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.