LONDON (Reuters) - Copper bulls who are betting on labor strife this year due to a full calendar of contract talks may be disappointed if early wage deals at two copper mines are a signpost for further agreements with mine workers. Benchmark copper prices rallied 12 percent in December, partly due to fear
"The issue is the mining industry needs stability and we absolutely need transparency." Ivanhoe is also building a new operation at Kipushi, a past producing zinc-copper mine in partnership with Congo's state-owned G?(C)camines. The company's most advanced project, however, is Platreef platinum, located
The mining approach to be used at Gunnison is also important. In-situ mining sees fluid injected into the ground, and when it comes up at a different part of the project site it brings copper with it. On-site processing of the fluid removes the copper and the cycle repeats. No tailings ponds are required, and
The mining approach to be used at Gunnison is also important. In-situ mining sees fluid injected into the ground, and when it comes up at a different part of the project site it brings copper with it. On-site processing of the fluid removes the copper and the cycle repeats. No tailings ponds are required, and
"It has to absolutely help the people around the mines. If it doesn't, then of course we don't want to pay it." Ivanhoe's copper project in Congo will be the fourth-biggest copper mine in the world within nine years of starting production, and in the longer term it could become "the greatest on the surface of the
For Stephanie Dickinson of Aurora, a Minnesota Power employee, the PolyMet copper-nickel mine would mean people could stay on the East Range, buy homes, raise kids and plan for a future in Northeastern Minnesota. Since 2000, when LTV Steel Mining shuttered its taconite mine and processing
SILVER CITY, Mich. - State officials are allowing a copper mining company to resume exploration of a section of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Copperwood Resources is conducting test drills to see if a deposit first explored in the 1950s might be feasible for mining. The tests are scheduled
Castillo Copper (ASX:CCZ) today revealed to the market that significant massive sulphide mineralisation has been drilled at the historic Cangai Copper Mine, situated at the Jackaderry Project, NSW. Outstanding drilling logs confirmed that seven out of eight and a half drill-holes intersected sulphide
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation ("Abacus" or the "Company") (TSXV:AME) is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire a new copper property adjacent to its Willow porphyry copper-gold project located near Yerington, Nevada. The new
Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, president and chief executive of Trilogy Metals Inc., which is positioning itself to mine Ambler-area copper, pitched the project as environmentally friendly. The only way to combat global warming, Van Nieuwenhuyse said at the December 2017 working group meeting, is to switch to
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's largest copper and gold mining company Oyu Tolgoi LLC has opened its Risk Demonstration Center here, local media reported on Tuesday. The center aims to raise awareness about the common workplace risks of a mine site. The company's CEO Armando
February 5, 2018) - Duran Ventures Inc. (TSXV: DRV) ("Duran" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") to purchase and process high grade copper sulphide mineralized material from Otuzco Copper Mining Corporation S.A.C. ("Otuzco"), a private
The SOMO report spells out how the company, which is controlled by the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and has headquarters in Vancouver, arranged its affairs to minimize its tax obligations. It owns a majority interest in a copper mining operation in Mongolia called Oyu Tolgoi, and set up
Cradle Arc has received an independent test report from SGS South Africa confirming the applicability of Dense Media Separation (DMS) for its flagship Mowana copper mine. Botswana - Accordingly, it remains the board's intention to pursue a DMS installation in due course as the development plan for the
In late December, those worries gained traction when a mining company filed for a permit to develop an open-pit mine atop one of the world's largest unmined sources of copper and gold. Discovered in the late 1980s, the so-called Pebble deposit may contain as much as 80 billion pounds of copper and
KAMLOOPS - Blockchain mines look nothing like copper mines. They are banks of computer that toil away at solving complex calculations. Blockchain is the digital ledger used by many cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Because the computers generate heat, they could be used to warm the greenhouses
Fonseca said he and other leaders of the initiative have been repeatedly called "chicken," the Chilean mining industry equivalent of "scab." During last year's strike, workers camping at the mine's entrance built a chicken coop. Inside, they placed a list of names of the workers that didn't join and hung a
The share price was walked down professionally from C$1.25 to C$1.00, against all positive copper and mining stock sentiment at the time, and at December 11, 2017 the financing was announced. As majority shareholder Greenstone took up about half the amount, they probably wouldn't have mind to say
BELGRADE (Serbia), February 2 (SeeNews) - Serbian copper mining and smelting company RTB Bor said it increased the production of copper ore at the Veliki Krivelj open pit mine by 40% year-on-year to 855,000 tonnes in January. RTB Bor plans to produce between 830,000 and 900,000 tonnes of
SES Networks has entered an agreement with Canadian mineral exploration and development company Ivanhoe Mines to develop connectivity for the mining industry in Congo. The deal will see SES Networks provide high-performance managed connectivity services for the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project