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Congo moves to monopolise about 25% of all cobalt exports . ABUJA – The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s biggest producer of cobalt, created a State monopoly that will buy all output not extracted by industrial operators in a bid to exert more control ...

Bushveld sets sights on further growth . Integrated primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals delivered record production of 2 833 t of vanadium, in the form of Nitrovan, in the year ended December 31.

Production was 11% higher than the 2...

BMM invites public comment on proposed Gamsberg zinc smelter . Black Mountain Mining (BMM), which is part of Vedanta Zinc International, has published a draft scoping report for public comment on a proposed zinc smelter to be built at the Gamsberg zinc project, ne...

De Beers' rough diamond sales increase in first sight of this year . Diamond miner De Beers' rough diamond sales increased to $545-million for the first sales cycle of this year.

This was higher than the $426-million in sales recorded for the tenth sales cycle of 2019...

Lucapa inks polishing deal at Lulo . PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Diamond miner Lucapa has entered into a cutting and polishing agreement with leading diamond manufacturing group Safdico International over its Lulo alluvial mine, in Angola....

MC Mining lifts coal output, sales in December quarter . The slowdown in the global economy during 2019 continues to adversely affect metallurgical coal markets, but ASX-, Aim- and JSE-listed MC Mining says prices have improved following the quarter ended De...

Multimetal strategy paying off for Jubilee . Aim- and AltX-listed Jubilee Metals Group delivered record platinum group metal (PGM) earnings for the six months ended December 31, on the back of higher output and metal prices, while its chrome oper...

Amplats earnings set to soar despite power outages . JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The shareholders of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) were advised on Tuesday that the earnings of the platinum group metals (PGMs) mining company for the 12 months to...

Standoff between Vedanta, Zambia continues over KCM . Diversified miner Vedanta Resources Holdings has advised that it, and its parent company Vedanta Resources Limited, will this year continue to pursue their rights in respect of the Konkola Copper Mines...

Sibanye’s gold operations achieve safety milestone . Dual-listed miner Sibanye-Stillwater’s South African gold operations achieved ten-million fatality-free shifts on Sunday.

In a statement on Monday, the company indicated that this was a significant m...