by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
VIRUS POSITIVESCovid-19 has, however, helped to promote collaboration between governments and miners worldwide, such as information sharing and donating funds The global mining industry is facing a new reality amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with measures to curb the...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Source: Porgera Joint Venture. Barrick Gold has withdrawn its 2020 guidance from the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea following the government’s decision not to renew the Canadian company’s 20-year special mining lease. This led Barrick to place the Porgera mine...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Australian Potash’s Lake Wells Project. Source: Australian Potash The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has backed Australian Potash to start minor and preliminary works at its Lake Wells sulphate of potash project. The company is...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA For more than two decades, Zimbabwe has been trying to break ground on a giant coal-power complex by the world’s biggest man-made reservoir. China just agreed to get the $4.2bn project under way. The development near the southern shore of...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Installing carbon capture and sequestration technology at existing large coal-fired power plants around the world could leave many of them short of water at least for part of the year, a new scientific study has found. Around 43%, or 830 GW, of the nearly 1,100...
by Gordon Barratt | May 7, 2020 | News
Image: CPS. Conveyor Products & Solutions (CPS) is supplying the first all composite roller conveyor in the Pilbara region to BHP’s South Flank iron ore project. CPS designed, engineered and fabricated the conveyor system idlers especially for BHP, which will run...
