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Bill Gates-Led Fund Invests in Making Lithium Mining More Sustainable

Thursday, February 20th, 2020

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 read more >

Newmont to automate Boddington trucks in world first

Thursday, February 20th, 2020

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 read more >

ORICA ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF LEADING PERUVIAN EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURER

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

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 read more >

Silver Lake lines up Macmahon for $200m contract

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

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 read more >

Mark Latham says Australians are ‘dreaming’ if they think the country can survive without coal-fired power

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

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 read more >

Rio Tinto Unveils Plan For Coal-Fired Power Plant At Oyu Tolgoi

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto PLC said it has submitted plans for a coal-fired power plant for the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia. Rio Tinto has read more >

Mine of tomorrow’ completes $30-million water protection project

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

A global mining company that is building a “mine of tomorrow” in southern Arizona with goals for net-zero emissions and water recycling recently completed a read more >

Finland must make haste with mining act reform, underlines Mikkonen

Wednesday, February 19th, 2020

Krista Mikkonen (Greens), the Minister of Climate and the Environment, says the government must make haste with the mining act reform it outlined in its read more >

Australian universities to offer fresh mining-related courses

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has partnered with Australian universities to develop career pathways into the mining industry. The MCA plans to invest over read more >

OZ Minerals, Sandfire to create QLD minerals hub

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Image: Minotaur Exploration. Minotaur Exploration and OZ Minerals’ Cloncurry Alliance has formed a joint venture (JV) with Sandfire Resources to explore a tenement group in read more >

Aspire Mining makes steady progress with plan for early development of Ovoot Coking Coal Project

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

The 560-kilometre special-purpose road to transport coal to the nearest railhead has been included in the provincial 2030 Road Development Plan. The approved 560 kilometre read more >

China thermal coal market faces 2-3 month short squeeze due to coronavirus

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

China’s domestic thermal coal market faces a 2-3 month short squeeze as a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak curtails production more than demand, Noble Resources’ chief read more >

Miners welcome Indonesia’s new jobs bill that could spur coal growth

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Miners have welcomed proposed changes to Indonesian mining rules under a new law aimed at boosting investment, though critics are concerned that the changes could read more >

Super Pit leads Saracen to record production

Monday, February 17th, 2020

Kalgoorlie’s Super Pit. Saracen Mineral Holdings is on course to meet its 2020 financial year production guidance of more than 500,000 ounces of gold. This read more >

Anglo American the only Sirius lifeline

Monday, February 17th, 2020

The Woodsmith Mine. Image: Sirius Minerals. Sirius Minerals has failed to secure an investor that would save it from an acquisition by parent company Anglo read more >

Poverty to Blame for Artisanal Mining – Maguwu

Monday, February 17th, 2020

he Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) says artisanal mining in the country is a poverty driven crisis and there is need for government to read more >

Coal vs. clean energy: The future can’t leave host communities behind

Monday, February 17th, 2020

A coal train on the tracks leading to the Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker.   In recent months, the Star Tribune and other media outlets read more >

Poland’s Last New Coal Plant Could Be Built as Soon as This Year

Monday, February 17th, 2020

Poland’s last coal-fired power plant is set to get built much sooner than forecast. It’s just not the one that was expected. The country, which read more >

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