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In this ‘IOM3 Investigates’, Colin is joined by Anne Oxley (Brazilian Nickel) and Carl Nicholas (Mineesia)

Lithium carbonate has been successfully produced from two UK sources – one from Cornish Lithium’s Trelavour project site in Cornwall and another from Scotland. High-purity lithium carbonate is a raw material for lithium-ion battery cells, such as those used in electric vehicles.

One of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people - could have been foreseen with the right monitoring technology, according to a new study by the University of Nottingham and Durham University, UK. The high-profile catastrophe took place on 25 January 2019 at a tailings dam near the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, close to the town of Brumadinho, in the Minas Gerais state in south-east Brazil.

A total of 400Mt of essential aggregates, industrial minerals and other manufactured mineral products were produced in Great Britain in 2018, according to the latest figures published by the UK Mineral Products Association (MPA). This is said to be the UK’s biggest producer by volume.

In a statement covering ongoing tax issues and legal action, Turqoiuse Hill ,a partner in the venture states that many issues remain around the Oyu Tolgoi mine, Mongolia.

The Ktunaxa Nation and Teck Resources Limited have signed a Joint Management Agreement for more than 7,000 hectares of land in Canada.

The Greenland government has begun consultations on the Kvanefjeld rare earths and uranium mine.

A new species of mineral has been described by the Natural History Museum, arising from the UK.

This month the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) published a series of equivalency benchmarks comparing mining principles.

A landslide at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brazil killed one person on Friday.