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Nearly half of global mining and metals executives rank licence to operate as the biggest risk to their business for the second year in a row, as stakeholder pressure builds and the ethical investing tide swells. This is according to the latest EY business risk and opportunities survey, in which 44% of executives who participated put puts licence to operate at the top of the yearly list.

Nasdaq- and ASX-listed Piedmont Lithium plans to start construction on its lithium hydroxide chemical project, in North Carolina, in the US, early in 2021. CEO Keith Phillips tells Mining Weekly Online that construction should take between 12 and 18 months to complete and will start once the company’s permitting and feasibility processes have been finalised.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said it had filed a court case on Wednesday against manganese and chrome producer Samancor Chrome relating to alleged fraud. "The company is stealing from the workers," said AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa on the sidelines of a mining conference in Johannesburg.

Dual-listed Horizonte Minerals has appointed Pedro Rodrigues dos Reis in a nonboard position as project director to lead the construction of the Araguaia ferronickel project, in Brazil. Rodrigues is a civil engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in capital infrastructure projects in the mining industry, mainly in Brazil, Chile and Peru.

London-listed Hochschild Mining is expanding into a market it believes offers exponential growth opportunities – rare earths. The miner announced on Wednesday that it bought the 93.8% of the BioLantanidos ionic clay rare earth deposit that it did not already own for a consideration of $56.3-million.

Republican US lawmakers this week urged President Donald Trump's administration to ease restrictions on uranium mining on federal lands, as a Cabinet-level committee prepares recommendations this month for boosting domestic nuclear fuel production. "We strongly encourage you to make improved access to federal lands with high-grade uranium deposits a top priority," according to the September 30 letter from 27 Western state Republican senators and Congress members to Trump's national security and... Читать дальше...

Global diversified miner Anglo American CE Mark Cutifani has been inducted into the South African Mining Hall of Fame for his contribution to the industry over the last 12 years. Anglo American South Africa has about 50 000 employees, working at own- and subsidiary operations in the diamond, platinum-group metals, iron-ore and coal sectors, across the country.

After powering the British economy for centuries, coal is a dying breed in the nation’s energy mix. The combustible sedimentary rock accounted for as much as 40% of the electricity generation only six years ago, but that figure dropped to 5% last year. By the middle of the next decade, there won’t be any plants left at all as the government plans to go completely coal free.

The share price of junior FYI Resources on Wednesday increased after the company announced the trial production of high purity alumina from its pilot plant in Western Australia. The pilot plant is scheduled to run continuously for seven days, on a 24-hour a day basis, to demonstrate the end-to-end processing of FYI’s high purity alumina process flowsheet.