Новости за 08.01.2020

Canada-headquartered explorer Prophecy Development has two major objectives for 2020: increasing silver ounces at the Pulacayo project, in Bolivia, and bolstering investor awareness. In a statement addressing investors, executive chairperson John Lee and CEO Michael Doolin on Wednesday outlined the company’s achievements of 2019 and detailed how it plans to accomplish its objectives for this year.

Creamer Media is launching a new daily email newsletter – Mining Weekly Global Edition – featuring mining news stories from around the world. Whereas Creamer Media’s other popular mining newsletters focus on mining news from specific regions, the new Mining Weekly Global Edition offers readers a roundup of the major mining stories from Africa, the Americas, Australasia and Europe.

The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) is mourning the passing of Sergey Oulin, who died on December 31, at the age of 69. WFDB president Ernie Blom has, on behalf of the organisation, expressed sadness at the loss of Oulin, who was the president of the Diamond Chamber of Russia and a former member of the WFDB executive committee.

Steady growth is forecast for global copper mine production over the next few years, as a number of new projects and expansions are expected to come on line. According to Fitch Solution, global copper production is forecast to increase by an average rate of 3.1% a year over 2020 to 2028, with total production rising from 21.6-million tonnes to 27.8-million tonnes over the period.

Successful leach testing of high-grade nickel concentrates from Vancouver-based explorer FPX Nickel’s Decar nickel district, near Fort St James, British Columbia, has confirmed nickel recoveries up to 99.5% in producing a high-concentration nickel/cobalt chemical solution suitable for the electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chain. The results of this test programme position Decar as a potentially significant supplier of nickel for the stainless steel and the EV battery markets, the company indicated in a statement on Tuesday.

Global tin mine production will grow at a slower rate of 0.9% a year between 2019 and 2028, compared with a growth rate of 2.1% a year over 2009 to 2018, research firm Fitch Solution estimates. The modest production growth rate will, however, be supported by rising tin prices, it adds.

Australian metals miner Independence Group on Wednesday reported that metal production in the first half of 2020 had beaten production expectations, with both the Nova and Tropicana mines delivering a strong December quarter. During the three months to December, the Nova mine, in Western Australia, produced 7 513 t of contained nickel, 3 289 t of contained copper and 279 t of contained cobalt, while Tropicana, also in Western Australia, produced 133 932 oz of gold, of which Independence’s share accounted for 38 612 oz.

Canada’s Canpotex, the joint venture between Mosaic and Nutrien that markets Saskatchewan potash overseas, has appointed Gordan McKenzie its president and CEO. The appointment is effective January 17.

TSX- and NYSE American-listed PolyMet Mining has recruited Richard Lock as senior VP and project director for the NorthMet copper/nickel project, in Minnesota, US. Lock is a veteran mining executive who has led construction and development of large copper and other mines around the globe, most recently the construction of KAZ Minerals’ Peschanka openpit copper mine, in Russia.

Copper output slumped at Chile's state miner Codelco and BHP's sprawling Escondida mine in November, according to Chile state copper agency Cochilco, amid a turbulent month of riots and mass protests that rocked the mineral-rich South American nation. Cochilco said output at Codelco, the world's largest copper miner, plummeted 11% in November over the same month in 2018 to 155 200 t. Production at BHP's Escondida, the globe's largest copper mine, fell 1.5% to 103 200 t.