by Gordon Barratt | Mar 18, 2022 | News
Goldman Sachs has called the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine as the biggest upheaval in commodities since 1973 and it has direct implications for Queensland’s biggest export – and climate change. Coal prices have soared and awakened a sector that was...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 17, 2022 | News
Russia spent years building a giant stash of gold, an asset that central banks can turn to during a crisis. But any attempt to sell it will now be a challenge just when it’s needed most. Bank of Russia expanded its gold reserves almost sixfold since the mid-2000s,...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 17, 2022 | News
Caterpillar trucks equipped with Cat MineStar Command have made mining history by autonomously hauling approximately 1.2 billion tonnes of material in 2021. This brings the total material autonomously and safely hauled using Command for hauling trucks to more than...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 17, 2022 | News
Anglo American has successfully trialled biofuel in its chartered shipping fleet to reduce carbon emissions by about 10 per cent. The biofuel blended very-low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) – widely used in traditional maritime fuel – with 10 per cent second-generation...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 17, 2022 | News
The Western Australian Government has partnered with National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) to ask small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to submit low-emissions technology (LET) solutions to the LETs Pitch WA challenge. NERA is a federally funded not-for-profit...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 16, 2022 | News
Global methane emissions from the extraction of coal could rise bymore than 21% if all new mining projects now under development go into operation, according to a research report. The report, by US environmental group Global Energy Monitor, said that methane emissions...
