Major miner Rio Tinto will invest $40.4 million in Sovereign Metals to advance the Kasiya rutile-graphite project in Malawi. The investment will see Rio provide assistance and advice on both the technical and marketing aspects of the Kasiya project. Kasiya is the...
Epiroc’s autonomous drills have reached a significant milestone at Thiess’ Lake Vermont site in Queensland, drilling one million lineal metres without an operator on board. Thiess was the first mining services provider to deploy an Epiroc Pit...
IGO has reported a significant impairment against its newly-acquired Western Areas assets, dropping the value of two nickel mines by almost $1 billion. The metals miner purchased the Cosmos project in WA, which includes the Odysseus nickel mine, from Western...
Poland’s government has outlined details of the billions of zloty it is proposing to pay state energy firms to buy their coal assets. The move is part of a process to create a new separate entity to gradually wind down the use of coal and allow other energy firms to...
One of Canada’s most tangible climate targets is to shut down coal-fired power plants by 2030. Getting off coal, the federal government acknowledges, “is one of the single most important climate steps the world can take.” However, how meaningful is that step if a...
