Finance & business

Metals and mining industry mergers and acquisitions (M&As) worth US$1.9 billion were announced in September 2019.

BHP has approved US$44 million for BHP Billiton Brasil’s share of funding for work related to the restart of one concentrator at Samarco Mineração S.A.’s operations at its Germano complex in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Newmont Goldcorp Eleonore mine won the ‘Eureka Prize’ from Écotech Québec for its 10th anniversary, Écotech celebrated the pioneers in Quebec who chose to adopt clean technologies.

At its Capital Markets Day, FLSmidth launched MissionZero, a new sustainability programme aimed at significantly reducing emissions across the global cement and mining industries by 2030.

Canada’s metals & mining industry saw a drop of 17.5% in overall deal activity during September 2019, when compared with the last 12 month average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

Total metals and mining industry M&A deals in September 2019 worth US$1.9 billion were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

Maptek’s new global CEO will lead the business at an exciting time for mining.

The World Blockchain Summit is a global series of gatherings that take place in over 10 destinations around the world.

Great Panther mining has announced that James Bannantine, President and CEO, has departed the company.

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has an-nounced that it has joined the Global Mining Guidelines Group.

Inmarsat, a company working in global, mobile satellite communications, will collaborate with geo-spatial Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Glass Terra.

The Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative will pool resources and cost, increase speed-to-market and improve industry-wide trust that cannot be achieved by acting individually.

Seven leading mining and metals companies have partnered with the World Economic Forum to experiment, design and deploy blockchain solutions that will accelerate responsible sourcing and sustainability practices.

FLSmidth and Rio Tinto have executed a five-year, fixed-term global framework agreement (GFA) which enables the parties to engage on the supply of fixed equipment.

Kalium Lakes Limited (KLL) has announced that the company’s 2018 - 2019 R&D tax incentive claim has been completed.