by Gordon Barratt | Sep 28, 2022 | News
A worker walks past coal piles at a coal coking plant in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China ERS/William Hong/File Photo China approved 15 gigawatts of new coal-fired power capacity and another 30 million tonnes of coal-based iron-making capacity in the first half of...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 28, 2022 | News
Zambia has agreed with Vedanta Resources Limited to pause hearings on their dispute over Konkola Copper Mines for six months and seek an “amicable settlement”, State mining investment firm ZCCM-IH said. Zambia in May 2019 handed control of KCM to a...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 28, 2022 | News
TOMRA X-Ray Transmission (XRT) sorters provide a game-changing solution for the Mt Carbine mine in Queensland, Australia. On the one hand, they deliver remarkable cost savings while achieving high-purity Tungsten for the processing plant. On the other hand, they...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 28, 2022 | News
Austmine has been appointed as consortium manager to the new BluVeinXL project, providing its members with a central and independent management body. With more than 35 years combined research and development experience, BluVein was formed by Sweden’s electrified...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 27, 2022 | News
Diversified miner Rio Tinto has approved a $55-million investment to start underground mining at the Kennecott copper operations, in Utah. The miner said on Tuesday that underground mining will initially focus on an area known as the Lower Commercial Skarn (LCS),...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 27, 2022 | News
BUENOS AIRES – Units of Argentina’s state oil firm YPF will next month begin lithium exploration in a first-ever entry into the sector by state-run miners as the government aims to benefit from surging demand for the battery metal, according to a...