LONDON – BHP Billiton, the world’s largest miner, called on governments on Thursday to support the industry’s efforts to slash costs in the face of cooler demand, asking them to rein in demands on royalties, taxes and regulation.
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/bhp-calls-on-governments-to-help-with-cost-cutting-2012-10-25
“Vale might look to divest itself of its New Caledonia Nickel project, whose start up has been delayed due to technological issues”.
http://www.amm.com/Article/3108777/Nonferrous/Vale-to-divest-non-value-adding-nickel-assets.html
The Nickel Processing 2012 conference is to be held from 14-15 November at the Vinyard Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://min-eng.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/nickel-processing-12-conference-diary.html
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) — Recycling keeps paper, plastics, and even jeans out of landfills. Could recycling rare-earth magnets do the same? Perhaps, if the recycling process can be improved.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) representative, Valerie Julliand, announced Tuesday that it has agreed to the Dominican Republic government’s request to review Xstrata Nickel’s environmental impact study for the Loma Miranda project, located in the country’s central region.
http://www.mining.com/xstratas-dominican-vast-nickel-project-in-uns-hands-11950/
SHANGHAI | Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:04am EDT
Oct 23 (Reuters) – Inner Mongolia-based Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech Co, China’s top rare earths producer, will halt some of its smelting and separation operations for a month in an effort to stabilise slumping prices, it said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/23/china-baotou-output-idUSL5E8LN88420121023
A delegation of landowners and provincial reps from Isabel and Choiseul was reportedly impressed at Sumitomo’s nickel operations in the Philippines.
http://www.solomonstarnews.com/news/business/16280-sumitomo-operation-impress-local-team
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd. announces that it has come to an agreement to collaborate with Mintek, an internationally recognized metallurgical research and testwork facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, to further develop and optimize the Montero Stage 1 leaching process.
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Aim- and JSE-listed mine-to-metal specialist Jubilee on Tuesday said it had entered into an agreement for the toll processing of 800 000 t of Dilokong chrome mine platinum-bearing tailings using the concentrator at Platinum Australia’s Smokey Hills mine.
SGS is pleased to announce the completion of a major, multi-million dollar expansion of our mineral processing testwork capabilities in Australia. Existing facilities have been significantly upgraded and a new mineral processing laboratory complex is now operational adjacent to our current location in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
http://www.mining.com/web/sgs-expands-mineral-processing-capabilities-in-australia/
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