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2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Eric Onstad |Veronica Brown |Joe Bavier

LONDON (Reuters) -When Fidra Energy acquired a 55-acre (22-hectare) patch of northern England countryside in 2023, its plan to transform it into a 1.45 gigawatt energy storage facility - Europe's largest once completed - was far from a done deal.

2 weeks ago | mining.com | Hongmei Li |Lewis Jackson |Veronica Brown

Unusually large shipments of copper to the United States are unlikely to abate as long as the threat of tariffs hangs over the market and price premiums for the metal on US-based COMEX make deals profitable for traders and producers, analysts said. Since February, when US President Donald Trump ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on imports of copper vital for electric vehicles, power grids and construction, prices of the metal on COMEX have soared.

3 weeks ago | mining.com | Divya Rajagopal |Veronica Brown |David Goodman

A Malian judge is expected to order on Thursday the reopening of Barrick Mining’s Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine under new management at the request of Mali’s government, three people familiar with the matter said. The order would represent a major escalation of a dispute between the country and the Canadian miner that has seen operations suspended since January.

1 month ago | mining.com | Pavel Polityuk |Christian Lowe |Veronica Brown

The financial payoff from a new minerals deal between Ukraine and the US is likely to take a decade or longer as investors face many hurdles to getting new mines into production in the war-ravaged country. Developing mines that produce strategically important minerals in countries with established mining sectors such as Canada and Australia can take 10 to 20 years, mining consultants said on Thursday. But most mineral deposits in Ukraine have scant data to confirm they are economically viable.

1 month ago | msn.com | Polina Devitt |Veronica Brown

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