Finance & business

Fortuna Silver Mines has announced that Simon Ridgway has stepped down as Director and Chair of the Board of the company.

Although the pandemic-related impacts and measures reduced productivity in all businesses and postponed the start-up of the new iron ore assets in 2020, Vale remains confident to achieve 400 million tpy capacity by the end of 2022.

Altus Strategies Plc has announced the granting of four gold exploration licences in the Eastern Desert of Egypt to the company's 100% owned subsidiary Akh Gold Ltd.

In preparation for its next phase of growth and its embarkation on de-carbonisation efforts, TOP International Holding has announced the recent appointments of three newly created senior roles.

Vale has entered into a Global Settlement to repair the environmental and social damage resulting from the Brumadinho dam rupture.

Deswik has entered a partnership with Australian environmental consultancy RGS Environmental that will allow both companies to deliver comprehensive life of mine planning solutions to their clients.

Greatland Gold plc has announced that its new CEO, Shaun Day, has commenced his role at the company.

Glencore has confirmed that its Colombian subsidiary, Prodeco, will commence the process of handing its mining contracts back to the Republic of Colombia through the National Mining Agency.

Baru Gold Corp has announced that the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has upgraded its Sangihe Gold Project contract of work to operation production status after a 3 month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.

SunMirror AG has announced that it has received a letter of intent to subscribe to new shares from Barracuda Group Ltd.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Appian Capital Advisory as sponsor on the project financing of the Serrote copper and gold mine in Brazil, owned by Mineração Vale Verde do Brasil Ltda.

IronRidge Resources Ltd has announced that it has now completed the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Joy Transporters Ltd.

Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden) has reported its financial results for 4Q20.

Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd on the delivery of environmentally sound technology for an iron ore pelletising plant to be built in south-west China.

Mining software company, K2fly, has expanded its suite of governance and technical assurance solutions following the announcement of its purchase of Decipher mining.