by Trevor Barratt | Jul 3, 2023 | News
About a month ago, the Tanzania government signed contracts worth approximately $1 billion (USD$667 million) with three Australian companies to mine graphite and rare earths. The deal, which was signed with Evolution Energy Minerals (ASX:EV1), Ecograf (ASX:EGR) and...
by Trevor Barratt | Jul 3, 2023 | News
BHP Group is calling for Australia to lift a long-standing ban on nuclear power as the country moves to decarbonise its electricity system.Nuclear “must be part of the conversation” in Australia, Laura Tyler, chief technical officer at the world’s biggest miner, said...
by Trevor Barratt | Jun 30, 2023 | News
Metso has been awarded orders for the delivery of grinding plant equipment to Origin Mining Company, LLC’s brownfield Mineral Park Mill Restart Project in the USA. Origin Mining is managed under the Waterton Global Resource Management, Inc. umbrella of investments....
by Trevor Barratt | Jun 30, 2023 | News
Germany is pushing South Africa to phase out coal as agreed, despite domestic opposition to the planned mothballing of aged power plants amid repeated power outages in the African country. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited Johannesburg on on the...
by Trevor Barratt | Jun 30, 2023 | News
The UK will run just one coal-fired power plant, Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire, over the coming winter, according to newspaper reports in the UK. This follows talks between National Grid ESO and both Drax and EDF to restart their coal units, the...
by Trevor Barratt | Jun 30, 2023 | News
The world needs critical minerals and Australia has them, but consumers don’t want a ‘dirty’ electric car or cheap labour in their solar panels. As the worldwide push for electrification intensifies, requirements for sustainable production are also...
