Zambian president calls rail link connecting copper mines to Angolan port ‘once-in-lifetime’ break
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said a US-backed project to connect Zambia’s copper mines to an Angolan port offers the nation a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.
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Glencore to shut Mount Isa copper mines by 2025, cut 1,000 jobs
Mining News Pro - Miner and trader Glencore is set to close its three underground copper mines in Mount Isa by the end of 2025, in a move that will result in the loss of about 1,000 jobs, newspaper Australian Financial Review reported on Tuesday.
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Glencore to shut Mount Isa copper mines by 2025, cut 1,000 jobs
Mining News Pro - Miner and trader Glencore is set to close its three underground copper mines in Mount Isa by the end of 2025, in a move that will result in the loss of about 1,000 jobs, newspaper Australian Financial Review reported on Tuesday.
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Sibanye CEO says Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines investment not ‘onerous’
Mining News Pro - Sibanye Stillwater, which is among investors bidding to buy Mopani Copper Mines, said the amount of money required to expand output and run the Zambian assets profitably is not “onerous.”
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Zambia plans to choose buyer of Mopani Copper Mines by month-end
Mining News Pro - Zambia’s government has shortlisted companies that have submitted binding offers for Mopani Copper Mines and wants to select a new investor by July 31, its mines minister said on Friday.
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Mopani Copper Mines losses deepen amid search for new investor
Mining News Pro - Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines posted a deeper financial loss last year and lower output, state owner ZCCM Investment Holdings said.
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Glencore, carmakers lead $1bn acquisition of Appian nickel-copper mines in Brazil
Mining News Pro - Private equity firm Appian Capital Advisory is selling its wholly owned Atlantic Nickel and Mineração Vale Verde operations in Brazil to ACG Acquisition Company Limited (LON: ACG) for $1 billion cash, with capital coming from battery metals hungry actors, including Glencore (LON: GLEN) and Volkswagen.
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Peru copper mines aim for output boost in 2023 after protest impact fades
Mining News Pro - Peru’s copper miners hope to increase output in 2023 after recovering from the impact of major protests at the start of the year, industry executives said, despite simmering anti-government anger in the world’s no. 2 producer of the red metal.
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Sibanye-Stillwater eyes Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines
Mining News Pro - Expansion-minded Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW) (NYSE: SBSW) is interested in Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines (MCM), as the mine and smelter complex looking for new investors after Glencore sold the asset to the state mining firm ZCCM-IH in January last year.
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New ways to deal with arsenic in Chile’s copper mines
Mining News Pro - German and Chilean researchers are working on a project aimed at optimizing and advancing copper production processes with a particular focus on addressing the problems posed by sulfur-based ores that contain arsenic.
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Chile to cushion the blow of glacier ban on giant copper mines
Mining News Pro - Chile’s government is looking at a gradual implementation for a proposed ban on mining near glaciers in order to limit the impact on some of the world’s biggest copper mines and their planned projects high in the Andes.
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Chile copper mines dodge radical changes as Convention vote ends
Mining News Pro - Major copper producers from BHP Group to Freeport-McMoRan Inc. will likely avoid drastic changes in the way they do business in Chile as writers of a new constitution wrapped up deliberations on mining proposals.
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Vedanta agrees to suspend lawsuits over Zambia copper mines
Mining News Pro - Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Resources Ltd. confirmed it has agreed to suspend legal action to reclaim copper mines Zambia seized three years ago, pending talks to settle the dispute.
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Zambia ends legal spat with Vedanta over seized copper mines
Mining News Pro - Zambia has agreed to end legal action against billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Resources Ltd. as President Hakainde Hichilema seeks to revive mining output in the southern African country.
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Peru Copper Mines are at a Crisis and may affect the global price
Mining News Pro - To be sure, community conflicts are nothing new in Peru and some of the current unrest is more about protecting water supplies than grabbing a bigger share of the mineral spoils.
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Anglo looks to the sea as water scarcity hits Chile copper mines
Mining News Pro - With no letup in Chile’s years-long drought, Anglo American Plc is looking at developing a desalination project in partnership with state-owned Codelco, Japan’s Mitsui & Co. and a local water utility.
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Sibanye-Stillwater buys nickel-copper mines in Brazil for $1 billion
Mining News Pro - South Africa-based Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW) (NYSE: SBSW) is buying two nickel and copper mines in Brazil from private equity firm Appian Capital Advisory in a $1 billion deal that boosts the company’s growing battery materials portfolio.
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Sibanye-Stillwater in talks to buy two Brazilian nickel-copper mines
Mining News Pro - South African Sibanye-Stillwater is in advanced talks to buy two Brazilian nickel and copper assets, as miners across the globe try securing supplies of the metals used in batteries for electric cars and are key for the transition to a green economy.
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First Quantum shelves stake sale for Zambia copper mines
Mining News Pro - Canadian copper miner First Quantum Minerals has shelved plans to sell a stake in its Zambian copper mines, COO Tristan Pascall said on Wednesday.
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Strike at BHP’s Chile copper mines continues, no end in sight
Mining News Pro - A strike by workers for BHP’s Escondida and Spence copper mines in Chile entered its fifth day on Monday, as the union awaited a decision by labor authorities over whether substitute workers the company called in are legal, a union leader told Reuters.
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Union at BHP’s Escondida, Spence copper mines reject contract offer
Mining News Pro - A union representing workers at BHP’s Escondida and Spence mines in Chile has rejected the company’s contract offer, raising the risk of a strike at the two sprawling copper deposits, the union’s president told Reuters on Friday.
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Strike threat looms at BHP's Escondida and Spence copper mines in Chile
Mining News Pro - A union representing workers at BHP Group's Escondida and Spence copper mines in Chile has called for a strike vote among its members after contract negotiations stalled, the union's president told Reuters on Monday.
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Giant copper mines start to get serious about green hydrogen
Mining News Pro - All the talk about how green hydrogen will help heavy industries kick their fossil fuel habit is starting to turn into action in the biggest copper-producing nation.
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Giant copper mines start to get serious about green hydrogen
Mining News Pro - All the talk about how green hydrogen will help heavy industries kick their fossil fuel habit is starting to turn into action in the biggest copper-producing nation.
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Freeport to expand US copper mines as Biden moves to electrify the nation
Mining News Pro - Freeport-McMoRan is set to approve expansions at several of its US copper mines to capitalize on surging demand for the red metal as President Joe Biden moves to electrify the nation’s automobiles and combat climate change, Chief Executive Richard Adkerson told Reuters.
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