Thunderbird surges ahead
Mining News Pro - Sheffield Resources has announced that it is 85 per cent complete with construction of its Thunderbird mineral sands project in northern Western Australia.
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Polymetal plays down scope of sanctions as London-listed shares tank
Mining News Pro - Gold producer Polymetal International PLC sought to play down the impact of US sanctions on its Russian operations as its London-listed shares tanked on Monday, emphasizing that the restrictions did not affect its business outside Russia.
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Microbes help deal with uranium in groundwater, spent nuclear fuel repositories
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Sweden’s Linnaeus University described a previously unknown chemical process for the removal of uranium from groundwater.
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Developer of Alaska’s Pebble mine raises ongoing concerns
Mining News Pro - Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd on Monday raised doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern if the company is unable to raise the necessary capital for the Pebble copper and gold mining project in Alaska.
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Russia uranium deal caused manager exodus at Kazakh mining giant
Mining News Pro - The sale of a stake in a massive new uranium mine to Russia prompted an exodus of senior managers at Kazakhstan’s state-run miner.
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Developer of Alaska’s Pebble mine raises ongoing concerns
Mining News Pro - Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd on Monday raised doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern if the company is unable to raise the necessary capital for the Pebble copper and gold mining project in Alaska.
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US is vulnerable to China’s lock on key minerals, Biden aide says
Mining News Pro - The US economy is vulnerable to China’s “lock” on critical mineral processing, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden said, likening the situation to the risk Europe faced from its reliance on Russia’s oil and gas amid its invasion of Ukraine.
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Malaysia gives Lynas extension to keep rare earths unit open
Mining News Pro - Malaysian authorities granted a six-month extension to Australia miner Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. to get its rare earth plant in line with environmental requirements.
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Brazil’s Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine
Mining News Pro - Leaders of Brazil’s Mura people said on Friday tensions have risen in the Autazes region where they live after a federal agency crew visited the area to discuss potentially demarcating their ancestral land, which overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.
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Sibanye resumes underground production at Stillwater West after shaft repairs
Mining News Pro - Sibanye-Stillwater has resumed production at its Stillwater West platinum group metals (PGM) mine in Montana after repairing the shaft infrastructure that was damaged during an incident in March.
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Platinum nanoclusters improve fuel cell performance
Mining News Pro - Recent findings by researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have the potential to serve as a guideline for the design of future high-activity, high-performance platinum catalysts for use in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs).
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Uranium price showing resilience relative to other commodities
Mining News Pro - The U3O8 uranium spot price fell slightly from $50.85 to $50.70 in March and remains up 4.93% year-to-date as of March 31, 2023, showing strength relative to other commodities, which declined 6.47% YTD (as measured by the BCOM Index), Sprott Asset Management said in its latest uranium report.
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Australia forging ahead on critical minerals accords with allies
Mining News Pro - Australia is seeing early success in attracting investment from key diplomatic allies in its nascent critical minerals industry amid a global push to reduce reliance on dominant producer China, the country’s resources minister said on Thursday.
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Danakali sells stake in flagship Colluli potash project in Eritrea
Mining News Pro - Australia’s Danakali has completed the sale of its 50% stake in the Colluli potash project in Eritrea, Africa, 13 years after partnering with the Eritrean National Mining Corporation to build the mine.
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Glencore ordered to pay $700 million by US judge in bribery case
Mining News Pro - Glencore Plc was ordered by a federal judge in New York to pay $700 million as a criminal punishment for a global bribery scheme orchestrated by the Swiss-based commodities trading and mining giant.
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Supply squeeze sparks 122% rally in little-known metal market
Mining News Pro - The world’s hottest metals market at the moment is molybdenum, the obscure commodity that’s used to help toughen steel.
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Copper catalyst may be essential for production of solar fuels from sunlight, water
Mining News Pro - A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has gained new insights into how copper works as an electrocatalyst, a mechanism that uses energy from electrons to chemically transform molecules into different products.
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South Africa’s blackouts threaten platinum supply in top miner
Mining News Pro - South Africa’s worst ever power blackouts are threatening platinum and palladium supplies in the top miner, both now and in the years ahead.
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GoviEx sells Falea uranium project in Mali
Mining News Pro - GoviEx Uranium is selling its uranium-silver-copper Falea project in Mali to African Energy Metals (TSXV: CUCO) in a C$5.5 million cash and share deal.
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Fission announces economics for Patterson Lake South uranium
Mining News Pro - Fission Uranium has announced the results of a feasibility study conducted by Tetra Tech Canada for the Patterson Lake South property in the Athabasca Basin.
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World to face potash price crunch as Brazil Potash propels Autazes project toward production
Mining News Pro - High potash prices will likely persist as the world scrambles to bring more production online amidst concerns over food security, privately held developer Brazil Potash says.
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Congo picks Symbion to tap methane-filled lake
Mining News Pro - New York’s Symbion Power won a bid to produce electricity from methane trapped in a lake in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s oil minister Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga told Bloomberg.
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Toughest material on earth now a reality
Mining News Pro - A group of scientists has measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi).
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Surging molybdenum price adds weight to new year rally for copper producers
Mining News Pro - Copper prices started the new year with a bang – touching fresh six-month highs on Tuesday. Copper for delivery in March touched $4.0795 per pound or just shy of $9,000 a tonne, bringing gains for the first week of 2023 to over 8%.
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South Star targets Dec. 2023 start for Brazil graphite mine
Mining News Pro - South Star Battery Metals says its Santa Cruz graphite project in eastern Brazil is on track to complete construction and commissioning by December next year.
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