by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2026 | News
Liberia expects iron-ore output to triple to around 30-million metric tons this year, driven by ArcelorMittal Liberia’s (AML) planned ramp‑up and fresh volumes from new and revived projects, the country’s mines minister has told Reuters. The West African nation...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2026 | News
BHP’s Australian copper operations are driving record results, with Copper South Australia and Olympic Dam leading production and pushing copper to 51 per cent of underlying EBITDA. “We continue to prosecute our strategy of operational excellence, distinctive social...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2026 | News
Australian miners are hitting a data wall, forcing a rapid shift from distant cloud processing to local edge computing to drive autonomy, safety and improved environmental outcomes. Modern mine sites are densely instrumented, with sensors and wearables generating vast...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 16, 2026 | News
Copper stocks on the world’s three biggest metal exchanges have exceeded one-million metric tons for the first time in more than two decades, as an inventory build due to soft demand in China adds to recent stockpiling in the United States. Combined copper...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 16, 2026 | News
M Critical Minerals has acquired two copper projects from Rio Tinto, located in Queensland’s North West Minerals Province. The Mittigudi project straddles the Mt Gordon Fault Zone and lies along strike of the Capricorn copper mine, Mount Oxide copper project and also...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 16, 2026 | News
Liebherr’s T 264 mining trucks are proving their reliability in one of Western Australia’s most demanding environments, with a fleet now working hard at a Thiess-operated site in the Pilbara. The Western Australian Thiess team shared their insights in a short video,...