The phrase "a mining consortium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of companies or organizations that come together to engage in mining activities or projects.
Example: "The government has approved the proposal submitted by a mining consortium to explore new mineral resources in the region."
Alternatives: "a mining alliance" or "a mining partnership".
At Reko Diq, 70 miles from the Afghan border, a Canadian-Chilean mining consortium has struck gold, big-time.
No doubt, the film director has already sensed the disturbing parallels between the virtual, 3D world of Pandora and the Amazon jungle: just like the fictional Na'vi people, who fight against an earth-based, mining consortium, the Kayapo Indians are fighting to preserve about 500 square miles of their lands threatened by flooding.
In 1978, a dredge aboard the Hughes Glomar Explorer, operated by the American mining consortium Ocean Minerals Company OMCOO), made a mining track at a depth of 5000 meters in the nodule fields of the CCFZ.
In recent years the cost of mining has risen significantly, although both big Bitcoin mining consortiums and smaller miners are still able to make money despite some claiming Bitcoin mining globally is now using more electricity than the whole of Ireland.
So far, he says, when there have been minor forks of the software, "that's generally been resolved by people having to get in touch with some of the mining consortiums, some of the larger ones, and basically saying, please put this back the way we want it". However, no process has been established for preventing or dealing with such issues in the future.
In 2002 its liquidator sold Vinto for $6m to a consortium headed by Comsur, a mining company owned by Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivia's president from 1993-97.
A mining concession was granted to Consafrique, a European consortium, to mine the Guinean section of the range after an agreement had been reached with Liberia to use the Lamco railway.
The would-be buyer was a consortium consisting of Anglo American, a mining firm, the Oppenheimer family of South Africa and Debswana, De Beers' joint venture with the government of Botswana.
Since 2010, I have fought alongside the Natural Resources Defense Council to stop the Pebble Mine -- a colossal open-pit copper-and-gold mine that a consortium of global mining giants want to gouge out of the spectacular untamed wilderness above Alaska's Bristol Bay.
On 14 July, in Bulawayo, agents representing a consortium headed by the South African-based entrepreneur Thomas Leask received a mining concession from Lobengula, covering all of his country, and pledging half of the proceeds to the king.
