March 26, 2021

Alrosa fetches $23.9m in three diamond auctions

The world’s top diamond miner by output held three “special-size diamonds” auctions to celebrate its Jubilee Auction #100.

March 26, 2021

Kaz Minerals bidders up takeover bid to $5.5 billion

Nova Resources has raised its offer for the miner by 9%, after minority shareholders said they would reject earlier proposals for being too low.

March 17, 2021

China backing autocratic regimes to secure resources — report

Autocratic regimes represent for Beijing greater supply stability than democracies that are, or may become, hostile to China, Verisk Maplecroft says.

March 7, 2021

Nornickel to provide $2bn for Norilsk’s development

Industrial waste clean-up is among the priorities set up in a deal signed between the miner and federal government and regional authorities.

March 4, 2021

Resource nationalism surge spells rough times for miners

Resource nationalism has been on the rise over the past year, but Verisk Maplecroft believes the worst is yet to come for miners as governments try to claw back the…

February 28, 2021

Tycoon Usmanov’s firms to build plant for greener iron products

USM and Metalloinvest Holding Co.’s iron ore mine plan to make 2 million tons of hot-briquetted iron per year.

February 21, 2021

Three people die in partial collapse of Nornickel’s Arctic processing plant

The plant located in Arctic Siberia partially collapsed during maintenance.

February 16, 2021

Adding copper salts to coal may increase combustion efficiency – study

Russian researchers found that adding copper salts to coal reduces the content of unburnt carbon in ash residue by 3.1 times and CO content by 40%.

February 15, 2021

ALROSA sells $10m at year’s first diamond auction in Dubai

Demand for our rough began to recover late last year and now remains stable, the miner said.

February 12, 2021

Polyus switches 90% of its energy consumption to renewables

Company expects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 by almost half.