Новости за 06.04.2022

Diversified miner Glencore has published its inaugural Ethics and Compliance Report, with key findings including the group’s 5% reduction in total emissions in 2021 and payments to governments totalling $7.6-billion. The report states the company’s commitment to deliver value for its 135 000 employees and contractors, as well as other stakeholders, by operating transparently under a well-defined set of values, with integrity at the forefront.

TSX-V-listed Deep-South Resources has appointed King & Spalding as international legal counsel. The mandate of King & Spalding is to review the companies’ options under international law in relation to the Namibian government’s handling of the Haib copper exploration and prospecting licence and the government’s refusal to renew the licence.

Britain's Moxico Resources plans to invest $100 million to expand its majority-owned Mimbula copper mine in Zambia, UK Minister for Africa Vicky Ford said on Wednesday. The investment will create new jobs and increased tax revenues for Zambia's government, Ford said in a statement released by the British High Commission in Zambia while she was on a visit to the country.

Coal miner Glencore Coal has handed over a revamped service centre office to the community of Klarinet, in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga. The Klarinet Municipal Pay Point Centre will be used as a functional rates and taxes municipal service facility for community members who have been unable to access the only other available service centre in eMalahleni owing to distance.

Brazilian holding J&F Investimentos has agreed to acquire Vale's iron-ore and manganese mines in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul for one-billion reais ($215- million), newspaper Valor Economico reported late on Tuesday. The figure to be paid by J&F, parent company of meatpacker JBS and pulpmaker Eldorado Brasil, includes the ventures' debt, Valor said, citing market sources familiar with the matter.

Coordinated industry intervention is required to create sustainable platinum group metals (PGM) markets, with hydrogen the key long-term use of platinum, said outgoing SFA Oxford head Stephen Forrest in a swansong address. “Promote PGMs heavily as platinum’s structural surplus helps adoption and will unlock mission critical iridium and ruthenium supply too,” Forrest told the 2022 PGMs Industry Day covered by Mining Weekly. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)

India currently had ten nuclear reactors under construction and had authorised the construction of another ten. The country had also imported 7 546 t of natural uranium ore concentrate and 56.78 t of enriched uranium fuel pellets over the past three years, complementing the country's own uranium production. These figures were released by Indian Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh, in written answers to questions in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of ...

TSX-listed Orvana Minerals has restarted operations and production at its Orovalle gold/copper/silver mine, in Spain, after a nationwide truck drivers’ strike came to an end on Saturday. The transport strike started on March 14, causing a significant disruption to supply chains. Orvana reported on Monday that it had received the required materials to restart operations.

Agricultural powerhouse Brazil is desperate for fertilisers. Belarus, a sanctioned regime friendly to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, is looking for ways to ship more of the nutrients. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gave his stamp of approval to small companies trying to export potash to cash in on skyrocketing fertilizer prices. But the US and the EU banned the country’s shipments of the nutrient, leaving Brazilian farmers scrambling. To secure enough potash for the soybean planting in September... Читать дальше...

Latin American-focused Atico Mining has halted mining at its El Robe mine, in Colombia, after a landslide in the vicinity of its operations on April 1. The landslide did not result in any injuries, but minor equipment damage has been reported.

ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals is on the hunt for third party nickel concentrate providers to help feed its planned downstream operations in Vietnam. Blackstone MD Scott Williamson told delegates at Paydirt’s Battery Minerals conference, in Perth, that the company would supply roughly 50% of its downstream processing ores from its own Ta Khoa nickel project, also in Vietnam, with the remainder of the feed to come from third party suppliers.

This week: Vedanta investing R7bn in Gamsberg 'green' zinc expansion; and, Northam says platinum supply on downhill slope

ASX-listed Centrex will raise A$16-million through a share placement to support the development of the Ardmore phosphate project, in Queensland. The company would place 57.1-million ordinary shares to institutional, professional and sophisticated investors, priced at 14c a share, to raise an initial A$8-million. The shares will be issued under Centrex’s existing placement capacity.

Major BHP has struck a renewable energy agreement with Enel Green Power to underpin construction of Stage 1 of the Flat Rocks wind farm near the Great Southern town of Kojonup. The agreement with Enel meant that BHP had secured sufficient renewable energy to cover all of the power requirements for its major nickel operations in Western Australia.

Diversified miner Rio Tinto paid some details $13.3-billion of global taxes and royalties paid during 2021, up from $8.4-billion in 2020. Despite the ongoing challenges of Covid-19, Rio made a total direct economic contribution of $66.6-billion in the countries and communities where it operates in 2021, compared to $47-billion the previous year.

Battery metals company Independence Group (IGO) is expected to produce its first battery grade lithium hydroxide form the first train of its Kwinana lithium hydroxide facility, in Western Australia, shortly. IGO COO Matt Dusci told delegates at Paydirt’s Battery Minerals conference, in Perth, that construction of the 24 000 t/y Train 1 was on track, with the company also having committed A$18-million to construction of Train 1, which would add a further 24 000 t/y of production capacity.