by Gordon Barratt | Jun 16, 2020 | News
China will likely ease the pressure on local governments to shut older, inefficient coal mines as it seeks to meet rising demand of the most-polluting fuel to spur its economic recovery. Government officials are in the midst of preparing the country’s all-important...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 16, 2020 | News
Global miner Rio Tinto has no plans to take full control of its Canadian Arctic diamond mine, which faces closure and will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up, court documents show. Rio, which owns 60% of the Diavik mine in Canada’s Northwest...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 15, 2020 | News
Professor of plant and microbial biology Arash Komeili and Bakar Fellows Program student Carly Grant. The future of iron ore mining could be in microscopic bacteria, according to a study by the University of California’s Bakar Fellows Program. Scientists discovered...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 15, 2020 | News
The Aurora mill, in Guyana. China’s Zijin Mining has been revealed as the international company that presented Canada’s Guyana Goldfields with a superior proposal, outbidding Silvercorp Metals with its C$323-million offer for the gold miner. Zijin and Guyana...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 15, 2020 | News
Historic wide-spaced drilling and results from drilling in 2019 will assist in the targeting of the planned drilling for 2020. Core from the 4.1-metre zone of mineralisation including the 0.5 metres bonanza grade zone above the tape measure Chase Mining Corporation...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 15, 2020 | News
The Cook Islands is one of several Pacific nations promoting ocean floor mining as the world’s greenest option. Seabed mining Photo: Supplied There are thought to be vast tracts of polymetallic nodules containing valuable minerals, such as cobalt, manganese and...
