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NEW DELHI, July 23 (Reuters) - Ground water in Vedanta Resources' south Indian copper smelter contains heavy metals exceeding limits for drinking water, India's junior minister for water resources, Arjun Ram Meghwal, told lawmakers on Monday.The smelter was shut down in May under order of the Tamil Nadu state government after 13 people died after coming under police fire during violent protests ov...Read More
Debt financing doubled between 2016 and 2017, writes the PDAC in its mineral financing report released last month.While the amount of financing recovered from mid-decade lows due to a cyclical upswing in global economic activity, the composition of financing changed."Equity financing, which accounts for on average roughly 35% of the funds raised globally, declined the most in 2013 but has subseque...Read More
Investing.com - Metals traders will remain focused on the dollar this week after comments by U.S. President Donald Trump on interest rates stalled a rally in the greenback on Friday, offering some relief to gold, which recovered from one-year lows.Investors will also be looking ahead to Friday’s U.S. GDP report to see how the economy performed in the second quarter. The data is expected to s...Read More
Danakali has been working with its 50% joint venture partner, state-owned Eritrean National Mining Corporation, to progressively de-risk the 1.1 billion tonne sulphate of potash project in the Danakil basin.It was granted a mining licence in 2017, completed a front end engineering design earlier this year, and last month signed a take-or-pay offtake agreement for up to 100% of Module One SOP produ...Read More
In just over a year since Orion Minerals acquired its flagship Prieska copper-zinc project, it has established a substantial resource and is on track to complete a bankable feasibility study around the end of this year, with production slated for 2020.The rapid developments are now enabling the company to turn its attention elsewhere in the Areachap terrain to the equally exciting Jacomynspan nick...Read More
Labor negotiations at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, are frozen without signs of progress toward an agreement just over a week before the current contract expires, the union said in an internal message to its members.The union said mine owner BHP rejected union demands made last week, raising the prospects of a strike at the mine for the second straight year. Last year's 44-da...Read More
The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines determined that Canada's Miramont Resources (CSE: MONT) is not eligible for an automatic approval of its drilling permit for the Cerro Hermoso project, as it is possible that the exploration activities may affect Indigenous communities. In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner explained that since its Environmental Impact Statement was approved earlie...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices rose on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve for increasing interest rates.Comex gold futures for August delivery rose 0.47% to $1,229.70 a troy ounce as of 10:29 AM ET (14:29 GMT).Trump said in an interview on CNBC that he does not approve of how the Fed is approaching monetary policy. The Fed raised rates twice this year and is expected...Read More
(Bloomberg) -- The mayhem in industrial metals is creating waves across $1.4 billion of exchange-traded products tracking the sector.Their prices are whipsawing, investors are bailing, and some may be profiting spectacularly from the sector’s collapse.While base metals secured a reprieve Friday, they’ve been rattled by a sell-off over fears for Chinese demand and the Sino-U.S. trade wa...Read More
Investing.com - Metal prices were higher but gold inched down amid comments from U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticized the Federal Reserve for increasing interest rates.Comex gold futures for August delivery inched down 0.04% to $1,223.50 a troy ounce as of 4:32 AM ET (8:32 GMT).Trump said in an interview on CNBC that he does not approve of how the Fed is approaching monetary policy. The Fed...Read More
MUMBAI, July 20 (Reuters) - Vedanta Ltd VDAN.NS would suffer a loss of about $100 million if its Tuticorin copper smelter in southern India continues to remain shut for a year, Chairman Anil Agarwal told television channel ET Now on Friday.The smelter has been shut since May after the Tamil Nadu (NS:TNNP) state government cut power supply to the unit, following violent protests over alleged pollut...Read More
(Bloomberg) -- The market turmoil spurred by the Chinese yuan’s tumble to a one-year low is putting traders on alert during the normally sleepy Northern hemisphere summer.As the onshore yuan plunged 0.9 percent Thursday, its biggest drop since 2015 on a closing basis, it took most Asian currencies along for the ride amid broad dollar strength. Copper slid below $6,000 a metric ton for the fi...Read More
Only two per cent of Australia's annual 3,300 tonnes of lithium-ion battery waste is recycled, says the consultancy CSIRO in a report on Lithium-ion battery recycling published Wednesday.The authors of the study want to emulate the same success that was achieved in recycling lead-acid batteries. Of the 150,000 tonnes of lead-acid batteries sold in 2010, CSIRO says 98 per cent were recycled.The aut...Read More