by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
Two unions at Chile’s Centinela copper mine rejected further contract talks with Antofagasta Minerals on Wednesday and decided to strike after government-mediated negotiations failed to produce a deal. The risk of a strike in Chile, the world’s largest...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
The administration is said to be “strengthening grid reliability and national security by reinvigorating the American coal industry” and “unleashing beautiful, clean coal after years of attack.” Declaring a “national energy emergency” back in January 2025, the Trump...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
BHP has agreed to sell its idled Kambalda Nickel Concentrator (KNC), along with a package of tenements and mineralisation rights, to Gold Fields, in a deal that hands the Western Australian plant to a gold miner already operating in the region. Under agreements...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 7, 2026 | News
In “Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR” journalist Joe Luc Barnes travels across the 15 states that once comprised the Soviet Union. In the excerpt below, Barnes stops off in Karaganda, the heart of Kazakh coal country and once the site of a...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 7, 2026 | News
The World Bank has urged Guinea to use the revenues from the exploitation of the largest iron-ore reserve on earth to diversify and build a stronger economy. “The question we must ask ourselves is not just how much ore Guinea will export, but how many jobs,...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 7, 2026 | News
Tivan’s proposed $50 million joint venture for the Molyhil tungsten project in the Northern Territory has moved closer to binding agreements, with Sumitomo Corporation expected to seek Australian foreign investment approval shortly. Tivan said it had made material...
