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23 October 2018
BASF and Nornickel sign deal to meet battery materials demand
German chemicals company BASF has signed a deal with Russia’s nickel and palladium mining firm Nornickel to form a strategic cooperation to meet the growing demand for battery materials that...
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23 October 2018
Black Rock signs deal to supply graphite from Mahenge Mine
Black Rock Mining has signed an offtake agreement for the supply of natural flake graphite from its 100%-owned Mahenge Graphite Mine in Tanzania to Chinese company Heilongjiang Bohao Graphite.
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23 October 2018
Independence Group to install solar facility at Nova mine
Independence Group (IGO) has amended its power purchase agreement (PPA) with Zenith Energy to incorporate a solar photovoltaic (Solar PV) facility at the Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine in the Fraser Range...
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22 October 2018
US EPA withdraws Obama administration uranium safety regulation
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn a uranium safety proposal introduced in the last days of the Obama administration that would have introduced tighter regulation for uranium mill...
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22 October 2018
Lonmin signs $200m metal agreement with Pangaea Investments
Platinum miner Lonmin has signed a $200m metal purchase agreement with Pangaea Investments Management (PIM), an associate company of Jiangxi Copper Company (JCC).
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22 October 2018
Coal mine accident traps 22 people in China
Twenty-two miners were trapped in a coal mine accident in Shandong province of China after a rock burst on Saturday night.
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22 October 2018
Galena to divest non-core assets into separate entity
Galena Mining has announced its plans to divest its non-core assets into a separate entity, Metal Range, which will be self-funded and operate independently.
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19 October 2018
Two more miner deaths in South Africa as safety summit takes place
The South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has announced two deaths at mining operations, taking the total number of mining deaths in South Africa this year to...
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19 October 2018
M&As this week: Bis Industries, Polymetal International
Bis Industries has acquired UGM for an undisclosed sum in a move to strengthen its existing underground services business.
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19 October 2018
Freeport subsidiary to acquire 80% stake in Chilean copper property
Freeport-McMoRan’s subsidiary Minera Freeport-McMoRan South America has signed an option agreement with Solaris Copper’s subsidiary Minera Ricardo Resources to acquire up to 80% in the early-stage Ricardo copper-molybdenum property in...
