Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that mining production decreased by 4% year-on-year in June, with the largest negative contributor being platinum group metals (PGMs), which recorded a decline of 8.4% year-on-year, contributing -2.4 percentage points....
Multinational engineering company Sandvik has received orders from Lucara Botswana, a subsidiary of TSX-listed Lucara Diamond Corp, to supply a 15-unit fleet of underground drills and loaders, parts, rock tools and related services for the Karowe mine, in Botswana....
A new global mineral chemistry database is set to help researchers, governments and industry better understand how critical minerals occur, supporting exploration, resource assessment and future supply. The Critical Minerals in Ores – Mineral Chemistry database, known...
A single Liebherr excavator has shifted 17 million bank cubic metres at a coal mine in the New South Wales Hunter Valley over 12 months, the most any R 9600 has moved in a year, according to Thiess. The 600-tonne machine ran for 6,840 operating hours at MACH Energy’s...
Chilean state miner Codelco expects to begin production at an expansion project within its flagship El Teniente copper mine in 2029, the mine’s general director Gustavo Reyes said on Wednesday. Codelco said on August 4 that it had paused the project, which aims...
Critical minerals mining in the US is poised to benefit from a new $250-billion finance initiative announced by Bank of America on August 12. Bank of America announced an 18-month critical infrastructure finance initiative in honor of America’s...
