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Codelco CEO vows to pursue community buy-in over lithium expansion
Published: 17 Apr 24
Chile's State-run miner Codelco has made progress in negotiating with local communities over lithium mining and will keep working to win their support, CEO Ruben Alvarado said on Tuesday, a day after several groups in the Atacama salt flat broke off talks.
The world's top copper producer has been in dialogue with indigenous groups on the details of a new, state-mandated joint venture in the Atacama salt flat with Chile's SQM, one of two lithium miners in the country.
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Canada unions brace for 2025 labour crunch in oil sands maintenance season
Published: 17 Apr 24
Annual maintenance on Canada's oil sands plants is forecast to cause no more disruption than usual this year, but trade union officials are warning of a labour crunch during Alberta's 2025 turnaround season as construction takes off on two new industrial projects.
Every year producers in Alberta hire thousands of extra skilled workers to execute essential maintenance on oil sands upgraders, thermal projects and refineries. Canada is the world's fourth-largest oil producer, and roughly two-thirds of its 4.9-million barrels per day (bpd) of crude come from northern Alberta's oil sands.
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Canada to give Indigenous groups loan guarantees for resource projects
Published: 17 Apr 24
Canada will provide up to C$5-billion in loan guarantees to help Indigenous groups invest in natural resource projects, the Liberal government said in its annual budget on Tuesday.
The program could give the groups major investment opportunities, from the government-owned Trans Mountain oil pipeline to TC Energy's Coastal GasLink pipeline, power lines and wind and solar projects.
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Brazil court again suspends Vale's Sossego copper mine licence
Published: 17 Apr 24
A local court in Brazil has again suspended the operating license for Vale's Brazilian Sossego copper mine, the company and the country's Para state said.
The state won an appeal overturning a previous court ruling that had reinstated the mine's operating license, Vale said.
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Endeavour accused of misleading buyer of two African gold mines
Published: 16 Apr 24
Endeavour Mining has been accused by Lilium Mining of misrepresentation over the sale of two African gold mines, as the fallout from the tenure of ousted CEO Sebastien de Montessus continues. Lilium made the allegations after purchasing the Wahgnion and Boungou projects in Burkina Faso last June. It’s part of a counterclaim that alleges “misrepresentation and concealment of information relevant to the financial position and operating capabilities” of those mines, according to a statement from Lilium on Monday.
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Hummingbird continues discussions with Corica, progresses with mining activities at Kouroussa
Published: 16 Apr 24
Amid ongoing discussions with mining services provider Corica, Aim-listed Hummingbird Resources says it is progressing with the restart and ramp-up of mining activities at the Kouroussa gold mine, in Guinea, with the goal of achieving commercial production as soon as possible. The company says it has continued to engage with Corica, seeking resolution to disputes between the companies that led to Corica halting work at Kouroussa last month.
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Saldanha iron-ore terminal shut down for maintenance until Friday
Published: 16 Apr 24
State-owned Transnet Port Terminals’ (TPT’s) Saldanha Iron Ore Terminal has embarked on a five-day shutdown for the maintenance and servicing of equipment on two tipplers, starting on April 15. The tipplers, which are critical machines in the terminal’s operations, facilitate the offloading of iron-ore from train wagons onto conveyor belts before it is loaded into vessels scheduled for export.
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Stage 16 loadshedding code seeks to reduce human error not signal imminent surge in cuts – Nersa
 Published: 16 Apr 24
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has belatedly moved to quell concern that its recent approval of a new loadshedding code of practice, which increases the number of potential stages from eight to 16, represented a signal that the prospect for higher levels of loadshedding was imminent. Following extensive public consultations undertaken by the National Rationalised Specifications (NRS) Association of South Africa, the third edition of the NRS048-9 standard was approved by the regulator for use by Eskom and municipal system operators during times of electricity constraint.
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Native American group seeks to overturn US court ruling on Rio's Arizona copper mine
Published: 16 Apr 24
A Native American group has asked all members of a US appeals court on Monday to overturn an earlier ruling that granted land to Rio Tinto for a copper mine in Arizona, saying the land was sacred and culturally significant.
A ruling from a smaller group of the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals had earlier this month ruled that the federal government may give away thousands of acres in US state Arizona to Rio Tinto and minority partner BHP for the Resolution Copper project.
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German coal mines emit much more methane than reported, study says
Published: 16 Apr 24
German coal mines spew 184 times more methane than what the country reports to the United Nations, according to a new analysis by Ember.
The energy think tank used methodology developed by scientists that takes into account the gas content of coal and mining depths to estimate the emissions, which cast fresh scrutiny on Germany’s strategy of pivoting towards fossil fuels in the wake of Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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