by Gordon Barratt | Jan 28, 2022 | News
Bearings are indispensable machine components across all kinds of mechanical systems. If bearings cease to function, entire machines can be brought down with them. Given the sheer size and scale of modern mining machinery and operations, bearing failure must be...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 28, 2022 | News
Coal and non-ferrous metals were among those to underpin Australia’s export price index for the December quarter, while China’s fall in demand for metalliferous ores weighed heavily. The export price index rose 3.5 per cent for the December quarter, contributing to a...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 27, 2022 | News
Palladium soared to the highest in four months, with traders looking to secure supplies amid growing tensions over Ukraine as Russia, the top metal producer, amassed troops near the border. The metal that’s mostly used in catalytic converters rose as much 8.3% on...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 27, 2022 | News
The copper market has cooled since touching record levels above $10,000 a tonne in May, but longer-term fundamentals for the bellwether metal remain bullish thanks to a global effort to electrify transport and shift to renewable power generation....
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 27, 2022 | News
Mt Marion lithium mine. Image: Mineral Resources Mineral Resources (MinRes) has seen strong growth in its lithium operations with realised spodumene prices rising 56 per cent from the previous quarter to $US1153 ($1619) per dry metric tonne (dmt), its December...
by Gordon Barratt | Jan 27, 2022 | News
BHP has signed a major research agreement with the University of Leicester, the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Macquarie University in New South Wales, to identify new areas for the discovery of metals critical to electric vehicles (EV). Craton Margin...