Brazil launches new mining agency days before Temer steps down

Having trouble viewing this email?  View online Mining News Digest Thursday 6 December 2018 Home     Gold     Coal     Copper     Diamond     Iron Ore     Nickel     PGMs     Silver Brazil launches new mining agency days before Temer steps down Changes to Brazil's 50-year-old mining regulations also came in effect Wednesday and include measures that make the country's industry more competitive and sustainable. read » Lucapa kicks off commercial production at Mothae diamond mine The operation will add to the Perth-based company annual output, until now on depending on just one mine — Lulo, in Angola. read » Zimbabwe to let two new private miners dig for diamonds It may even allow foreign investors to hold majority stakes in local operations on condition that part of their output is reserved for domestic downstream industries. read » Lynas mulls legal action as Malaysia conditions licence renewal The Australian rare earths miner said it was disappointed with Malaysia's decision to impose new conditions on its licence to operate in the country, adding it was considering all options, including legal action. read » Atlantic offers resource extension drill results for three projects Atlantic Gold Corp. has updated the results for its most recent resource extension drilling at its three gold projects near Halifax. read » Victoria Gold boosts Eagle's ounces and grade in Yukon The Eagle project, where construction is 60% complete, is part of Victoria Gold's 100%-owned Dublin Gulch gold property, about 375 km north of Whitehorse. read » Troilus Gold builds strategic land position in Quebec Troilus acquired the new land it is calling Troilus North from Emgold Mining Corp. for 3.75 million of its common shares and $250,000 in cash. read » Vale, Glencore team up to explore near Sudbury A joint approach could allow for resources to be unlocked that would likely not otherwise be productive – Ricus Grimbeek, COO, Vale's North Atlantic Operations and Asian Refineries read » Mason updates economics in Lac Gueret FS At 17.9% graphitic carbon, the Lac Gueret deposit is likely one of the highest grade graphite deposits in the world. read » Paulson wins support for replacing only 3 Detour Gold directors For substantive change to take hold at the company, long-term directors who have presided over value destruction and overseen technical failures of prior mine plans need to be replaced. read » High risk/high reward lithium bet drives Argentina Surge High risk, high reward is the bet being made by global lithium miners in Argentina who are brushing aside a recession, a currency crisis and political uncertainty in their hunger for the mineral that helps power electric cars. read » Palladium outshines gold for first time in 16 years Parity with gold is fundamentally justified the market has been in sustained deficit and the effects of that are being borne out," said Marcus Garvey, analyst at ICBC Standard bank read » Vanadium's electric future hobbled by its industrial past Supply scarcity and the resulting price volatility are the two biggest hurdles to vanadium's potential bright electric future. read » Altamira expands land position in Brazil The Vancouver-based miner submitted an application to expand to 300,000 hectares its land position at the Firminho project. read » Vancouver miner buys cobalt-vanadium-uranium project in Saskatchewan Searchlight Resources wants to take advantage of the increased interest in battery technology. read » Congo mining revenues jump 147% in first 9 months of 2018 DRC has collected $1.21 billion in revenues from its mining sector over the first nine months of 2018. read » Brazil prosecutors say Petrobras received bribes from Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol Prosecutors said the companies bribed employees at Petrobras, as the Brazilian state oil company is known, to the tune of $15.3 million between 2009 and 2014. read » Drill results from Spanish Mountain cut more good grades in pit area The selective program targeted the high grade, near surface first zone, and the results did not disappoint. read » Read more news on MINING.com » Home     Gold     Coal     Copper     Diamond     Iron Ore     Nickel     PGMs     Silver About Us   |  Privacy Policy  |  Unsubscribe   |  Contact Us   |  Advertise This email was sent to you by InfoMine Inc. 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