Mining the Americas in 2019 — a forecast

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18 January 2019. The outlook for Americas mining remains positive over the coming years, but miners will face challenges from tension over water usage from local communities if El Niño strikes and political uncertainty stemming from recent election outcomes and corruption scandals.

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Cornish secures further funding to build lithium mine in UK

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18 January 2019. Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, has secured a further £1 million (about $1.3 million) from its existing investors, which will allow the firm to expand its ongoing drilling work in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England.

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Indian Railways plans to tender 4 GW solar project

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18 January 2019. The procurement will be worth an estimated $2.25 billion, and will stipulate the use of 1.2 GW of Indian-made equipment. The power generated will replace 4 GW of coal-fired electricity consumption used by the railways.

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Mexico’s installed solar capacity tops 3 GW

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17 January 2019. A leap in new capacity last year was due to the grid connection of several large-scale projects selected in Mexico’s energy auctions. Asolmex reports that of the operational 39 solar parks in the country, 10 were awarded in the country’s first and second power auctions, for which the assigned solar capacities were 1.69 GW and 1.85 GW, respectively.

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Cepsa and Masdar ink agreement for 600 MW of renewables in Iberia

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17 January 2019. The energy companies have signed a partnership agreement to expand their portfolios on the Iberian peninsula. Spain and Portugal have ambitious decarbonization plans requiring large capacities of renewable energy resources in the years to come. Spain’s PV market could reach 6 GW this year.

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Can Mozambique Avoid The ‘Resource Curse’?

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17 January 2019. On Monday morning, Mozambican soldiers opened fire to disperse protesters calling for natural gas projects to be suspended until more pressing issues, particularly fundamentalist insurgents, are dealt with. Nonetheless, Mozambique seems determined to push ahead with LNG development, hopeful that the huge gas deposit discovered off its northern coast in 2010 could lift the country out of the ranks of the world’s poorest.

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Statkraft plans its first floating solar plant in Albania

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16 January 2019. Norway’s state-owned hydropower and wind company intends to deploy a 2 MW floating installation at its 72 MW hydropower plant in Albania’s Elbasan district.

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