Australian billionaire threatens to sink lithium deal with Chilean SQM

Hancock Prospectingowned by Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, threatened on Friday to torpedo a deal by the world’s second-largest lithium chemicals maker, Chile’s SQM.by an Australian lithium miner. Hancock Prospecting, an iron ore miner, acquired an 18.3% stake in Azure Mineralswhich is developing the Andover project in Western Australia, according to a filing on Friday … Read more

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Bougainville: what is behind the group of islands that is about to become a new country

Bougainville: what is behind the group of islands that is about to become a new country

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Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was an 18th century French sailor. After participating without much success in the Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763), he began a fruitful career as an explorer. His first destination was the Malvinas Islands, which he conquered on behalf of the French crown in 1764.. He founded a colony but it did … Read more

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Chinese mining company vaccinated employees in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Chinese mining company vaccinated employees in Papua New Guinea

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese mining company in Papua New Guinea claims to have immunized employees against COVID-19 in an apparent vaccination test, a newspaper reported Friday. The South Pacific island nation’s Health Minister Jelta Wong said his department is investigating Ramu NiCo (MCC) Ltd’s claims, according to The Australian. National Pandemic Response Director … Read more

Australia demanded the shipment of the vaccines it bought from AstraZeneca, but to donate them to another country

Papua New Guinea

Australia demanded the shipment of the vaccines it bought from AstraZeneca, but to donate them to another country

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This Wednesday, Australia demanded that AstraZeneca and the European Union urgently access one million doses of the vaccine it had purchased to supply to Papua New Guinea, which is registering a new outbreak of Covid-19. Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared that he wants to use the doses Australia has ordered and paid for to help … Read more