Generation Mining has started with construction of the Marathon copper/palladium project, in Ontario.
The market for the raw material needed to produce aluminium is both huge and highly opaque despite the best efforts of both exchanges and price reporting agencies.
The US Department of Defence's (DoD's) Defence Logistics Agency has awarded Texas-based Supra Elemental Recovery a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract to advance the recovery of scandium.
Supervisors at BHP's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, rejected a collective contract offer on Wednesday, paving the way for a potential strike at the Chilean mine.
The two main unions at Antofagasta Minerals' Centinela copper mine in Chile said on Tuesday they are ready to strike, but hope one can be averted if the company agrees to a deal during mandatory government-mediated talks.
Atico Mining Corporation has entered into a new secure project finance facility worth $95-million with commodities trader Trafigura to facilitate the construction and development of the La Plata gold and copper project, in Ecuador.
Canadian emerging gold, copper and silver producer Troilus Mining Corporation has secured the bulk of the debt financing required to build the Troilus project in Québec.
Eldorado Gold Corporation has successfully connected the Skouries mine, in Greece, to the national power grid, with permanent grid power connection supporting the mine's advance to commercial production.
Koryx Copper has announced assay results from 18 drill holes (7 074 m) received as part of the ongoing infill and expansion drill programme on the wholly-owned Haib copper project, in southern Namibia.
Meridian Mining has confirmed a net present value (after tax) of $2.09-billion for the Cabaçal project in Brazil, even at base case prices of $3 570/oz of gold, $5.03/lb of copper and $50.17/oz of silver.
