by Gordon Barratt | Oct 9, 2026 | News
Zambia is negotiating a critical minerals deal with the US government after “decoupling” it from a separate health funding agreement it signed on Thursday, its foreign minister said. “There was this (Memorandum of Understanding) on health and another...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 9, 2026 | News
The sale of the Tahmoor Colliery in New South Wales has been completed, bringing the mine closer to a full resumption of operations under the new GEAR/ M Resources Consortium ownership. Around 150 workers have already returned to site and are undertaking mining work,...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
Two unions at Chile’s Centinela copper mine rejected further contract talks with Antofagasta Minerals on Wednesday and decided to strike after government-mediated negotiations failed to produce a deal. The risk of a strike in Chile, the world’s largest...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
The administration is said to be “strengthening grid reliability and national security by reinvigorating the American coal industry” and “unleashing beautiful, clean coal after years of attack.” Declaring a “national energy emergency” back in January 2025, the Trump...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 8, 2026 | News
BHP has agreed to sell its idled Kambalda Nickel Concentrator (KNC), along with a package of tenements and mineralisation rights, to Gold Fields, in a deal that hands the Western Australian plant to a gold miner already operating in the region. Under agreements...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 7, 2026 | News
In “Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR” journalist Joe Luc Barnes travels across the 15 states that once comprised the Soviet Union. In the excerpt below, Barnes stops off in Karaganda, the heart of Kazakh coal country and once the site of a...
