Caterpillar (Cat), Thiess, and WesTrac recently hit one million autonomous miles drilled at a BHP mine. Australian Mining investigates how they pulled it off. The journey toward autonomous drilling at the mine didn’t happen overnight. A multistep...
Copper and gold miner Freeport Indonesia on Thursday launched its $3.7-billion copper smelter in Gresik, East Java, that has a total input capacity of 1.7-million metric tons of copper concentrate. The smelter’s output capacity will reach around 650 000 t of...
Norway offered large areas of the Arctic region for its inaugural seabed mineral licensing round on Wednesday and aims to award exploration permits during the first half of 2025, the country’s energy ministry said. Norway may become the first country in the...
Sibanye Stillwater will be forced to halt operations at its Montana palladium mine if prices don’t recover soon, according to CEO Neal Froneman. “The future of Stillwater remains in the balance,” the CEO said on Tuesday, when asked at a London conference about the...
Ramelius Resources has purchased a strategic stake in Spartan Resources, a gold company currently developing the Dalgaranga gold project in Western Australia. Ramelius has purchased 98.5 million shares in Spartan, representing 8.9 per cent of Spartan’s ordinary shares...
Lynas Rare Earths has announced its Malaysian arm will become a producer of two new separated heavy rare earths (HRE) as soon as next year. A new process will produce separated dysprosium (Dy) and terbium (Tb) at Lynas Malaysia for the first time and will complement...
