Finance & business

Rio Tinto Canada Uranium Corp. exercises option for Pistol Bay Mining Inc.’s C-block Uranium properties in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Bear Creek Mining Corp. appoints a new Chief Financial Officer.

Triton Minerals signs an offtake agreement with Haida Graphite for graphite concentrate from the Ancuabe Graphite Project in Mozambique.

Avocet Mining Plc finalises the sale of Resolute (West Africa) Ltd to the Balaji Group for US$5 million.

Schneider Electric has partners with Cylance to boost protection against cyber security threats across industrial and infrastructure operations.

The plant will be located in Sandviken, Sweden, and produce titanium and nickel fine metal powders.

South African competition authorities approve Sibanye-Stillwaters’ DRDGOLD transaction.

Plymouth Minerals Ltd announces board and management changes that are hoped to assist with the advancement of the company’s San Jose Lithium-Tin Project in Western Spain.

The unit will be installed at the company's Sunrise dam site in Western Australia.

Mikael Staffas has been appointed as President and CEO, and will take up the position on 1 June 2018.

The acquisition is part of RPM’s strategy to deliver a commercial off-the-shelf enterprise platform for the mining industry.

Mining giant Glencore has reported production declines from its copper, coal and nickel operations for the year end 31 December 2017.

Orvana Minerals Corp. announces the resignation of its Chairman and CEO James Gilbert and the appointment of Juan Gavidia as interim CEO.

Perseus Mining reports positive operating results for the fourth quarter of 2017.

Caterpillar’s Vice President of Global Supply Network Division (GSND) Frank Crespo is to retire at the beginning of February.