Monash University has developed a new smaller, lighter lithium-sulphur battery design that reduces the amount of lithium required. As well as reducing lithium consumption, the new design does not require nickel or cobalt, has more energy per unit volume, lasts longer...
Global miner BHP reached a preliminary deal with the supervisors’ union at its Escondida mine in Chile, avoiding a strike at the world’s largest copper deposit, the company announced. In late September, the union’s members rejected a proposal from...
A 2014 toxic spill in a Mexican river blamed on Grupo Mexico was not an accident but a result of negligence, the country’s Environment Minister said while urging the mining conglomerate to create a new plan to remediate the damage. Grupo Mexico failed to...
Anglo American and Mitsubishi Materials have agreed to collaborate on a responsible copper value chain in Australia. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding on the creation of a copper product offering that responds to the growing demand for metals...
North West Phosphate will begin mining operations on 65,000 square kilometres of untapped phosphate tenements in north-west Queensland, the ABC reported. The $350 million project will focus on one of the largest deposits, Paradise South, with the company...
