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Fed pivot will dominate year of rate cuts in turn of global cycle
The coming 12 months are shaping up as the year of the interest-rate cut. After racing ahead with the most aggressive tightening campaign in decades during 2022 and 2023, central banks around the...
Tianqi, LG, Eramet explore lithium options in Chile meetings
Some of the biggest players in the global battery supply chain held meetings with Chilean authorities late last year as the country with the biggest reserves of lithium gets ready to open up new...
Peruvian miner Buenaventura sees Antofagasta as ally in copper growth plans
After a few weeks digesting Antofagasta’s surprise entry into its shareholder register, Buenaventura sees the new investor as an ally in its copper growth plans rather than a rival eying control of...
Zimbabwe rescues 15 trapped miners alive – Mines Minister
An emergency operation managed to rescue all 15 small-scale Zimbabwean gold miners who had been trapped for four days after a shaft collapsed, according to Mines Minister Soda Zhemu. ”They are all...
Gold CEO scandal is latest black eye for mining as setbacks mount
Endeavour Mining’s shock firing of its chief executive has capped a miserable three months for the global mining industry — and an equally painful period for its shareholders. The world’s biggest...
Eskom ends grid access for Karpowership
Eskom Holdings said it will no longer reserve the transmission capacity it had agreed to set aside for winners of a South African tender for emergency power provision that didn’t meet a Dec. 31...
Chinese miner takes Glencore's cobalt crown as output jumps 170%
China’s CMOC Group boosted its cobalt output by more than 170% last year, with surging production at a new mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo helping the company leapfrog Glencore as the...
Gold Fields pushes back production at Key Chilean mine again
Gold Fields cut its production outlook for 2024 after announcing a new delay at a major project in Chile. The Johannesburg-listed company now expects to produce first gold at its Salares Norte...
Coal financing is still booming – led by China
The amount of bank financing going to mining coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel of them all, remains at surprisingly high levels. Most of it is coming from China. A new report from researchers at...
Australia wants to compete with China on critical minerals, minister King says
Australia wants to compete with China in producing and refining resources vital to the next phase of high-tech manufacturing around the world, according to Minister Madeleine King, backing the...
Resource-rich Congo goes to polls, with Tshisekedi the front runner
Polls opened in resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo as the nation’s citizens vote to choose their leaders for the fourth time since the end of decades of dictatorship and war. Incumbent...
Shipping insurance for red sea transit soars after mounting attacks
The cost of insuring vessels that will transit the Red Sea jumped again this week after mounting attacks in the region forced some ships to avoid the vital waterway. Cover has now surged to about...
Crumbling South African rail prompts Botswana to forge new route
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network. The 1 500 km...
Australia adviser urges improved reporting of methane emissions
Australia needs to improve the accuracy of fossil fuel producers’ reporting on greenhouse-gas emissions, especially on methane releases from opencut coal mines, a review of the nation’s climate...
Eskom soot pollution is at a 31-year-high, 42 times worse than China
Coal-fired power plants operated by South Africa’s state utility are emitting pollutants that primarily cause respiratory diseases such as asthma at almost 42 times the intensity of those in...
Diamond sales slowly restart after efforts to halt price crash
The world’s two biggest diamond miners are selling stones again after the industry all but halted supplies in a desperate attempt to stop a collapse in prices. This year’s rout that was driven by...
Cleveland-Cliffs pivots to share buybacks after losing US Steel to Nippon
Cleveland-Cliffs announced an “aggressive” share-buyback program just months after making an ultimately unsuccessful takeover bid for rival United States Steel Corp. Cliffs shares jumped as much as...
Lithium ends dire year with cautious mood during contract season
Lithium buyers are sounding cautious on the key battery metal’s prospects for next year, even after a huge plunge in prices. Producers have recently been in talks with clients — mostly in Asia — to...
South Africa eyes half of $27bn contingency funds to cut debt
South Africa’s National Treasury is considering withdrawing as much as half of the R497-billion of contingency reserves held by the central bank to help reduce the government’s debt load or fund...
Burkina Faso names new mining Minister in government reshuffle
Burkina Faso’s military leader Ibrahim Traore named Yacouba Zabre Gouba Mining and Energy Minister, replacing Jean-Pierre Boussim, according to a statement on state broadcaster RTB Sunday. The...
Coal’s peak is here, but demise of dirtiest fuel will be slow
Global efforts to boost clean energy and rein in carbon emissions have had a clear impact on coal: consumption of the dirtiest fossil fuel is expected to peak this year. Total consumption of coal...
US frackers are back to haunt Opec’s price strategy
Opec’s one-time nemesis — US shale — is rearing its head just months after the sector was all but written off as a threat to the cartel’s sway over worldwide oil markets. Drillers from the Permian...
Friedland says $15 000/t copper needed to spur new mines
Copper prices need to nearly double in order to prompt mining companies to build costly mines to meet rising demand for critical materials, according to billionaire Robert Friedland. The mining...
Bolivia takes a key step in long road to tapping vast lithium riches
Bolivia is cutting the ribbon on its first industrial-scale lithium plant, the dawn of what it hopes will be an export boom of the battery metal that could bring it back from the brink of economic...
Australia expands list of critical minerals key to transition
Australia expanded its list of critical minerals deemed crucial to its energy transition and national security needs as the country boosts the strategically and economically important sector. The...
Nedbank, Norfund to lend Pele Green R2.5bn for renewable power plants
Pele Green Energy has secured R2.5-billion in funding from lenders including Nedbank Group to help it build renewable power plants including one ordered by Anglo American Platinum. The other...
Transnet halts plan to allow private companies to operate key rail line
State-owned ports and rail company Transnet withdrew a request for quotes for an operating lease on a freight-rail artery that connects its biggest port with its industrial hub, because changes in...
Billionaire Adani’s new copper foray to further tighten world's ore supply
The planned start of billionaire Gautam Adani’s copper plant in India next year will spur a sharp rise in imports of concentrate, further tightening the global supply of ore on which smelters...
Sasol says investors critical of its climate record have ‘flawed understanding’
Sasol has hit back at investors who said they would reject its climate-change report at an annual general meeting last month, before it was abandoned because of a protest. The petrochemicals...
South32 invokes force majeure at Colombia ferro-nickel operation
South32 invoked force majeure at its Colombian nickel operations as community protesters block the movement of people and supplies to the giant open pit mine and smelter. “This affects all our...
Eskom set for seventh full-year loss as power cuts grip South Africa
South Africa’s Eskom Holdings is on track to post its seventh consecutive full-year loss as the utility crumbles under the weight of its debt pile and high financing costs, poor plant performance...
South Africa aims to fire up economic growth with port, rail revival
South Africa’s government and the business community set a target of boosting the economic growth rate by as much as six percentage points by fixing the country’s collapsing ports and freight-rail...
South Africa takes a major step toward fixing work visa mess
South Africa’s home affairs minister signed planned changes to work permit regulations aimed at fixing a bureaucratic morass that’s frustrating the country’s biggest investors and exacerbating a...
COP28 ends with deal on transition away from fossil fuels
The COP28 climate talks in Dubai ended in a deal that saw a commitment to transition away from all fossil fuels for the first time. The president of this year’s UN-sponsored summit, the UAE’s...
As Chile prepares to open lithium assets, this Canadian miner is ready to pounce
Wealth Minerals is lining up funding for lithium drilling and testing in Chile as the Vancouver-based firm waits for the government there to disclose rules for new production areas. Financing...
US sanctions Russian metals magnate Sviblov and gold, zinc firms
The US imposed sanctions on Russian mining magnate Vladislav Sviblov and several mining companies connected to him, including one that’s developing one of the world’s largest zinc mines. The...
Record resources deals rescue a dim year for Australian bankers
Energy and mining deals have dominated Australia’s dealmaking scene like never before this year. About $A111.3-billion ($73-billion) of energy and mining deals have been announced in Australia...
How coal giant Colombia is trying to wean its economy off fossil fuels
Colombia has become the first major coal producer to join a group of nations calling for the end of fossil fuels, in a bid to escape the economic trap it could face as the world ditches the...
The world’s copper supply is suddenly looking scarce
A forecast surplus of copper going into 2024 has suddenly all but disappeared. The next couple of years were supposed to be a time of plenty for copper, thanks to a series of big new projects...
US House approves Russian uranium import ban
The US House voted Monday to approve legislation that would bar the importation of enriched Russian uranium, sending the measure to the Senate where it has support but limited time for passage this...
BHP workers consider strike action at some Australian mines
Workers critical to the operation of five Australian coal mines owned by BHP Group are readying to vote on industrial action that could involve strikes before the end of the year, the AFR reported,...
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