by Gordon Barratt | May 11, 2020 | News
China’s largest hard coal producer Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) Co Ltd in Shanxi Province has finished building a 5G network in one of its mines, heralding the coming of 5G era of the country’s cold industry and paving way for intelligent mining based on...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Indian company uses highly productive and extremely reliable Wirtgen 220 SM 3.8 surface miner, which specializes in soft rock mining, in a coal mine in the Indian state of Odisha. India has extensive coal reserves and uses them as the country’s most important source...
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 Barrick Gold has withdrawn its 2020 guidance from the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea following the government’s decision not to renew the Canadian company’s 20-year special mining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...
