DERA informed - Glencore plans to acquire Xstrata

The DERA announces: "could The proposed acquisition of the mining company Xstrata by commodities trader Glencore International in Switzerland, the fifth-largest mining company for mineral raw materials originate." Below, the German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA) rated in the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), the impact of the merger on the global commodity markets.

Project wants to bring the recovery of valuable materials from mining dumps ahead

The extraction of mineral materials from mining dumps is the focus of another project from the funding program "r ³ - Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficiency - Strategic Metals and Minerals" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In Prof. Jens Gutzmer from the Department of Economic Geology and Petrology led project "SMSB - obtaining strategic metals and other minerals from Saxon mining dumps" are examined landfills on Saxon territory on its contents at strategic metals. The Technical University of Freiberg receives 910,000 euros of funding for the project by the federal government.