Greenland’s rare earths and EU’s exploitation plan
A new two-party coalition government on the autonomous Danish territory is planning to stop one of the world’s biggest rare earth mining projects over fears...
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Roadmap for Uzbekistan’s privatization of mining assets
Uzbekistan’s government sees the path to achieve economic growth by attracting more private funding to the economy, hence the government needs to sell mining assets....
The future of Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor mine and its environment
Exploration of the Kumtor deposit was done in the late 1970s when Kyrgyzstan was a Soviet republic. It was clear there was a large amount...
Mongolian Government threatens to terminate investment deal for Oyu Tolgoi mine
Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi the world’s largest copper-gold-silver mine is expected to produce 480,000 tonnes of copper per year on average from 2028 to 2036 from...
Xanadu to raise money for copper-gold exploration in Mongolia
In order to fund exploration work at the Kharmagtai copper/gold project, in Mongolia, copper explorer Xanadu Mines will raise A$10.2-million in a share placement. The...
Major Precious Metals’ update on Skaergaard project in Greenland
Junior Major Precious Metals had been granted a new mineral exploration licence in March which increased the size of Skaergaard to 877sq.km. Major Precious Metals...
China’s dominance of strategic resources
Cobalt and germanium are all both rare ores and vital for the production of everyday items like smartphones, solar panels and electric vehicles. The European...
Rio Tinto signed financing deal with Turquoise for Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi expansion project
Claimed to be the world’s largest new copper-gold mines, the Oyu Tolgoi mine is located in Mongolia’s South Gobi region, approximately 550km south of Ulaanbaatar...
Talas Gold Mining Complex in Kyrgyzstan launched
The Jerooy deposit located in Talas Region in northwestern Kyrgyzstan has estimated reserves of nearly 90 tonnes of gold and about 25 tonnes of silver....
Greenland election results could halt rare-earth mining
Since Greenland held its first election in 1979, the social democratic party Siumut has been in power, with only one exception of four years. Now...