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Security incidents that disrupt trains transporting coal to South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) for export to the world are in definite decline and that has certainly helped to improve performance, acting Transnet Freight Rail CE Russell Baatjies emphasised to Mining Weekly during question time at RBCT’s latest media briefing. In addition, a gradual changeout of overhead catenary copper cable that supplies electricity to locomotives using the coal line with the aluminium conductor steel... Читать дальше...

Battery metals project developer South Star has increased the size of its previously announced nonbrokered private placement and will now raise gross proceeds of C$7-million. The upsized placement at C$0.72 a share is the result of “significant demand”, the company said in a statement on Friday.

Chile's State-run Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, named Braim Chiple as its new chief commercial officer, the company said on Friday. Starting on March 15, Chiple, who comes from the private mining sector, will take over from outgoing CCO Carlos Alvarado, who had worked at Codelco since 1996.

Bolivia's government has launched a new international tender for companies to extract lithium from the country's salt flats, the energy minister said on Friday. The tender, from state-owned Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos, seeks to develop projects in various salt flats in the Altiplano region, including three of the South American country's biggest lithium reserves.

Sigma Lithium's chief controls officer (CCO) Raphael Dias has left the company, he told Reuters on Friday, in the latest management shakeup at the Vancouver-based miner. Dias was announced as CCO last August. According to the firm, Dias has 22 years of experience in finance and internal controls.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has not sought to influence who will be chief executive of major mining company Vale, a senior official said on Friday, after recent reports suggesting otherwise caused the firm's shares to tumble. Vale, one of the world's largest producers of iron-ore and nickel, was privatised in the 1990s but the government still exerts significant influence as its main shareholders include a pension fund operated by state-run lender Banco do Brasil.