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COBALT: Anglo Pacific buys $205m Voisey’s Bay cobalt stream
- Date: 24-02-21
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Mining Weekly
Royalty and streaming company Anglo Pacific on Wednesday announced the $205-million acquisition of a holding company that owns a 70% net interest in a stream on cobalt production from the Voisey's Bay mine, in Canada, progressing its ambition to focus on commodities that support a more sustainable world.
View full storyCOBALT: Sherritt meets 2020 guidance, but shares fall
- Date: 26-01-21
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Mining.com
Sherritt International (TSX: S) on Monday reported its production results for full-year 2020, and also provided guidance for expected production, unit costs and capital spending in 2021.
View full storyCOBALT: Democratic Republic of Congo says China has granted pandemic-linked debt relief
- Date: 07-01-21
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Reuters
KINSHASA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - China has granted some debt relief to Democratic Republic of Congo to help it overcome economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Congolese foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
View full storyCOBALT: R&B star Akon enters Congo mining sector in JV with state company
- Date: 06-01-21
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Mining.com
A company led by American-Senegalese R&B singer Akon has signed a deal to finance a copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a joint venture with a state miner, according to a contract published by the mines ministry.
View full storyCOBALT: Congo imposes travel ban on mining traceability director
- Date: 17-12-20
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Reuters
The Congolese government has banned the head of the state mineral certification body from leaving the country as a fraud investigation is underway, the mines minister said on Thursday.
View full storyCOBALT: Trafigura's Congo artisanal cobalt project to end, replaced by industrial mining
- Date: 17-12-20
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Reuters
Trafigura is ending an artisanal cobalt formalisation project in Democratic Republic of Congo, which it has run alongside miner Chemaf and NGO PACT for nearly two years, the commodities trader said on Thursday.
View full storyCOBALT: China Moly buys 95% of DRC copper-cobalt mine from Freeport for $550m
- Date: 14-12-20
- Category: COBALT
- Source: Mining.com
China Molybdenum Co said on Sunday it had acquired a 95% stake in the Kisanfu copper-cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from U.S.-based Freeport-McMoRan Inc for $550 million.
View full storyCOBALT: A large trader has taken over Vale's stake in the Goro nickel-cobalt mine, MHP production to continue in 2021
- Date: 07-12-20
- Category: COBALT
- Source: News Metal
Vale's chief financial officer, Luciano siani Pires, said a few months ago that its Goro nickel-cobalt mine in New Caledonia could begin to suspend in 2021 as the company failed to reach a sale agreement with New Century Resources Limited (NCZ) on VNC (Novele Caledonie SAS).
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