News in Numbers
$30bn
The figure Brazil's Vale says it is committing over ten years to work in Brazil, Canada and Indonesia.
€500m
A new EU-backed fund aiming to boost supply security for critical minerals.
170 million tonnes
The amount of mining waste that Norwegian authorities have said can be dumped into the country’s fjords.
$1bn
How much De Beers and the Botswana Government are spending to take the Jwaneng project – the world’s ‘greatest diamond mine’ – deeper.
$20bn
Rio Tinto's proposed $20bn mining project in Guinea in West Africa, is closer to fruition after a 27 year wait.