
Rio Tinto halts Simandou after fatal accident
Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) has halted operations at its Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, after a contractor’s death.
The fatal incident occurred at the SimFer port site of the project on Saturday.

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) has halted operations at its Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, after a contractor’s death.
The fatal incident occurred at the SimFer port site of the project on Saturday.

Chen Jinghe was not long out of university when a government official handed him the assignment that would change his life. Go to Zijin mountain, he was told, and find gold.
It was.

Indian State government-run Odisha Coal and Power Limited (OCPL) is looking to sell surplus coal from its mine in eastern India at a discount, an auction document showed, indicating lower demand for.

European makers of stainless steel are turning to Indonesia for nickel as the country’s booming output forces plants in other countries to shutter.
Exports to Europe of Indonesian nickel pig iron — an.

China Minmetals will take control of a province-backed lithium company in a bid to speed development of a “world-class” industry extracting the battery material from salt lakes in the far west of.

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“There is no significant improvement in demand for steel products,.

The world’s surplus of refined copper quadrupled in the first half of 2024 compared to a year ago following a growth in production and recovery in mine output, preliminary data from the.

The World Diamond Council’s (WDC’s) revised System of Warranties (SoW) is set to reach its first critical deadline on September 21, when it becomes obligatory for all rough diamond sales.
“We strongly urge.

Russia will regularly buy diamonds from sanctions-hit producer Alrosa through a state fund, the finance ministry said on Thursday, a move that suggests Western restrictions on Russia’s diamond exports may be having.

Researchers are evaluating several paths to create super diamonds, scientifically known as eight-atom body-centred cubic (BC8) crystals.
A recent paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters explains that BC8 is a distinct.