by Gordon Barratt | Nov 7, 2024 | News
The Biden administration took a key step toward holding a required sale of oil and gas leases in an Alaska wildlife refuge with the publication of a final environmental review, the Interior Department said on Wednesday. The analysis outlined a preferred scenario under...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 7, 2024 | News
Rio Tinto will partner with China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to demonstrate battery swap electric haul truck technology. The technology will be trialled at at Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia, which is one of the largest copper and gold...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 6, 2024 | News
An extended delay in enacting reforms in Chile aimed at expediting mining permits represents a “serious” problem for the industry in the world’s top copper-producing country, the local head of US miner Freeport-McMoRan said on Tuesday. Chile, also...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 6, 2024 | News
Copper fell along with most metals, weighed down by a rise in the dollar as results of the US election started to come in. Votes were still being counted and polls remained open in many key states in the race...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 6, 2024 | News
The world’s No. 1 cobalt miner is sounding the alarm over the shrinking role of the metal in electric vehicle batteries. Chinese company CMOC Group, which has been churning out cobalt much faster than rivals like Glencore Plc, said the importance of the raw material...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 6, 2024 | News
Australian Vanadium Limited, or AVL, has announced project Lumina, led by its wholly owned subsidiary VSUN Energy. The project aims to develop a modular, turnkey and scalable utility-scale battery energy storage system using vanadium flow batteries, also known as VFB...
