After more than a thousand of its workers went to fight Russia’s invasion, a coal mining enterprise in eastern Ukraine suffered a huge staff shortage. Its answer was to allow women to work underground for the first time in its history. Nataliia, 43-years-old,...
Ratings agency Fitch downgraded Chile’s State-owned copper giant Codelco’s credit rating by one notch to BBB+ from A-, it said in a statement on Wednesday, the agency’s first downgrade of the company in five years, though it maintained a...
BHP and clean energy provider TransAlta have debuted a new solar farm in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. It is said that the new solar and battery storage facility is one of the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems, and...
Metro Mining has produced four million tonnes (Mt) of bauxite at its Bauxite Hills mine, a record for the company. The Bauxite Hills mine is located 95km north of Weipa on Western Cape York, near the coast on the Skardon River in far north Queensland. It...
China exported small amounts of two minerals crucial to high-tech manufacturing in October, marking a resumption in sales after a two-month hiatus caused by Beijing’s restrictions. The controls on germanium, gallium and their chemical compounds, used to make...
