In South Africa’s coal heartland, grey smog hangs over parts of the Mpumalanga province like a thick blanket, while miners descend underground to chip away at the black rock. One of them is Mooi Masuku, an artisanal coal miner of 17 years, who says a new...
Port Hedland is set to host a $4 billion hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant after Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority approved the Port Hedland iron (PHI) project. The facility, backed by South Korean steel-maker POSCO, will process Pilbara iron ore...
BHP has again proved the strength of its Pilbara operations, posting a third-straight year of record production at Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) and extending its push as one of world’s lowest-cost major iron ore producers. WAIO set multiple records, producing 257...
Orion Minerals’ share purchase plan (SPP), which closed on August 12, has raised A$1.93-million, or about R22.2-million. Under the SPP, each eligible shareholder was entitled to apply for parcels of new fully paid ordinary shares from a minimum parcel of A$170, or...
Uganda has inaugurated its first large-scale gold mine, a $250-million Chinese-owned project in the country’s east that will also refine the bullion to 99.9% purity, according to a statement from the president’s office. The landlocked east African country,...
Liebherr-Australia is set to deliver a range of excavators across Glencore’s Queensland and New South Wales operations under a new major machine delivery plan. The agreement will see the delivery of 17 Liebherr machines across six Glencore mining operations in...
