by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
In a nation-first, NSW will have transport companies, miners, manufactures and electricity producers take on the majority of the responsibility to cut emissions. The NSW Environment Protection Agency (EPA) will target around 50,000 companies to ensure they are...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 20, 2023 | News
BHP’s accelerator program, BHP Xplor, has announced its first cohort of seven companies to help with copper, nickel and other critical mineral discoveries. BHP Xplor was introduced by the major miner in August 2022 and has since gone through hundreds of...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Yucatan governor Mauricio Vila Dosal (left ) with Swedish Ambassador Gunner Alden ( centre ) and ABB ,s Vicente Magana New facility in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico to expand engineering capacity by approximately 25 percent Initial $1million investment in MXTEC supports...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Brazilian miner Vale plans to spend about 7.8-billion reais ($1.53-billion) this year on repairs related to the deadly collapse of a tailings dam in the mining town of Brumadinho., The spending plan comes on the same day that Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered lower...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 19, 2023 | News
The Democratic Republic of Congo expects to reach an agreement on overhauling $6-billion of an infrastructure-for-minerals deal with Chinese investors this year, Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi told Reuters in an interview. The government is in active talks...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 19, 2023 | News
Addressing the World Economic Forum summit, Rio Tinto’s chief executive officer (CEO) discussed the limitations of solar energy supply in powering their mining operations in Australia. In particular, Jakob Stausholm made note of the enormous sites required for...