The Energy Department has already issued emergency orders to halt the retirement of two fossil fuel-fired plants, and plans to use the same process to keep others operating, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal matters. Although such orders...
A boom in artisanal gold mining in Ghana has driven mercury contamination to dangerous levels in host communities, with soil readings in some areas reaching 134 times amounts deemed to be safe, a government-backed study has found. The report by the New...
Mali has approved seven agreements granting the state more revenue from international and local mining companies in the latest push by the military government to extract more income from the sector. The Council of Ministers approved the exploitation and exploration...
BHP group procurement officer Rashpal Bhatti gave a far-ranging and insightful state of play on BHP and the global mining industry in his keynote speech on the second day of AIMEX in Adelaide. Bhatti laid out the aspirations and scope of the Big Australian’s...
UK-based Weir Group will acquire mining management software developer Fast2Mine as part of a recently announced binding agreement. The acquisition complements Weir’s existing suite of mine planning and control software, grouped under Weir’s Micromine business. The...
