News wire — The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships ferrying dry commodities around the world, posted its biggest weekly gain ever, underpinned by a... Read more
Oslo — Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund is excluding some of the world’s biggest commodities firms from its portfolio for their use and production of coal, including Glencore and Anglo... Read more
Abuja — The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has revealed in its recently-released 2018 Audit Report for the solid minerals sector that Dangote Cement Plc... Read more
Johannesburg — South Africa published new proposed safety guidelines on Tuesday for mines operating during the coronavirus pandemic, which would require that mineworkers be screened, t... Read more
Lagos — Critical and economically significant metals, such as cobalt and nickel, can be recovered profitably from metal refining wastes as well as ores with lower than usual concentrat... Read more
Krakow — Poland’s biggest coal producer, PGG, said on Tuesday it asked unions to accept a cut in hours and pay of up to 20% for three months, which would make the state-run company eli... Read more
Lagos — China’s iron ore production is forecast to decline by 3% to 78.2 Mt in 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19. Between January and February, the operating rates at private iron ore... Read more
Ike Amos Abuja — The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Sunday, disclosed that Nigeria’s Federation Account received N69.47 billion as revenue from the... Read more
Johannesburg — South African coal company Exxaro Resources said it will seek to extract value from the carbon-intensive fossil fuel while it still can, but for the future is focused on... Read more
Lagos — Total metals & mining industry deals for January 2020 worth $502.25m were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked a decrease of 93.6%... Read more
