Summary of overseas Manganese Mine quotations to China in January 2019 (as of December 21)

China’s rare earth mining and smelting/separation quotas stood at 168,000 mt and 162,000 mt respectively in 2021, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The profits of the mining and raw material manufacturing industry increased by 1.84-fold and 39.6% year-on-year, respectively, in August, which were well above the average level of industries above designated size, said Zhu Hong, a senior statistician at the Department of Industry of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Total import volume of NPI in March 2021 was 334,000 mt. Imports from Indonesia stood at 278,000 mt, an increase of 18.38% month-on-month but a year-on-year decrease of 1.9%. NPI and stainless steel capacity in Indonesia has commissioned simultaneously, and the growth in exports of NPI to China should be limited in the short term;

SMM believes that the current increment of the tungsten ore mining quotas is the highest over the past three years.

In order to achieve a sustainable future, mining giant BHP urges for greater transparency in the pricing mechanisms in the copper market.

China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should deepen cooperation in the mining industry, said Cao Weixing, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources on August 24.

Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced Wednesday the country will use new air quality standards which are loosened from former standards, wenhua.com reported.

Mexican mining exploration industry only attracted $483 million of investment in 2016, a fall of 8.5% on a yearly basis, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

The mining community needs to see a proven track record that crowdsourcing can become another venue for companies to raise much-needed capital, according to one sector-leading executive.

The state-owned iron ore mining major, NMDC Ltd , has set ambitious production and sales targets for 2015-’16.