Новости за 23.05.2022

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has urged Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe to act immediately against diversified miner Sibanye-Stillwater by revoking its mining rights in the South African gold sector. Section 47 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act provides the Minister with the power to suspend or cancel rights, permits or permissions in certain circumstances.

The mining industry has a problem. It has worthy aspirations for high technology, digitisation, and a progressive performance culture, but it lacks the necessary operating platform to support and enable this. Despite its many successes in a tough working environment, the industry is experiencing declining productivity, and most businesses struggle to achieve stable, predictable operations and continuous, sustainable improvement. In Don’t Digitise Your Rubbish, Andy Sherring explains what lies behind... Читать дальше...

Kazakhstan’s national atomic company Kazatomprom on Monday refuted information regarding the privatisation of some of its assets, including its drilling subsidiary and uranium mining asset. The company was commenting on a draft resolution from the Kazakhstan government posted for public discussions, which included an updated list of companies to be privatised under a government privatisation plan. These included Kazatomprom's drilling subsidiary Volkovgeologiya, the company's provider of security services Qorgan Security... Читать дальше...

Chile's government, which has pledged to establish a state lithium firm to develop the ultra-light battery metal, hopes to establish a model for the company by the end of the year, mining minister Marcela Hernando told local paper La Tercera on Sunday. The South American country is the world's second largest producer of lithium, a key component for electric car batteries, with its domestic industry currently dominated by two private firms Albemarle and SQM.

NYSE American- and TSX-listed Energy Fuels has entered into an agreement to acquire 17 mineral concessions, which has significant quantities of heavy minerals, including monazite, in Brazil. The company states that the Bahia project is a well-known heavy mineral sands deposit with more than 3 300 vertical historic exploration auger holes drilled to date, indicating significant concentrations of titanium (ilmenite and rutile), zirconium (zircon), and rare earth elements (monazite).

Junior Ironbark Zinc has inked a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Norwegian group Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner (LNS) over a potential equity investment and services contract for the Citronen in Greenland. Under the terms of the MoU, LNS could earn an equity position in the project in return for preferred contractor status on three key elements, including civil construction, mining contractor and logistic management for both the mining and construction phases.

ASX-listed European Lithium has thrown a potential A$125-million spanner in fellow listed Mallee Resources’ plans to acquire the Avebury nickel sulphide project, in Tasmania. Mallee earlier this year unveiled a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) to acquire Allegiance Mining, which has gone into receivership. Allegiance owns the Avebury mining license, exploration license, the underground mine, processing plant, mine infrastructure and other associated assets.

Two employees of Australian mining contractor Barminco died in an underground incident at copper miner Khoemacau Copper Mining’s operations, in Botswana, on May 20. On May 21, Khoemacau said investigations into the cause of the accident were ongoing.

Industrial technology company Metso Outotec has launched its new truck body, which is a one-piece, lightweight, hybrid truck bowl that combines the benefits of high-strength steel and rubber. It was designed to lower hauling costs, in addition to offering a safer working environment and maximising payload.

Canadian explorer Skyharbour Resources has entered into an option agreement with Rio Tinto Exploration Canada (RTEC) to acquire up to 100% of the Russell Lake uranium project, which is situated between the company’s Moore Uranium project and Denison Mines’ Wheeler River project in the Athabasca basin of Saskatchewan. The project is a premier, advanced-stage exploration property given its large size, proximity to critical regional infrastructure, and the significant amount of historical exploration carried out on the property... Читать дальше...

Peru's President Pedro Castillo shuffled his Cabinet on Sunday, including replacing the interior minister and the important mining minister amid rising tensions over protests in the world's second largest copper producing country. Castillo has shuffled his ministerial team multiple times since coming into office in the middle of last year as he has battled against falling popularity, a hostile Congress, corruption probes and community tensions hitting mining.

In positioning itself for the next generation of precious metals - such as palladium, rhodium, iridium, and others - which fulfill catalytic roles, the eighth iteration of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s (SAIMM’s) Platinum-Group Metals (PGMs) Conference is looking to help establish a cleaner world, with a focus on it being greener and less carbon intensive. This, explains PGMs Conference chairperson Gary Lane, will see the 2022 edition host a variety of discussions surrounding the integrated value stream... Читать дальше...