DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pour une troisième année consécutive sans précédent, Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE : NEM) a été classée par l’indice mondial de durabilité Dow Jones (DJSI World), leader mondial de l’industrie minière en durabilité. L’inclusion de Newmont dans l’indice marque également la 11e année consécutive que la société a été choisie pour faire partie du DJSI World. Cette année, 942 sociétés ont participé à l’évaluation CSA (évaluation de la durabilité d’entreprise) de RobecoSAM

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Por terceiro ano consecutivo, sem precedentes, a Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) foi classificada pelo Índice Mundial de Sustentabilidade da Dow Jones (DJSI World) como a empresa líder global em sustentabilidade da indústria de mineração. A inclusão da Newmont no índice também marcou o 11º ano consecutivo em que a empresa foi selecionada para o DJSI World. Neste ano, 942 empresas participaram da Avaliação de Sustentabilidade Empresarial (CSA) da RobecoSAM, que av

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) announced it will report third quarter 2017 operations and financial results before the market opens on Thursday, October 26, 2017 and will hold a conference call at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time) the same day. The earnings call will also be carried on the Company’s website. Conference Call Details         Dial-In Number         855.209.8210 Intl Dial-In Number 412.317.5213 Conference Name Newmo

Oil and gas infrastructure company TransCanada said the viability of its Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects is in doubt after the Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) last month released a broader scope under which the environmental assessments (EAs) for the two projects will be dealt with.
The TSX- and NYSE-listed oil and gas major has asked the NEB to suspend for 30 days its applications in an effort to stop the clock on the NEB’s application processing timeline, while giving TransCanada time to conduct a careful review of the changes announced by the NEB on August 23, regarding the list of issues and EA factors of the projects, while understanding how these changes impact the projects’ costs, schedules and viability.

CALGARY, Alberta–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dominion Diamond Corporation (TSX: DDC, NYSE: DDC) (the “Company” or “Dominion”) today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”), two leading independent proxy advisory firms, have both recommended that shareholders of Dominion vote FOR the special resolution (the “Arrangement Resolution”) at the upcoming special meeting (the “Meeting”) of the shareholders to approve a statutory Plan of Arra

Canadian precious metals streaming firm Franco-Nevada has added another gold/silver stream on First Quantum’s massive $5.5-billion Cobre Panama project, in Panama.
First Quantum intends to use the proceeds to partially fund its acquisition of a further 10% interest in Cobre Panama from one of its joint venture partners, LS Nikko Copper.

Eastern Canadian gold producer Anaconda Mining is set to ramp up the mining rate at its Point Rousse project’s Pine Cove pit, after the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources approved a plan to use the nearly depleted pit as a tailings storage facility.
Anaconda had previously filed an application with the department to amend the Pine Cove property development plan and rehabilitation and closure plan to utilise the Pine Cove pit as a seven-million-tonne in-pit tailings storage facility.

The merger of potash and crop fertiliser majors Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Agrium Inc is making progress on the regulatory front in all remaining jurisdictions, but at a slower-than-expected pace, pushing out the expected closure by about three months to late in the fourth quarter, the companies advised on Thursday.
The transaction, billed as a “merger of equals” that will see the creation of a new $36-billion entity, to be named Nutrien, is working its way through the regulatory review and approval process in several jurisdictions.

Diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), which saw its headline earnings soar in the 12 months to June 30, has catapulted its dividend to heady heights. The 189%-higher dividend of 650 cents a share is ARM’s highest dividend to date and the eleventh consecutive yearly dividend paid by the company, headed by executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe.

Lithium developer Pilbara Minerals has awarded an openpit mining contract for its Pligangoora lithium project to Maca.

Pilbara said on Thursday that with an initial two-year term, plus three one-year options to extend, the contract was a key operational contract for the Pilgangoora project, and follows the completion of a competitive tender process and due diligence process.

South Africa’s Mineral Resource Minister Mosebenzi Zwane on Thursday stuck to his guns about the introduction of the much-maligned Mining Charter, telling a mining conference audience in Perth that it was the prerogative of the government to ensure policy and regulatory certainty.

Zwane said at the 15th yearly Africa Downunder conference that the Mining Charter was the culmination of “over a year of engagement and consultation with stakeholders”.

Dual-listed Canadian gold producer Alamos Gold has substantially completed construction of the first phase of the La Yaqui mine, near its cornerstone Mulatos mine, in Mexico, the Toronto-based company said on Thursday.
Gold production at the satellite deposit has started and is expected to contribute significantly to a growing production profile and substantially lower costs going forward.

An expansion study at the Nullagine gold project, in Western Australia, has confirmed that production could be increased to about 100 000 oz/y, up from the current 2017 targets of between 75 000 oz and 80 000 oz.

The expansion study found that ASX-listed Millennium Minerals’ plan to integrate a flotation circuit capable of treating sulphide ores with the existing two-million tonne a year carbon-in-leach plant, is technically and economically sound.

With a new geological model and funding raised, TSX-listed Broadway Gold Mining is planning a Phase III drill programme to test multiple high-priority targets, the company announced on Thursday.
The copper/gold porphyry targets were discovered at depth at the company’s 100%-owned Madison project, where the company undertook detailed exploration programmes in 2017, that extended over a 3.22 km-long by 1.6 km-wide zone of geophysical, geological and geochemical indicators.

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) è stata classificata dall’Indice mondiale della sostenibilità di Dow Jones (DJSI World) quale azienda leader del settore minerario in termini di sostenibilità generale per il terzo anno consecutivo, il che costituisce un record. L’inclusione di Newmont nell’indice rappresenta inoltre l’11mo anno consecutivo di selezione della società per l’indice DJSI World. Quest’anno 942 aziende hanno partecipato alla Valutazione della sostenibil

Crushing operations have started at the Burbanks gold treatment plant, in Western Australia, ASX-listed Maximus Resources reported on Thursday.

Ore from ASX-listed Empire Resources’ Penny’s Find project was introduced to the crusher earlier this week, under a toll treatment agreement which would see Empire supply up to 150 000 t of ore from the Penny’s Find project to the Burbanks treatment plant.

Base metals developer Heron Resources has completed a A$141-million equity funding package, as part of its greater A$240-million funding to develop the Woodlawn zinc/copper project, in New South Wales.

The company on Thursday said that the equity funding included a A$104-million cornerstone investor placement to Greenstone Resources and co-investor Orion Mine Finance Group and Castlelake LP, as well as a A$32-million institutional placement.

Australian oil and gas major Santos on Thursday announced that it would supply a further 30 petajoules (PJ) of gas to the east coast domestic market between 2018 and 2019.

The ASX-listed company reported that the gas, which would be sourced from the Gladstone liquefied natural gas (GLNG) project, had initially been earmarked for export, but would now be sold to east coast customers, including power companies.

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Newmont Ranked Mining Industry Leader by Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Third Consecutive Year

India needs to partner with other countries to tap cheaper funds for cleaner coal technologies as the South Asian nation is expected to use the fuel to produce over half of its power in the next two decades, the World Coal Association chief said on Thursday. India, the world’s second-largest coal importer, relies on the fuel for about 78% of its electricity generation. The federal think tank NITI Aayog has projected coal’s share in the country’s overall energy mix will reduce to 48% to 54% by 2040 from around 55% in 2015.

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–H-D Advanced Manufacturing Hires New President & CEO; Michael Vincent Previously Led HDAM’s Engineered Solutions Group

Test work on a 300 kg bulk sample of graphite mineralisation taken from Aim-listed Armadale Capital’s Mahenge Liandu project, in Tanzania, has produced graphite concentrates with exceptional purity of up to 99.1% total graphitic carbon, the company said on Thursday. Excellent flake size distributions were maintained through the process with about 75% in the higher value sizes above 106µ. The bulk sample was processed using a conventional crushing and flotation circuit, indicating that concentrates of excellent quality can be produced with relatively low processing cost.

All South Africans need to work together to ensure that the South African mining industry is a globally competitive investment destination, said African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe on Thursday, when he declared the black-controlled company’s highest-ever dividend. “We have a lot to be proud of and together we’ll make this industry the globally competitive industry that we want it to be,” Motsepe said at the company’s presentation of 204%-higher headline earnings to R3 196-million in the 12 months to June 30.

All South Africans need to work together to ensure that the South African mining is a globally competitive investment destination, said African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe on Thursday, when he declared the black-controlled company’s highest-ever dividend. “We have a lot to be proud of and together we’ll make this industry the globally competitive industry that we want it to be,” Motsepe said at the company’s presentation of 204%-higher headline earnings to R3 196-million in the 12 months to June 30.

Aim-listed GoldStone Resources has completed a deep trenching programme – the first step of a pit definition programme – on the Akrokerri licence, in Ghana.   The trenching was undertaken to define the extent of the mineralisation in the near-surface oxide zone of the known deposit and augment the findings from the continued review by the company of the historical database for the Homase and Akrokerri licences.

Mining production growth slowed to 0.9% year-on-year in July, compared with production growth of 1.3% year-on-year in June. Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA’s) latest mining production report, published on Thursday, showed that manganese ore, chromium ore, diamonds and gold were the main contributors to the increase.

Aim-listed gold and exploration company Stratex has completed an extensive due-diligence review into ASX-listed Crusader Resources’ Brazil-based Borborema gold project, identifying potential optimisation opportunities that are expected to yield material economic gains and lower upfront capital spend. Stratex, which is in the process of acquiring Brazil-focused Crusander in an all-share deal, said in an update on Thursday that it intends to reflect these optimisation opportunities in its planned bankable feasibility study (BFS) on Borborema. 

Uranium developer Bannerman Resources is optimistic about the future of the uranium price, with CEO Brandon Munro telling delegates at the 15th yearly Africa Downunder conference, in Perth, that the current decade-low prices are unsustainable.

“The uranium spot price is languishing at a decade low price of $20/lb,” Munro said on Thursday.

WESTFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–High-performance optical filters from Materion Corporation’s (NYSE: MTRN) Precision Optics business, equipped on a Harris Corporation imaging instrument on the nation’s next-generation weather satellite, GOES-16, are poised to serve a crucial and expanded role in helping meteorologists pinpoint and track an area of gathering storms in much greater detail than allowed by previous technology. When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-

DRDGold says it has spent more money on vegetating tailings dams than it has paid dividends to shareholders in the last ten years and is seeing its dump vegetation effort going up in smoke. Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer speaks to Creamer Media’s Sashnee Moodley about the challenges.

Rare earths are booming again as a clampdown on wildcat miners in China crimps supply in the world’s biggest producer while the clean energy boom bolsters their use in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines.

Prices for “light” rare earths including neodymium and praseodymium have exploded in recent months as traders and consumers snap up material that’s becoming scarcer.

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli said on Thursday he had ordered a review of a contract belonging to Petra Diamonds in Tanzania and asked senior public officials to resign over the outcome of a probe into the sector. “I have endorsed all the recommendations of the parliamentary probe committees for the review of the Williamson Diamond mine contract,” Magufuli said in a television broadcast, referring to a mine that Petra owns.

Russian diamond major Alrosa on Thursday reported a 3.3% year-on-year increase in rough and polished diamond sales, in what is traditionally a low season for trading. The company sold $257.6-million worth of diamonds in August, comprising rough diamond sales of $255.7-million and polished diamond sales of $1.9-million.

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Donaldson (NYSE: DCI) reports Q4 and full-year 2017 sales up 11.2% and 6.8%; GAAP Q4 EPS up 15.9% and FY up 22.5%. Projects FY 2018 sales up 4-8%.

Mining development company Atalaya Mining has posted a net profit of €10.92-million for the six months to June 30. The Aim- and TSX-listed company, which declared commercial production at its Proyecto Riotinto mine, in Spain, in February 2016, produced 17 863 t of copper in the six months under review, compared with the 8 489 t produced in the first half of 2016.