Apple buys first-ever carbon-free aluminum from Alcoa-Rio Tinto venture

The Alcoa-Rio joint venture wants to commercialize a technology by 2024 that uses a ceramic anode to make aluminum and emits only oxygen.

Reuters | December 5, 2019 | 12:11 pm

Kinross walks away from Ecuador project with Lundin stake sale

It is selling its remaining 20.7 million shares in the Vancouver-based gold miner to the other two major investors — Newcrest and the Lundin Family Trust.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 5, 2019 | 9:39 am

TSXV greenlights ATEX’s acquisition of Chilean copper project

Shares in the Vancouver-based company start trading today.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 5, 2019 | 6:20 am

Barminco’s remote system operates loaders 1,000 kilometres away

The subsidiary of fellow Australian company, Perenti, successfully piloted its BROC remote operating centre.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 5, 2019 | 6:15 am

Uranium miners rise after Trump panel urges US buy domestic

Any government intervention could be a windfall for the handful of domestic uranium miners, including Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy, two companies that earlier petitioned the White House to put a 25% domestic market quota on foreign imports .

Bloomberg News | December 5, 2019 | 5:48 am

Canada looks into mining critical minerals for US market

Natural Resources Canada plans to hire a British firm to provide 10-year market forecasts for nearly two dozen vital minerals and metals.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 5, 2019 | 3:44 am

Buying iron ore is getting more like shopping on Amazon

The world’s biggest iron ore miners are looking for novel ways of satisfying their customers and protecting market share in the $150 billion global industry.

Bloomberg News | December 4, 2019 | 3:30 pm

Teck signs $95 million shipping deal, stock jumps

The five-year deal would result in significantly increased shipping volumes of steelmaking coal from the Kamloops operations to Vancouver's Neptune Terminal.

Jackson Chen | December 4, 2019 | 12:23 pm