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Fears the Australian gold sector's boom conditions will be disrupted by drought have been eased, with miners saying there is no longer a risk of production being curtailed in the coming year thanks to the breaking of the drought. Less than four months after it warned its flagship Cadia mine may have to reduce production before Christmas because of water shortages, Newcrest Mining said on Wednesday the crisis had been abated.

Australia’s Danakali (ASX, LON:DNK) said on Thursday it was is in the final stages of completing the second phase of development of its world-class Colluli potash project in Eritrea, Africa. The front-end engineering design (FEED), expected to be finished in June, will take the company a step closer to the construction phase and then onto production in 2022, Danakali said.

Total construction starts dropped 25 percent from March to April to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of $572.2 billion, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. The decline is the result of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic recession that hit the construction sector.

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Do you have what it takes to beat the heat? Newcrest, one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, with operations in Asia Pacific and Canada, recently started a Beat the Heat competition with the goal of improving blasting safety and reliability at the Lihir Mine, where ground temperatures can reach up to 190˚C. Check out their website to learn more about the mine site’s challenges and to enter the Beat the Heat competition.

A Minas Gerais state court in Brazil has revoked a decree from Brumadinho municipality that suspended Vale’s operating license after health agents said that the company’s onsite activities have “not respected the rules of social isolation.” Brumadinho’s mayor Avimar de Melo Barcelos had also ordered the suspension of activities of Vale’s contractors and halted works to repair the Córrego do Feijão mine’s tailings dam, that collapsed last year, killing 270 people.