by Gordon Barratt | Sep 22, 2026 | News
The share of coal-fired power plants in India running on critically low levels of coal inventory has soared in recent weeks to nearly 40% of all operational coal plants, Reuters reported on Monday, citing government data. As many as 74 coal-fired power plants had...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 22, 2026 | News
BHP and China Baowu Steel have renewed their steel decarbonisation partnership for another five years, with trials of Pilbara iron ore in modified blast furnaces and emerging steelmaking technologies at the centre of the agreement. The new memorandum of understanding...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
Metallurgical coal has spent the past few years as the industrial commodity nobody wanted to admit owning. It sits under the same coal label as the thermal coal that funds have been told to divest from, even though it does an entirely different job. Capital has stayed...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
President Prabowo Subianto plans to produce gasoline from coal in a bid to reduce Indonesia’s reliance on imported fuel. He noted that domestic engineering professors have already succeeded in processing fuel from crude palm oil (CPO). This breakthrough is...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
Geoscience Australia has identified new exploration opportunities for critical minerals, copper and gold beneath a largely under-explored region spanning South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. The findings come from the Delamerian project, the first deep-dive...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 21, 2026 | News
Queensland tin production is set to gain a direct link to the US market, with Mount Garnet’s output to be supplied to a US refiner backed by the Department of Defence. Huntore Australia’s Mount Garnet polymetallic operation, about 100km south-west of Cairns, has...
