kalium on Wednesday announced a share placement of up to 35-million new shares to institutional investors, to raise an initial A$17.5-million. The share placement will be priced at 50c a share, representing... Читать дальше...

Copper miner Sandfire Resources has reported a strong quarter in the three months to June, with production up slightly on the previous quarter. Copper production in the March quarter reached 18 519 t, up from the 16 888 t reported in the previous quarter, with full-year production recorded at 69 394 t.

Mining and transport firm Grupo Mexico said on Tuesday that it does not expect its operations to be impacted by the partial closing of its Guaymas facility on the Gulf of California. Mexico's environmental prosecutor Profepa said on Saturday that it had ordered the partial and temporary closure of Grupo Mexico’s facility after the company spilled sulfuric acid on the coast of the gulf.