by Gordon Barratt | May 22, 2020 | News
The Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) has laid off eight salaried employees and furloughed 93 hourly employees at its Antelope Mine. The move comes about a month after the company laid off 130 employees between its Spring Creek, in southern Montana, and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 21, 2020 | News
CSIRO research scientist Dr Nathan Reid taking field measurements on site. Image: CSIRO Mining and exploration companies may soon pinpoint reserves of valuable minerals using a new water-tasting approach developed by the CSIRO. The new method incorporates research...
by Gordon Barratt | May 21, 2020 | News
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is launching an entirely new product for their bench drilling Top Hammer customers: the Guide Adapter. It enables customers to reduce hole deviation in challenging conditions by up to 50% and achieve considerable cost savings....
by Gordon Barratt | May 21, 2020 | News
Polish energy companies Enea and Energa late on May 19 announced they were ending their involvement with construction of the Ostroleka C coal-fired power plant, after new co-owner PKN Orlen said it would not be involved in the project if it utilizes coal. PKN Orlen, a...
by Gordon Barratt | May 21, 2020 | News
Some power plants in China have been told to stop importing Australian coal, according to traders and analysts in what appears to be the latest threat to Australia’s export trade with China.Unconfirmed reports on Thursday suggested China was reviving last year’s...
by Gordon Barratt | May 21, 2020 | News
The environmentally friendly ligand-assisted chromatography method. (Illustration courtesy Linda Wang.)Purdue University in the US says that its extraction and purifying processes using ligand-assisted chromatography can remove and purify rare earth metals from coal...
