Sotkamo Silver Oy and Veljekset Toivanen Oy have signed a mining contract of the Silver Mine.

DMT GROUP, the global engineering and consultancy group, is launching a new Digital Transformation Office (‘DTO’) to strengthen its support for small and medium sized mining businesses needing to introduce digitalisation across their people, operations, processes and sustainability obligations.

Metso Outotec has successfully completed the divestment of its Metal Recycling business line to Mimir, an investment company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Recently the gold price development has been very positive. Endomines has investigated possibilities to develop other parts and known gold deposits within the Karelian Gold Line area to increase gold production levels at the Pampalo mill.

Akobo Minerals (Euronext Oslo – “AKOBO”), the Scandinavian-based Ethiopian gold exploration and boutique mining company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with the South African company Solo Resources (Pty) Ltd for delivery of a processing plant for production of gold at the Segele Mine.

As a result of Russia’s military actions against Ukraine, the European Union, the United States and other countries have announced severe sanctions against Russia. While the mining industry is currently not directly targeted by the sanctions, sanctions against the banking sector and individuals as well as other restrictions may have an impact on Metso Outotec and our customers’ Russia related businesses. Due to the current unclear and changing sanction situation, Metso Outotec has temporarily ceased its deliveries to Russia.  

Boliden has started sales of zinc with a low climate footprint. The new product emits less than 1 tonne of carbon dioxide emissions per tonne of zinc, compared with the industry average of 2.5 tonnes. Low carbon zinc will stand for 18 percent of Boliden's total zinc production. 

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, convened the inaugural Future Minerals Forum (FMF), in Riyadh from January 11 to 13, 2022 to advance dialogue on future minerals, investment in mining, and collaboration across the region from Africa to Central Asia.

Nickel production at the Harjavalta smelter has been stopped due to a slag explosion that was the result of a process malfunction in the nickel electric furnace slag tapping system on December 24. 

Metso Outotec has been awarded a contract for the delivery of key technology to the Boliden Odda zinc smelter expansion in western Norway.

Lundin Mining Corporation announce it has entered into a definitive agreement with Josemaria Resources Inc. to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Josemaria Resources through a plan of arrangement for an implied equity value of approximately C$625 million (US$485 million).

Sibanye-Stillwater (Tickers JSE: SSW and NYSE: SBSW) announced that it received an average ‘A-’ rating for its ‘Water Security’ by CDP, a non-profit global environmental disclosure platform. It was the first time that the Group participated in the Water Security category and benchmarks higher than the Global and Africa regional average of ‘B’, and the metallic mineral mining sector average of ‘B-‘.

Global platinum production is expected to recover by 21.9% in 2021 after a steep decline in 2020, says GlobalData. The leading data and analytics company notes that recovery in the automotive and jewelry sectors has led to a rise in demand for platinum production, which will reach 6.03 million ounces (moz).

BHP Group (BHP) and Woodside Petroleum Ltd (Woodside) have today signed a binding share sale agreement (SSA) for the merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside (Merger). Woodside will acquire the entire share capital of BHP Petroleum International Pty Ltd (BHP Petroleum) in exchange for new Woodside shares. 

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement for the delivery of key equipment for the expansion of an existing production line at the Ferrexpo Poltava Mining iron ore grate-kiln pellet plant, which is located in the mining city of Horishni Plavni in central Ukraine.

Endomines AB started the recruitment for a permanent CEO in the summer 2021 after Marcus Ahlström, Interim CEO and CFO of the company had informed the Board that he will be stepping down in October.

The recruitment process has proceeded very well and as planned. The company anticipates being able to appoint the new permanent CEO in the beginning of 2022.

Boliden has been granted an environmental permit for an increase in the annual production rate in Garpenberg. As a result of the decision, bottleneck investments can be initiated with the aim of increasing production to 3.3 Mtons per year.  

Metso Outotec will deliver a high-capacity, high-powered Premier™ SAG mill to Northern Star Resources Limited’s Thunderbox gold mine expansion located in Yandal Belt, north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Metso Outotec has signed an agreement to deliver industry-leading dewatering, flotation and automation equipment for the Nornickel Talnakh processing plant expansion project in Norilsk, Russia. The order value, which is not disclosed, has been booked in Minerals’ Q2 and Q3 2021 orders received.