Новости за 09.06.2020

ASX-listed EHR Resources has entered into an exploration alliance agreement with Diamond Exploration Strategies (DES), a privately owned company focused on diamond exploration in Botswana. Under the terms of the agreement, EHR will provide funding of $1.5-million over three years to finance exploration activities and earn 50% ownership of any discoveries made.

Formalising artisanal mining is a challenge for the mining industry, especially in remote locations and many organisations are stepping in to help. This was mentioned during a June 9 webinar about formalising artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in the lead up to the DRC Mining Week conference.

World Jewellery Confederation's (Cibjo's) yearly congress, which had been for October 5 to 7, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, has been postponed to 2021 as a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic. The decision to postpone the congress was taken during a video conference of the Cibjo board of directors, following consultation with the Dubai Multi-Commodities Centre (DMCC), which was to have hosted the event.

Industry body, the Minerals Council South Africa, says it takes issue with a narrative that appears to be developing in some quarters labelling the mining industry as an “epicentre” of Covid-19. In a June 9 statement, it said this idea was often raised in newspaper reports or by government officials. It said these statements often lacked a proper understanding of the precautionary processes implemented by the industry which gave rise to the data on which these assumptions were based. The council... Читать дальше...

Angola’s Mineral Resources and Petroleum Minister Dr Diamantino Pedro Azevedo has announced the country’s plans to develop industry-specific market infrastructure for improved diamond trade activity. The country plans on establishing an Angolan Diamond Hub and an Angolan Diamond Bourse.

Coal developer Bowen Coking Coal has reported a Joint Ore Reserves Committee compliant resource estimate of 43-million tonnes for the northern part of its Hillalong project, in Queensland. The ASX-listed company on Tuesday said that 21-million tonnes of this resource is classified as indicated with a further 22-million tonnes classified as inferred, with 19.5-million tonnes of the combined resource occurring within 150 m.

Air will be cleaner when it leaves the engine of a new hydrogen fuel cell electric car than when it enters the engine of the car, Hyundai states in a double-page advertisement in the latest edition of The Economist. This ultra-clean-air automotive advance comes against the backdrop of government regulations and consumers placing ever-increasing pressure on vehicle manufacturers to clean up their act and of South Africa's platinum helping the automotive world to achieve zero emission.

A slow decline in silver demand from photovoltaic (PV) cells is forecast for the next several years, but solar generation capacity growth in China, Europe and North America over the next decade, will keep silver demand at elevated levels. This is according to a new report, which London-based consultancy CRU produced on behalf of the Silver Institute. CRU reports that from 2020 to 2030, the PV sector is expected to consume a cumulative 888-million ounces of silver, or about 81-million ounces a year. Читать дальше...

Gold mining company Yamana Gold has commissioned technology firm GoldSpot Discoveries to use machine learning to identify new drilling targets at the Cerro Moro gold and silver mine, in Argentina. GoldSpot will examine Cerro Moro’s database and look for previously unrecognised data trends to identify areas of potential mineralisation at depth and on a regional scale.

The share price of ASX-listed Panoramic Resources rose by nearly 11% on Tuesday after the company announced that it was now debt free. The company has told shareholders that subsidiary Savannah Nickel Mines had full repaid a A$25-million debt facility from Macquarie Bank, while the miner has also repaid the principal and accrued interest of a subordinated debt facility with Zeta Resources, of which the final payment was approximately A$8.1-million.

Copper production in Chile's top mines rose in April despite the generalised shutdown in the country aimed at halting the spread of the new coronavirus. Chilean copper commission Cochilco said state miner Codelco, the world's top copper producer, saw production rise 2.8% year-on-year in April to 133 300 t and 3.8% in the first four months of 2020, while BHP´s Escondida, the world's largest mine, pumped out 102 600 t, a rise of 11.4% on the same month the previous year, an increase of 9% so far in 2020.