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...
by Gordon Barratt | May 8, 2020 | News
Installing carbon capture and sequestration technology at existing large coal-fired power plants around the world could leave many of them short of water at least for part of the year, a new scientific study has found. Around 43%, or 830 GW, of the nearly 1,100...
by Gordon Barratt | May 7, 2020 | News
Image: CPS. Conveyor Products & Solutions (CPS) is supplying the first all composite roller conveyor in the Pilbara region to BHP’s South Flank iron ore project. CPS designed, engineered and fabricated the conveyor system idlers especially for BHP, which will run...
by Gordon Barratt | May 7, 2020 | News
National Plant and Equipment has delivered Australia’s first rental Cat 994K wheel loader to Rio Tinto’s Marandoo mine in Western Australia. For over 25 years, the 994K has remained the top customer choice in its size class and is the largest wheel loader manufactured...
by Gordon Barratt | May 7, 2020 | News
China’s coal imports in April surged 35% from a year earlier, as traders scrambled to snap up low-cost coal from the seaborne market amid plunging demand for the fuel worldwide because of the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s largest coal buyer imported about 34.22...
by Gordon Barratt | May 7, 2020 | News
Russian billionaire Dmitry Bosov has been found dead at his home in a Moscow suburb, in what officials say was a suicide. The Investigative Committee announced on May 7 that Bosov, 52, had died the previous evening of a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol was...
