by Gordon Barratt | Feb 18, 2022 | News
France needs “long-term import contracts … but also to get lithium at home,” Pompili told the paper in the interview. “If we want to become a society which emits less greenhouse gases, we have to face the consequences: We need materials like...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 18, 2022 | News
Image: Whitehaven Coal Whitehaven Coal has made the best of a bad situation, achieving record first-half earnings despite lower production following the scheduled Narrabri mine longwall move. The company produced 6.7 million tonnes of coal for the first half of the...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 18, 2022 | News
Sandvik’s TH665B battery-electric underground mining truck. Image: Sandvik. Sandvik has almost completed testing the largest battery-electric underground mining truck for use at AngloGold Ashanti’s Sunrise Dam gold mine in Western Australia. The 65-tonne TH655B...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2022 | News
The International Energy Agency (IEA) urged the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies to address a widening shortfall in their oil production as a volatile market sends crude prices rocketing toward $100 a barrel. While fuel...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2022 | News
The German government is planning to transfer hydrogen production technology to African countries amid its efforts to quit coal and nuclear energy, a German government official said. Germany will have to import 40% to 60% of the hydrogen it needs for its energy...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 17, 2022 | News
The government recently announced that a total of 42 coal blocks have been auctioned till date for commercial mining. Of the said blocks, 10 coal mines were auctioned recently under the third tranche, the coal ministry said in a statement. “Under the commercial...
