by Gordon Barratt | Jun 20, 2022 | News
North Antelope Rochelle coal mine in Wyoming. Companies and researchers developing asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, and carbon fibre and extracting rare earths from coal and coal byproducts, now have a 9.5-acre site to work on their...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 17, 2022 | News
A satellite managed by GHGSat, a commercial emissions-monitoring firm, observed thirteen plumes of methane at the Raspadskya mine, the largest coal mine in Russia, in late January. About 90 tons an hour of the greenhouse gas was being released from the mine. This...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 17, 2022 | News
Major BHP has announced that it will retain its New South Wales energy coal (NSWEC) operations in its portfolio. The company told shareholders that it would seek the relevant approvals to continue mining beyond its current mining consent that expires in 2026 and would...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 17, 2022 | News
Fortescue Metals Group has teamed up with multi-national equipment manufacturer Liebherr to develop and supply green mining haul trucks. They will be used for integration with the zero emission power system technologies being developed by Fortescue Future Industries...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 17, 2022 | News
Copper mineralisation at Manindi. Australian explorer Metals Australia has secured an 80 per cent stake in Payne Gully Gold, a private company that owns a slew of key tenements with multiple nickel, copper and gold targets in Tier 1 locations . Metals Australia...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 16, 2022 | News
An LNG tanker docked at the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia The UK spent around £5 billion on imports of Russian oil, gas and coal in the year to April 2022 according to a House of Commons research briefing, as the government looks to halt supplies by the end of this...