Новости за 04.03.2020

Chile has presented 40 mining projects, mostly copper and gold, to potential investors at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention in Toronto this week. Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica, who headed the Chilean delegation, launched a book with details of these mining investment projects, 34 of which are at the exploration stage and six in the predevelopment stage.

JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland has bought a further 30 690 of the company’s shares at about R95.19 a share. He paid more than R2.9-million for the shares, a notice published on the JSE’s Stock Exchange News Service on Wednesday shows.

The wash plant at Aim-listed Edenville Energy’s flagship Rukwa coal project, in south-west Tanzania, restarted continuous operations on Tuesday. The thermal coal project developer announced last month that a stockpile of about 6 000 t of unwashed run-of-mine coal, mined from the southern pit at Rukwa, had been established adjacent to the wash plant.

Diamond miner De Beers earned $355-million from the sale of rough diamonds in its second sales cycle of this year. CEO Bruce Cleaver on Wednesday noted that, in response to improved demand for rough diamonds during the first sales cycle, the company, recognised the impact of the Covid-19, or coronavirus, outbreak on customers focused on supplying the Chinese market and put in place additional targeted flexibility to enable customers to defer allocations of the relevant rough diamonds.

The shareholders of London-listed Sirius Minerals have approved a takeover by global mining major Anglo American. Almost 62% of the shareholders who voted at a general meeting in London on Tuesday voted for the deal. These shareholders represented 80% of the shares. The approval now paves the way for the Anglo American to buy Sirius at 5.5p a share, valuing the company at 404.9-million pounds. Some shareholders believe the price was too low and have urged Anglo American to raise its offer. The... Читать дальше...

The Minerals Council South Africa has published a new White Paper on Women in Mining to promote gender diversity and inclusion across mining operations. The paper, focusing on improving the representation of women in the sector, aims to accelerate the industry’s strategies and provide impetus for the advancement of women in the industry.

Australia's dormant carbon capture and storage projects may gain some momentum after BP and Santos said they would join up on a pending site as world's largest coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting country steps up its climate change fight. Australia's conservative government is working on policies to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), projects where carbon dioxide (CO2) is reinjected underground out of the atmosphere, to meet its Paris Climate Accord commitments to cut carbon emissions. Читать дальше...

The Minerals Council of Australia has welcomed recommendations that a uranium mining ban in New South Wales be repealed. The recommendation was one of those made by the New South Wales Legislative Council’s report into the Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill.

Takeover target Universal Coal and suitor TerraCom have agreed to adjourn a general meeting of Univesal’s shareholders while the two companies conduct a legal battle. TerraCom has previously called for the general meeting in a bid to remove Mark Eames, Tony Weber and Henri Bonsma as directors of Universal Coal, at a date no later than April 3.

The Carrapateena copper/gold mine in South Australia, has reached nameplate mill throughput rates, with stable operational periods at 500 t/h and in excess of 90% runtime achieved for a 24-hour period. ASX-listed Oz Minerals on Wednesday said that flotation recovery for several shifts have also exceeded 90%, with concentrate grades in excess of 40% copper.

Diamond miner Lucapa Diamond Company will raise some A$2.8-million in a share placement to sophisticated and professional investors to advance exploration work at its Lulo kimberlite project, in Angola. The company on Wednesday said that it would issue more than 25.8-million shares, at a price of 11c each under its existing placement capacity.

The head of the world's largest mining trade group said on Tuesday that new standards for mining waste dams likely will not be finalised for another month, citing logistical constraints and the prospect that coronavirus could make it harder for experts crafting the rules to meet. The rules are aimed at improving the safety of supersized waste dams, which have drawn global scrutiny in the wake of the fatal collapse of a Vale dam in Brazil last year.

Brazilian state prosecutors filed a lawsuit on Tuesday requesting that miner Anglo American's licence to expand a mining dam be suspended, following a fatal mining disaster last year. The state of Minas Gerais passed a law last year commonly called "Sea of Mud, Never Again" to change mining rules following the collapse of a dam at a Vale facility that released a torrent of mining waste, killing at least 270 people. Based on that law, Minas Gerais prosecutors are seeking to block the planned expansion in capacity of Anglo's Minas-Rio facility... Читать дальше...

Set against the earlier prediction of a “sizeable surplus” for 2020, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) has revised its forecast for platinum supply in 2020 downward, with demand now expected to exceed supply by only 1.5%, or 119 000 oz. Total demand for this year is expected to be just shy of eight-million ounces, with total supply anticipated to be about 8.1-million ounces.