by Gordon Barratt | Feb 16, 2023 | News
Sandvik’s stand at the Sweden–Australia High-Level Sustainable Mining Summit in Sydney drew its fair share of interested parties, including two Swedish royals. Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Daniel joined attendees to take a...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 16, 2023 | News
Whitehaven has a reported a half year net profit of $1.8 billion in a record-breaking performance. The coal miner can also boast a 15 per cent year on year improvement in safety performance and a run-of-mine (RoM) managed production of 8.8 million tonnes (Mt) compared...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 15, 2023 | News
Achieving a circular economy will require much more efficient mining and processing, much more recycling of metals, much more reprocessing and recycling of mine waste, particularly tailings dumps and dams. So highlighted Finnish Geological Survey...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 15, 2023 | News
While Canada-based First Quantum Minerals remains locked in discussions with the government of Panama surrounding a refreshed concession contract for the Cobre Panamá copper mine, the clock is ticking for concentrate exports to restart as storage capacity will be a...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 15, 2023 | News
Global spending on electric vehicles (EVs) is surging. According a new report published by BloombergNEF on investment in the energy transition, annual spending on passenger EVs hit $388-billion in 2022, up 53% from the year before. With the 2022 tally included, the...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 15, 2023 | News
Image: MinRes Mineral Resources (MinRes) will be the first WA miner to purchase of a fleet of MEVCO electric vehicles for use in its mining operations. The fleet of light vehicles is made up of Toyota Hilux utes, converted from diesel engines to all-electric...
