
Nickel Mining Company (NMC) is the joint venture between POSCO and SMSP, based in New Caledonia, which is in charge of supplying the Gwangyang plant in nickel ore. It is 51% owned by SMSP and employed 694 members of staff on
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Koniambo is located on the 20km-long and 5km-wide Koniambo massif in the North Province of New Caledonia, which is situated 930m above sea level and 15km away from the shore. Economically potential laterite is
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01.01.2007The most remarkable feature of New Caledonia mining landscape is nickel laterite. These ores cover most of the ultramafic terranes and have been exploited for decades. New projects are
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01.03.2004A fierce debate over the mining of nickel has recently engulfed one of Europe's last remaining colonies, France's tiny Melanesian archipelago of New
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New Caledonia is a widely recognised marine and terrestrial biodiversity hot spot. However, this unique environment is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Major threats are
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The 2020 protests in New Caledonia began on 28 October 2020 over a plan to sell a Vale -owned nickel and cobalt mine to a consortium led by Trafigura. The nickel mine and plant is known as the Goro mine. Independence leaders and pro-independence protesters wanted for the nickel plant to be owned by citizens of New Caledonia rather than foreign
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02.11.2022Carat selling price jumps 28% to USD2,028 per carat from USD1,589. For 2022, Gem expects to recover 104,000 carats of diamonds, down from the previously anticipated 112,000 to 116,000 carats. For
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Nickel mining in New Caledonia is a major sector of the New Caledonian economy. The island contains about 7.1 million tonnes of nickel reserves, about 10% of the world's total. With an annual production of 200,000
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The most commonly listed primary commodities in New Caledonia mines are Nickel, Cobalt, and Chromium . At the time these mines were
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Manganese ores are found associated with basaltic outcrops on the west coast of New Caledonia. Deposits located near Bourail, Poya, and Ouaco were quarried between 1918 and 1922 and again between 1949 and 1953, producing a total of about 60,000 tonnes of ore with an average content of 49 per cent manganese.
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10.07.2019The Diavik mine in Canada located in the remote Northwest Territories produces diamonds for high-end jewellery in markets worldwide. The British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto announced plans for a $350 million
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28.11.2016It has been estimated that between 220 to 280 million cubic meters of waste containing heavy metals have been produced as a result of mining activities in New Caledonia. [102] World war II
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22.11.2018Approximately 130,000,000 carats (26,000 kg) of diamonds are mined yearly, with a total value of nearly US$9 billion, and about 100,000 kg are synthesized annually. Close to 49% of diamonds are coming from Central and Southern Africa. Also sources of the mineral have been discovered in Canada, India, Russia, Brazil, and Australia.
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Comprised an open-cut nickel mine and a pyrometallurgical plant, Koniambo Nickel Project is located in the North Province of New Caledonia and was officially inaugurated in November 2014. It is one of the world's biggest and highest-grade undeveloped nickel laterite deposits.
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02.07.2013Owned by GAR Minerals, the mine is located near the diamond-bearing Abaet River and the town of Trs Marias. GAR Minerals has six properties along the Abaet River and six others near the town of Coromandel
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02.11.2022Recovers 25,018 carats of diamonds, up 6.8% from 23,435 a year ago. Sells 27,913 carats, up 13% from 24,790. Carat selling price jumps 28% to USD2,028 per carat from USD1,589. For 2022, Gem
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10.12.2020The Goro plant owned by Vale is the world's fourth-largest nickel ore producer and a key economic driver for New Caledonia, employing 3000 people. But it has had a difficult history, benighted
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Today, New Caledonia's economy is driven by three key sectors: the mining industry - nickel (around 20% of GDP), magnesium, iron, cobalt, chromium and manganese, fiscal transfers from France (around 15% of GDP), and tourism.
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07.05.2010A fierce debate over the mining of nickel has recently engulfed one of Europe's last remaining colonies, France's tiny Melanesian archipelago of New Caledonia. Although nearly 20,000 kilometers from Paris, New Caledonia remains a French overseas territory—neither a French dpartement nor entirely autonomous.
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Vale New Caledonia (VNC) Vale New Caledonia was established in 2005, it is an ore mining company (limonite and saprolite) and production of nickel and cobalt. Located in the
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18.11.2022Source: Wikicommons. SLN, the New Caledonian nickel producer controlled by French mining group Eramet, is seeking help from a court-appointed expert to lead talks with stakeholders as it faces a
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1 He also noted that new investments by Caledonia and others are not only expanding exports and employment but increasing demand for power. In that regard, the President commended the company for
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14.08.2006New Caledonias primary smelter is now located in the capital city, Noumea. This smelter has been operated by the French company Societe Le Nickel (SLN) for more than 80 years. Over the next several years SLN plans to increase its current rate of production by half, putting urban New Caledonians at risk as well.
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28.11.2016New Caledonia accounted in 2011 for about 2% of the worldwide production of Co and 8% of Ni (Wacaster 2012 ). Chromium was also mined from 1880 to 1962, producing during this period even more metal than Ni. After a decade of decline, the Cr production experienced a revival in 1976, with the reopening of Cr mines which targeted chromite.
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01.04.2015New Caledonia is a widely recognised marine and terrestrial biodiversity hot spot. However, this unique environment is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Major threats are related to land cover change and include fire, urban sprawling and mining. Resulting habitat loss and fragmentation end up in serious erosion of the local biodiversity.
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Please Note: Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc DOES NOT recruit staff publicly. Please ignore any emails regarding employment opportunities. WARNING: There are reports of persons in Zimbabwe illicitly posing as employees of the group acting in a procurement capacity, in particular fraudsters pretending to act on behalf of Blanket Mine and contacting mining suppliers to
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07.01.2021Part of the Anglo-Australian mineral mining multinational Rio Tinto Group and owner of three diamond mines, Rio Tinto Diamonds boasts over $4bn in revenues and has operations on five continents. In 2019, the
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30.08.1999The area covers the northern portion of the Bingara Diamond field, the second largest diamond producer in New South Wales. According to its website, Caledonian
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New Caledonia is a widely recognised marine and terrestrial biodiversity hot spot. However, this unique environment is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Major threats are related to land cover change and include fire, urban sprawling and mining. Resulting habitat loss and fragmentation end up in serious erosion of the local biodiversity.
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02.11.2022Recovers 25,018 carats of diamonds, up 6.8% from 23,435 a year ago. Sells 27,913 carats, up 13% from 24,790. Carat selling price jumps 28% to USD2,028 per carat from USD1,589. For 2022, Gem expects to recover 104,000 carats of diamonds, down from the previously anticipated 112,000 to 116,000 carats.
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05.07.2022New Caledonia is a widely recognised marine and terrestrial biodiversity hot spot. However, this unique environment is under increasing anthropogenic pressure. Major threats are related to land
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11.12.2020New Caledonia is in the middle of a long-promised self-determination process. It has held two of a possible three independence referendums. The first, in November 2018, delivered a 57% to 43% vote to
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18.07.2020Innovation in New Caledonia's mining sector Currently in the 4th industrial revolution and following the coronavirus epidemic, the world mining sector is changing. New Caledonia has therefore decided to consolidate its innovation capacity and to develop new automation technologies that will integrate drones and the geolocation of mobile equipment.
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02.11.2022Carat selling price jumps 28% to $2,028 per carat from $1,589. For 2022, Gem expects to recover 104,000 carats of diamonds, down from the previously anticipated 112,000 to 116,000 carats. For sales, it lowers its guidance to about 105,000 carats from a previous range of 110,000 to 114,000 carats.
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02.11.2022Carat selling price jumps 28% to USD2,028 per carat from USD1,589. For 2022, Gem expects to recover 104,000 carats of diamonds, down from the previously
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12.07.2013Dominique Nacci is the public relations spokesman for SMSP mining company, which is owned by New Caledonia's Kanak-dominated Northern Province. Having purchased old mines from SLN and started a major nickel development in the north, SMSP is trying to wrest some of the wealth created by nickel in New Caledonia back to its indigenous people.
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