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Cost of expansion at Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi rises again

July 15, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) flagged on Friday a cost increase of $300 million for the ongoing expansion of its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.The world's second largest miner said the cost and schedule reforecast, completed in June, now pegs the total project cost estimate at US$7.1 billion, almost US$1.8 billion higher than its original estimate in 2015. The com...Read More

The Company Behind the James Webb Space Telescope

July 15, 2022 / www.outsiderclub.com

All week long, we've had the privilege of gazing deeper into the kaleidoscope of space than any generation before. Cosmic cliffs, sparkling galaxies, gleaming stars, distant planets, and even evidence of water and clouds... It's all on display in the first images to be relayed from the James Webb Space Telescope.The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope in history. It bo...Read More

RT @Music_Royalties: Just posted a photo

July 14, 2022 / www.instagram.com

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RT @Music_Royalties: Just posted a photo

July 14, 2022 / www.instagram.com

Music Royalties Inc. shared a post on Instagram:Read full newsRead More

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July 14, 2022 / www.youtube.com

CEO.CA caught up with Joel Freudman, Co-founder and CEO of TRU Precious Metals (TSXV: TRU, OTCQB: TRUIF, FSE: 706) to discuss their drilling plans, leadershi...Read full newsRead More

Sarama Resources Provides Sanutura Project Exploration Update @SaramaResources #gold #mining #investing

July 14, 2022 / bit.ly

Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (ASX:SRR, TSX- V:SWA) is pleased to provide an update on the planned +50,000m drilling program at its 100%-owned(4), multi-million ounce Sanutura Project (the "Project") (news release dated May 12, 2022). The drilling program was designed to material...Read full newsRead More

Copper seen in surplus as global economic slowdown...

July 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

  Concerns about global economic growth have become more pronounced in recent months as rising inflation, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the ongoing tightening cycle by the US FederalRead More

Barrick misses consensus, shares lose 5%

July 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Barrick produced 1.04 million ounces of gold and 120 million pounds of copper in the second quarter and said it remained on course to meet guidance.Read More

Freeport-McMoRan seen as key signal on Q2 earnings...

July 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Shareholders and analysts will be watching Freeport-McMoRan's second quarter performance closely for a wider industry read on the impact of lower metals prices, inflation and economic deterioration,Read More

Uranium is losing the new energy market battle

July 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net: Mongolia Country SupplementSPONSOREDHomegrown and future-focused: a battery and critical metals discovery in the USASPONSOREDstill waters critical mineralsEclipse Metals to Explore Rare Earth Potential of Historic Greenland MineSPONSOREDeclipse metals ltdPensana Plc to provide UK-produced rare earth resourcesSPONSOREDpensanaThirty years ago, nuclear power plants...Read More

Crime Costs US Jewelers $70m in 2021

July 14, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Crime has cost US jewelers $2.2 billion in the last two decades, says the JSA, after adjustments for inflation.The total figure for 2021 was just over $70m, down from $83m the previous year, said the New York-based Jewelers' Security Alliance Releases in its newly-released 2021 Annual Crime Report.But the total number of crimes was up from 1,438 to 1,687, an increase of 17 per...Read More

Indian Jeweler Claims World Record with a 24,679-Diamond Ring

July 14, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - An Indian jeweler has landed a Guinness World Record with a ring made with 24,679 natural diamonds.The Touch of Ami took 90 days to make at SWA Diamonds, in Malappuram Inkel Educity, Kerala.It takes the title Most Diamonds Set in One Ring from the previous record holder Renani Jewels, based in Meerut, India. Their Ring of Prosperity is set with 12,638 individual diamonds."It is our...Read More

Nirav Modi's Brother Guilty of $2.6m Diamond Fraud

July 14, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Nehal Modi, younger brother of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, has been convicted by a US court of fraudulently obtaining diamonds worth over $2.6m.Modi, 41, a diamond trader, made false representations between March and August 2015,  regarding a purported deal with Costco Wholesale Corporation to obtain the gems LLD, also known as Lev Leviev Diamonds.He then liquidated the d...Read More

The view from England: Time called on mining graduates

July 14, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The U.K. is facing a crisis. No, not our mounting supply issues, soaring cost inflation or the sudden change in political leadership; rather, the plummeting numbers of drinking establishments and graduate mining engineers. A survey in 1577 found that there were over 16,000 alehouses, taverns (generally larger than alehouses and also served wine) and inns in England and Wales. With a combined p...Read More

Panasonic to build US$4B battery plant in US to supply Tesla

July 14, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Japan's Panasonic is deepening its ties with electric vehicles (EVs) maker Tesla by planning a battery plant in Kansas, which will cost US$4 billion.The facility is expected to supply the EV giant with a new high-capacity battery and boost Panasonic Energy's production capacity by fiscal 2028 from the current level of roughly 50 gigawatt-hours per year to 150 to 200 GWh.The Japanese company, the w...Read More

Rio Tinto invests US$188M to upgrade aluminum smelter in Quebec

July 14, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) is investing US$188 million to increase the production capacity for low-carbon, high-value aluminum billets at its Alma smelter in Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., by 202,000 tonnes.The existing casting centre at Rio Tinto's Alma plant will be expanded to accommodate new state-of-the-art equipment, including a casting pit and furnaces, allowing a larger portion of th...Read More

Barrick sees 5.4% bump in quarterly gold output; copper production up 18.8%

July 14, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD; TSX: ABX) has reported its preliminary second quarter operating results, showing total gold production of 1 million oz. and copper production of 120 million lb. During the quarter, it managed to sell all of the gold produced and 113 million lb. of copper.The gold output represents a 5.4% increase over the first quarter of 2022, which Barrick has said would be its lowest p...Read More

Anglo American, Nippon Steel to work on low-carbon steelmaking

July 14, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Anglo American (LSE: AAL) and Japan's Nippon Steel have joined forces to develop solutions for lower-carbon steelmaking, a process responsible for up to 9% of global greenhouse emissions.The companies will research ways to optimize premium lump ore produced by Anglo American's mines in Brazil and South Africa to decrease emissions in the traditional blast furnace (BF) steelmaking process.The partn...Read More

Winter coming for Chile miners

July 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

The mining sector expected change with the election of left-leaning president Gabriel Boric earlier this year on a ticket of advancing social equality and the drafting of a new Constitution.Read More

FireFox Gold Confirms Near-Surface High-Grade Gold Zone in Drilling at Mustaj??rvi Project

July 13, 2022 / bit.ly

FireFox Gold Corp. (TSX.V:FFOX)(OTCQB:FFOXF)(Read full newsRead More

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