A US judge has said recently he was ready to approve Rio Tinto’s agreement to pay $138.75-million to settle a lawsuit that accused the Anglo-Australian mining giant of defrauding investors by concealing problems with its $7-billion underground expansion of the...
More than 13 million acres of public lands were opened up for coal leasing by the Trump administration at the end of September. The announcement, titled “Interior Unleashes American Coal Power in Bold Move to Advance Trump Administration Priorities,”...
Australian iron-ore producer Fenix Resources has reported record shipments and maintained its full-year 2026 guidance as its integrated pit-to-port operations continued to perform strongly during the September quarter. The company shipped 885 000 wet metric tonnes...
Canada’s Taseko Mines has lowered its full-year copper production guidance to between 100-million and 105-million pounds, from a previous forecast of 120-million to 130-million pounds, despite reporting a sharp improvement in third-quarter output at its Gibraltar mine...
South Africa’s era of large-scale dense media coal plants may be drawing to a close, according to DRA minerals processing consultant Mark Cresswell. Speaking at the twenty-first International Coal Preparation Conference in Sun City, on October 14, he...
