by Gordon Barratt | May 30, 2022 | News
Group 6 Metals has collaborated with the University of Tasmania on a project expected to benefit the company’s tungsten’s assets on King Island, Tasmania. The University of Tasmania’s world-renowned Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences (CODES) has been granted...
by Gordon Barratt | May 30, 2022 | News
Coal production by Coal India (CIL) has grown slower than the captive mines, awarded over the last six years. During 2020-22, production from the captive mines jumped by 38.5 per cent while CIL saw a tepid growth of 3.4 per cent, according to government data....
by Gordon Barratt | May 30, 2022 | News
David Byrd, of Sulphur, is one of the few people left who sell coal for household uses. Think heaters and blacksmiths. And after doing it for 62 years, he can tell the quality of each piece just by feeling them. “See how smooth that is?” he said, picking up a piece he...
by Gordon Barratt | May 27, 2022 | News
K+S Potash Canada (KSPC) unveiled its long-term growth plan for the Bethune mine, in Saskatchewan, announcing that it would effectively double production capacity over the next couple of decades towards four-million tonnes a year. “Saskatchewan has the food, fuel and...
by Gordon Barratt | May 27, 2022 | News
The Biden administration is outlining new pollution restrictions that would thwart a long-stalled plan to mine for gold near Alaska’s Bristol Bay. Under the proposed requirements, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would broadly bar developers of the planned...
by Gordon Barratt | May 27, 2022 | News
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced the availability of more than US$10.5 million in fiscal year 2022 state grant funding to provide federally mandated training and retraining of miners and mine operators working...
