2020 May in Review

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AMERICAS

• How Low Can The Iron Ore Price Go?
• Mining considered essential to US Covid-19 response
• Cambodia Government calls for new mining exploration bids
• Stronger Chinese steel output has seen backing iron ore prices in Q2
• Coming up on the Mining Agenda
• NMDC Reduces Iron Ore Prices For April Amid Weak Demand
• Greenland waives miners’ 2020 license fees
• Polyus to initiate covid-19 response fund in Russia
• Who cares If Standard Bank won’t stop financing coal mining?
• Iron Ships Slide Into Economic Storm
• Minnesota Court of Appeals Sends PolyMet Air Permit Back To MPCA

EQUIPMENT

• Layoffs intensify at mining contractors due to a reduction of business activities
• Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, pulling resources from the asteroid
• Miners to further leverage mobile tech for real-time data access, survey reveals
• Metal prices boosted by a South African move to shut its Mines

GLOBAL

• Coal dust danger Underestimated
• More than 280 sites to be tendered for mining
• South African mining companies gear up for unprecedented 21-day shutdown
• Merchant Mining in India and latest developments in Odisha Mining Auction 2020
• Freeport keeps Peru mine running, shuts New Mexico copper mine
• Covid-19 wipes $282 bn from the Top 50 mining firms
• Brazil’s Vale Warns Resumption of lost capacity could be slowed
• Gold Mining Capricorn Nearing It’s First Blast At Pilbara Gold Mine
• Metso & Outotec Outline Covid-19 Impact Ahead Of Expected Merger Completion
• BHP employees test positive for Coronavirus

STATISTICS

• March 2020 crude steel production
• World Champions of steel Challenge-14