by Gordon Barratt | Feb 20, 2020 | News
Warrior Met Coal announced that it is commencing development of its Blue Creek reserves into a new, world-class longwall mine located in Alabama near its existing mines. Once completed, this transformational growth investment will reinforce Warrior’s position as the...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 20, 2020 | News
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, helmed by Bill Gates, and MIT’s The Engine fund are leading an investment round of $20 million for Lilac Solutions, a U.S. startup aimed at making the extraction of lithium less water-intensive and more sustainable. As the world looks to...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 20, 2020 | News
Newmont has approved a $150 million investment in a Caterpillar autonomous haulage system (AHS) at the Boddington gold mine in Western Australia. Boddington will become the world’s first open pit gold mine with an autonomous haul truck fleet when the MineStar Command...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Orica has signed an agreement with interests associated with Grupo Breca (Breca) to acquire all of its shares in Breca Soluciones de Voladura S.A.C., and its associates’ shares in Exsa S.A. (together representing 83.5% of the total shares outstanding in EXSA S.A.),...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
Image: Silver Lake Resources Silver Lake Resources has appointed Macmahon’s newly acquired subsidiary GBF Group to deliver further work at the Mount Monger gold operations near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. GBF has been operating at Mount Monger since 2014 and...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 19, 2020 | News
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has said Australians who want to reduce coal-fired power by 80 per cent by 2050 are ‘dreaming’. Support for coal-fired power among Coalition voters has dropped from 72 to 57 per cent, according to a poll by the Australian...
