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Rio Tinto scales back international operation
Rio Tinto plans to slow down its international operations in Canada and South Africa as a response to government measures to mitigate the coronavirus spread. Rio Tinto is set to halt the Richards Bay Minerals titanium dioxide operations for 21 days as of midnight on...
Chalice makes significant nickel discovery near Perth
Chalice Gold Mines has discovered a high-grade nickel-copper palladium sulphide zone at its Julimar project in Western Australia. Julimar is one of Chalice’s most recent explorations the company is progressing alongside drilling programs at its Pyramid Hill Gold...
Companies operating in Peru evacuate personnel from mine sites
Peru’s National Association of Mining, Petroleum and Energy -known in Spanish by its initials SNMPE- announced that most of its 60 member companies have evacuated 75% of their personnel from mining sites. The measure followed the declaration of a state of emergency in...
Ecuador’s largest gold and copper mines scale back as coronavirus cases rapidly grow
Ecuador said on Sunday that its largest gold and copper mines would reduce the number of workers and scale back operations to a minimum as the country registers a rapid growth of coronavirus infections. The Fruta del Norte gold mine, operated by Canadian company...