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• New Mineral Discovered Inside Of Diamonds

  Published 23 September 2019 | viewed 2,770 times

  A PhD student at the University of Alberta discovered a new mineral inside a diamond recovered from a mine in South Africa.  The mineral is named goldschmidtite…

• Miners Are Weathering The Trade War Storm

  Published 19 September 2019 | viewed 2,975 times

  A new report by BMO Global Commodities Research suggests that while overall Chinese trade is struggling — looking beyond headline figures, mining firms have few…

• Economic Woes Weigh On Copper Prices

  Published 17 September 2019 | viewed 2,383 times

  The price of copper dropped on Monday amid intensifying worries about China’s economic slowdown, particularly in manufacturing, vital to the overall demand for the bellwether…

• Global Gold Sector Outlines Responsible Mining Principles

  Published 13 September 2019 | viewed 3,033 times

  After two years of debate and consultations, the gold sector has come up with a set of global principles that set out clear expectations for…

• Supply Concerns Halt Expansion On Tianqi Lithium Plant

  Published 11 September 2019 | viewed 2,224 times

  Chinese lithium miner Tianqi, one of the world’s top producers of the white metal, has shelved plans to complete a A$300 million ($205m) second phase…

• Battery Metals Demand Is Fueling Human Rights Violations

  Published 05 September 2019 | viewed 3,137 times

  Most of the world’s top companies mining for lithium, cobalt and other minerals used in the making of electric vehicles’ (EVs) batteries, solar panels and…

• Australia Launches New Mining Research Center

  Published 02 September 2019 | viewed 2,168 times

  The Australian government announced that it will provide A$3.7 million in funding for a new national mining research and training centre called the ‘Australian Research Council Industrial…

• Lack Of Funding Could Lead To Battery Metal Supply Shortage

  Published 29 August 2019 | viewed 4,102 times

  In the second quarter this year, cobalt and lithium prices dropped to the lowest point in more than two years, driven by short-term oversupply which…

• Tackling Lithium Batteries' Biggest Problem

  Published 26 August 2019 | viewed 3,541 times

  Lithium metal batteries fail when bits of lithium metal deposits break off from the surface of the anode during discharging and are trapped as “dead”…

• Are Copper Naysayers Missing The Big Picture?

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 3,336 times

  The price of copper came under pressure again on Thursday amid worries about a global economic slowdown, particularly in manufacturing, vital to overall demand for…

• Lithium Hype Can't Live Up To Supply Realities

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 4,104 times

  An ongoing avalanche of lithium supply, coming mostly from Australia, as well as cuts to China’s electric-vehicles (EVs) subsidies, is set to keep prices for…

• Protests Threaten $5 Billion Peruvian Copper Mine

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 4,425 times

  Ongoing anti-mining protests in Peru, triggered by the recent approval of a now halted construction permit for Southern Copper’s (NYSE:SCCO) $1.4 billion Tia Maria project in Arequipa, have extended to Anglo…

• EV Sector Needs 250% More Of This Metal By 2030 Just For Charging Stations

  Published 13 August 2019 | viewed 3,211 times

  While it is a known fact that electric vehicles (EVs) use about four times more copper than gasoline-powered vehicles, short-term demand for the metal won’t…

• How Far Away Are We From Fully Autonomous Mines?

  Published 07 August 2019 | viewed 3,391 times

  Automation is a hot topic in the mining industry, as producers look at ways to increase both productivity and onsite safety. A recent report, Accessing the…

• Is Biomining The Secret To Deep Space Exploration?

  Published 05 August 2019 | viewed 2,055 times

  Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Geological Sciences are studying the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using bacteria. Even…

• Canadian Miners Push For A More Competitive Legal Framework

  Published 29 July 2019 | viewed 4,406 times

  The Canadian Mineral Industry Federation, the Mining Association of Canada, and the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada issued a brief this month urging provincial,…

• Battery Metals Face Looming Supply Crunch

  Published 25 July 2019 | viewed 3,997 times

  Growing global demand for batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and high tech devices is set to cause a supply crunch of lithium, cobalt and nickel by the mid-2020s, global…

• Mining Major Sets Aside $400 Million To Reduce Emissions

  Published 23 July 2019 | viewed 4,611 times

  Mining major BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) has committed to invest $400 million over five years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations and mined commodities, as the world’s number…

• Chile Cracks Down On Environmental Infractions

  Published 10 July 2019 | viewed 1,742 times

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has submitted a series of modifications to a bill introduced earlier this year, which would set stiffer fines and jail time for…

• Here's Why Gold Has Been Used As Money For Thousands Of Years

  Published 05 July 2019 | viewed 8,079 times

  The economist John Maynard Keynes famously called gold a “barbarous relic”, suggesting that its usefulness as money is an artifact of the past. In an…