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South Africa’s proposed chrome ore export tax will hurt miners’ profitability and lead to job losses across the sector, the ...
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Ndlovu went from a rural village in Zimbabwe to becoming the CEO of Thungela Resources, one of South Africa’s most successful coal mining companies.
Ndlovu went from a rural village in Zimbabwe to becoming the CEO of Thungela Resources, one of South Africa's most successful coal mining ...
Copper smelters are now so desperate to find raw material they are paying miners for converting their concentrates into refined metal.
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Some Chinese smelters have agreed to process copper from Chilean miner Antofagasta for no charge, a record low for the industry, but the outcome was better than ...
Some Chinese smelters have agreed to process copper from Chilean miner Antofagasta for no charge, a record low for the industry, but the outcome was better than expected for the smelters, already ...
US and European industry executives say high electricity prices are holding back efforts to rekindle domestic industry ...
The owner of the Port Pirie and Hobart smelters says its operations will "simply not survive" without taxpayer support to combat alleged market distortion from China.
The zero processing fee is a win for smelters, given spot charges are hovering around the negative $43 mark - implying smelters would have to pay copper miners for processing their concentrate.
Chinese copper production stayed at record levels last month, despite a plunge in the fees charged by smelters, piling the pressure on operations elsewhere in the world that compete for feedstock.