by Gordon Barratt | Feb 24, 2023 | News
A deadly coal mining collapse in China this week is one of a growing number of industry accidents over the last year, government statistics show, coinciding with Beijing’s recent push for higher production to improve energy security. At least six people were...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 24, 2023 | News
Vulcan Energy Resources has marked another milestone at its Zero Carbon lithium project, in Germany, receiving a preliminary environmental approval (EIA) for drilling further development wells at its core Insheim licence. The preliminary EIA approval found that the...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 24, 2023 | News
Newmont CEO Tom Palmer US-based gold major Newmont CEO Tom Palmer has expressed his disappointment in the Newcrest board’s rejection of the group’s $17-billion takeover of the Australia-based company. Newmont is engaging with the Newcrest team in relation to their...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 24, 2023 | News
Mining giant BHP is trialling a new fuel alternative at its Yandi iron ore operations in WA, and it’s made from vegetable oil. The hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is a low-carbon diesel fuel, colloquially known as green diesel. It can be used...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 24, 2023 | News
Electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla has been teasing a possible agreement with a critical minerals company since mid-2022 – and it seems that it has finally come to fruition. Under a new agreement, Australia’s Magnis Energy Technologies will supply...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 23, 2023 | News
Anglo American CEO Duncan Wanblad. All policy in South Africa specifically relating to energy certainly does tend to be moving into a path of time and space where it really is incentivising the building out of renewable energy generation capacity in the country, said...
