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The New York couple charged with trying to launder $4.5 billion in bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of Bitfinex appear set to plead guilty in the case. An information is a type of charging document that federal prosecutors typically use when defendants have agreed to plead guilty. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday ordered prosecutors and defense lawyers to provide plea paperwork to her by Thursday, the docket shows. The couple was not charged in the hack of the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange. The bitcoin stolen in the hack was worth just $70 million at the time of the theft, but soared in value in the following years.

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☆ A Onetime Paper Maker Is Now the King of Lithium
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Julie Steinberg | Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Newmont Agrees to Acquire Australia’s Newcrest for $17.5 Billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | David Winning | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Katie Klann for The Wall Street JournalSYDNEY— Newmont said it has agreed to acquire Australia’s Newcrest Mining for $17.5 billion, in what would be the largest-ever M&A deal in the gold-mining industry. Newmont is offering 0.400 of its own shares for each Newcrest share, and has allowed Newcrest to pay a special dividend of up to $1.10 a share around the time any deal completes. Those terms are in line with a revised offer pitched by Newmont roughly a month ago.

☆ The World’s Biggest Gold Miner Bets Big on Copper
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | David Winning | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Colorado-based Newmont is the world’s top gold producer. Photo: Katie Klann for The Wall Street JournalSYDNEY— Newmont said it has agreed to acquire Australia’s Newcrest Mining for $17.5 billion, concluding weeks of talks over a sweetened offer by the U.S. company that wants to complete the largest-ever M&A deal in the gold-mining industry. Newmont’s pursuit of Newcrest illustrates how gold producers are seeking to make deals as the industry is struggling to make large discoveries of the precious metal. It also extends a battle for control among miners for commodities essential for making electric vehicles and renewable-energy infrastructure, as Newcrest’s gold mines also produce significant amounts of copper.

☆ The Los Angeles Opera, Post-Plácido Domingo
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It survived the downturn without running a deficit, relying on salary reductions, a handful of layoffs, a $5 million five-year loan against the endowment, and federal aid. Domingo’s downfall stunned Los Angeles and its opera company, which had been so closely identified with the star tenor, who had been singing there since the 1960s and was instrumental in the creation of the company. It is difficult to say precisely whether attendance was affected by the departure of Domingo, given that the coronavirus shutdown followed so soon afterward. For many years his performances had drawn the biggest crowds, and his image was as integral to the company’s marketing as Gustavo Dudamel’s is for its neighbor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic. “It is unmistakably a loss because he’s such a titanic figure in the world,” Koelsch said.

☆ Livent, Allkem Agree to Create $10.6 Billion Lithium Producer
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S.-based Livent has expertise in the processing of lithium. Photo: ERNEST SCHEYDER/via REUTERSADELAIDE, Australia—Lithium producers Livent and Allkem said they had agreed to a merger that will create a global mining company worth $10.6 billion, illustrating how a surge in demand for the battery mineral used in electric vehicles is sparking a rush to do deals. The all-stock transaction will result in shareholders of U.S.-based Livent owning around 44% of the combined company, with shareholders of Australia-listed Allkem holding the remaining stock, the companies said in a joint statement Wednesday. The enlarged company will have its headquarters in North America, and a primary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

☆ Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Nobody has the lock on being a composer,” she said. “We’ve got to stop with separation and who gets to be called a composer. RHIANNON GIDDENS It feels amazing, because Michael and I just put into this what we know. I’ve just come from seeing a couple of the shows in Boston, where it was playing to sold-out houses [at Boston Lyric Opera]. In each city, you’ve seen people who have never come to the opera before, feeling seen and feeling moved and being welcomed into an artistic space where they haven’t felt welcomed before.

Until now, medical assistance in dying — or MAID, as it’s often called — has been available in North America primarily to patients with terminal physical illnesses. The introduction of psychiatric MAID will present difficult, and different, ethical questions, especially for the doctors responsible for helping patients through this choice. Dr. Sisco van Veen is a psychiatrist working in the Netherlands, where psychiatric MAID has been legal since 2002. As an ethicist and a clinician at Amsterdam Medical University, Dr. van Veen has thought deeply about the thorny ethics of psychiatric MAID. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.

Refined copper bundles at a BHP mine in South Australia. Photo: sonali paul/ReutersMining companies are back at the deals table as they battle for control of commodities essential for making electric cars and renewable-energy infrastructure. The world’s largest miner is set to seal its biggest deal in more than a decade. An American gold giant is seeking to acquire an Australian rival that is rich in copper. And a Swiss commodities company has made two proposals to combine with a century-old Canadian competitor.

☆ 35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Francesca Paris | Larry Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +24 min

People are using ChatGPT and other A.I. Here’s how 35 real people are using A.I for work, life, play and procrastination. People are using A.I to …Plan gardens. Chris Norn Researcher at the University of Washington Two years ago researchers cracked the code on using A.I. When you run a Dungeons & Dragons game, Mr. Green says, you have to be creative, but that almost always means pulling from existing fantasy literature.

☆ Newmont Raises Bid for Australia’s Newcrest to $19.5 Billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Insurer Chubb Demands Energy Producers Cut Methane Emissions for Coverage
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Leslie Scism | Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Oil-and-gas companies will provide plans to manage emissions or lose underwriting from Chubb. Global insurer Chubb Ltd. is tightening its requirements on insurance policies for oil-and- gas producers, demanding that they reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Chubb , which is a top-10 insurer in the worldwide oil-and-gas market by premium volume, will also stop underwriting projects in areas designated as protected by state, provincial or national governments, effective immediately.

☆ Global Miners Gear Up for Energy Transition With Deals and Investments
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia is being expanded underground as the company predicts rising demand. ADELAIDE, Australia—Global miners are spending billions of dollars on deals and raising budgets for new projects in a bet on the energy transition, changing course from a decadelong focus on shareholder payouts. BHP Group Ltd., the world’s biggest miner by market value, is close to completing its biggest acquisition since 2011 with copper-and-gold miner OZ Minerals Ltd. recommending its shareholders vote in favor of the more-than $6 billion bid. Two months ago, Rio Tinto PLC bought out minority shareholders in Canada-listed Turquoise Hill Resources in a $3.1 billion deal to get more exposure to a giant copper deposit in Mongolia.

☆ Newmont Proposes $17 Billion Takeover of Australia’s Newcrest Mining
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Newmont, based in Colorado, is one of the world’s largest producers of gold. ADELAIDE, Australia— Newmont Corp. has made a roughly $17 billion offer to acquire Australia’s Newcrest Mining Ltd., aiming to seal one of the biggest deals for a global gold miner as the industry struggles to make large new discoveries of the precious metal. Newmont, based in Colorado and one of the world’s largest producers of gold, on Sunday submitted a conditional and nonbinding indicative proposal to acquire Newcrest, Australia’s largest listed gold producer. Newmont said it would offer 0.380 Newmont shares for each Newcrest share held, according to Newcrest.

At Sue Schmidt’s gas station and roadhouse off a remote highway in the Australian Outback, employees usually watch out for snakes when they are walking outside. But this week, they were looking for something else: A tiny capsule of radioactive material that sparked a search along a roughly 900-mile stretch of the road. The capsule, used in mine equipment, went missing while in transit from a Rio Tinto PLC mine to Perth, Western Australia’s state capital. As the search dragged on over the past week, Ms. Schmidt and her employees grew wary of cleaning up the bottle caps and coins that they usually find outside the roadhouse, fearing that any shiny object could be the capsule that would hit them with a dangerous dose of radiation.

Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services crews had been searching for the tiny capsule. A tiny capsule containing radioactive material that sparked a search over hundreds of miles of highway in the Australian Outback has been found, authorities said Wednesday. The success “is testament to amazing inter-agency teamwork in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds,” Western Australia state’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services said on Twitter.

☆ Australia’s Nuclear Safety Agency Joins the Hunt for Missing Radioactive Capsule
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ADELAIDE, Australia—Authorities intensified their search for a missing capsule containing radioactive material in Australia’s far west, deploying car-mounted detection equipment for the first time as they began to retrace a truck’s nearly 900-mile journey across the Outback. The capsule, which is less than a third of an inch long and contains Cesium-137, is believed to have fallen from a truck somewhere between Rio Tinto PLC’s Gudai-Darri mine and Perth, the capital of Western Australia. An initial search using hand-held radiation monitors failed to find the capsule, which was discovered to be missing on Jan. 25, prompting a public health alert.

☆ Missing Radioactive Capsule Prompts Search and Concern in Australia
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A member of an incident management team in Cockburn, Australia, coordinated the search for a radioactive capsule that was lost in transit by a contractor hired by Rio Tinto. ADELAIDE, Australia—In the Australian Outback, authorities are engaged in an unusual search-and-recovery effort. Gone missing is an 8-millimeter-long capsule of radioactive material that can burn or sicken anyone who touches it. Their problem is that it could be anywhere along a 900-mile stretch of highway connecting a Rio Tinto PLC mine to Perth, Western Australia’s state capital, a route featuring small towns and communities in an arid landscape of wiry shrubs and red desert sands. The capsule, which contains a small quantity of radioactive Caesium-137, worked its way loose from a piece of equipment that Rio Tinto had sent to Perth by truck for repair.

☆ I've worked remotely from 15 different countries. Here's what I've learned and what I'd never do again.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In addition to Italy, over the last five years, Cook has worked in Kenya, Thailand, and 12 other countries. At the time, startups were the only type of company I found that were open to fully remote work. When I started doing this in 2018, remote working like this wasn't as common as it is now. Now, since more people have access to this life because of remote work, a number of companies have cropped up for this exact kind of thing. Cook serving another participant in the Italy program during dinner.

☆ Bain Capital Considers Virgin Australia IPO as Travel Demand Rebounds
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ADELAIDE, Australia—Bain Capital is considering an initial public offering of Australia’s second-largest airline in what would be a new test of investor appetite for carriers in a turbulent postpandemic recovery. On Monday, Bain Capital said as a first step, it will soon ask advisers about the best timing, structure and metrics for relisting Virgin Australia on the Australian Securities Exchange .

The coal ban reshaped energy markets and showed how Beijing’s efforts to use its economy as a foreign-policy tool can have limits. China effectively ended a ban on Australian coal that has been a centerpiece of a diplomatic dispute lasting more than two years, in the latest indication that Beijing is taking a less confrontational approach in its foreign policy as the economy struggles. Customs officials in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday received notice from the local government that they can clear Australian coal shipments, two people familiar with the situation said. The move comes about a week after the country’s national planning agency permitted a group of large state-owned companies to buy Australian coal again. The Guangdong government didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ Fiji Deploys Military, Risking Tensions in Election Aftermath
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Rhiannon Hoyle | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ADELAIDE, Australia—Fiji mobilized its military after the party of longtime leader Frank Bainimarama failed to win a majority in an election this month, a move that risks inflaming tensions in a Pacific nation that the U.S. has courted to counter China’s inroads in the region. Mr. Bainimarama’s Fiji First party has yet to concede after the main opposition parties in Fiji, where there has been four military coups in the past 35 years, this week formed a coalition to oust the incumbent government.

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