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Marius Kloppers said the big mining houses had the capacity to meet the world’s rising demand for fuels and ores in the coming decades in a speech where he also sought to downplay fears expressed by industrialising nations over “resources security”.

Teck Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest base-metals producer, said its partnership with China’s sovereign wealth fund will win the company more coal, copper and zinc sales and provide financing for future acquisitions.

Barrick said Monday it wants to take advantage of a “rarely” available opportunity to buy a well-established, large copper miner by acquiring Equinox and beating a rival hostile bid for the company.<Chinese-owned Minmetals Resources submitted in its own hostile bid valued at $6.3 billion earlier this month, but withdrew its bid early Tuesday.

We show that deep-sea mud contains high concentrations of rare-earth elements and yttrium at numerous sites throughout the eastern South and central North Pacific. We estimate that an area of just one square kilometre, surrounding one of the sampling sites, could provide one-fifth of the current annual world consumption of these elements.

Since Thomas Robert Malthus wrote ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ in 1798, a succession of reports, including Paul Ehrlich’s ‘The Population Bomb’, have focused on doomsday scenarios linking the rapid population growth to scarce and costlier natural resources. Yet, the price of commodities – in real terms, after adjusting by inflation – has, at times, barely reacted to population growth.

About Quellaveco Copper Mine New Development Project of Peru, Mitsubishi Corporation Mineral Resources Investment Division B positions one of next core assets, copper production is expected to increase to annual average of 280,000 tons from 225,000 tons which is existing plan.

All this while crews try to figure how to drill pass the mantle of ice covering 99% of the continent, which is over 2 miles thick, but it stores an abundance of highly sought resources, including coal, iron ore, manganese, copper, lead, uranium, diamonds and billions of barrels of oil reserves.

Much of the volatility in the cable market is tied to the raw material costs on the supply side. As a result, the pricing trends of cables and wires are not entirely driven by market demand. The market is also far from being homogenous, with the end user profiles ranging from wholesale purchasers, telecom operators, retail users, utility managers, power supply companies as well as enterprises. The leverage enjoyed by the buyers is by and large directly proportional to their off take and inversely proportional to the criticality of cables and wires to their operations. While the technology behind cables has remained consistent, it has not stayed static. As with most applied sciences, cables have witnessed a relentless stakeholder drive towards achieving better transmission with lesser resources. This has led to improvement and improvisations in the core conductor as well as its assembly technologies.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. is looking to sell its large Candelaria copper mine in Chile, an asset sale that could raise several billion dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The mine has attracted interest from Magris Resources Inc., a Toronto-based mining-investment vehicle headed by former Barrick Gold Corp. chief executive Aaron Regent, according to these people. Phoenix-based Freeport, which...

A tremendous effort is taking place worldwide to increase the amount of wind and solar generation interconnected to the grid, and it is very successful. Today’s power system has more renewable generation than ever before. With all the financial enticements, regulatory motivations and environmental inducements, tomorrow’s grid will only integrate more of it. As the 21st century power system builds out, it is going to include a lot more wind and solar generation than it does today. To make it all work, there are big changes taking place on the grid and the application of energy storage systems is one of those. They are going to play a critical role in the successful integration of renewable energy resources into the grid.

DeepGreen Metals recently acquired Tonga Offshore Mining Limited (TOML), giving the company exploration rights to a 75,000-square-kilometer block of seabed believed to contain some 756 million wet tons of polymetallic nodules.