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US midterms turn focus to mining reform

It was fitting that the key mining state of Nevada delivered US President Joe Biden an unexpected majority in the US Senate in mid-term elections this weekend. With Republicans failing to build a sizeable majority in the lower House of Representatives, Biden appears set to seek a second term in 2024, and implications for the country’s mining sector could be profound.

 Biden looking to mining reform

Biden looking to mining reform

The narrow victory of Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada in keeping her seat in the gold-producing heartland of the US and home to leading producers Barrick Gold and Newmont will see Cortez...

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