by Gordon Barratt | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Northern Star Resources has executed an agreement with joint venture (JV) partner Artemis Resources to buy the Mt Clement gold project in Western Australia. Located 30 kilometres southwest of Northern Star’s Paulsen’s gold mine and plan, the Mt Clement project...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Widows Creek Power Plant. Photo: TVA Web Team/Wikimedia Commons They’re cavernous, solidly built and often on prime urban land. Now, they’re being reborn as everything from charter schools to solar farms. Before it was shut down in 2013, Nanticoke Generating Station...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Cardiff University engineers are leading a pan-European project to explore the feasibility of enhancing carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in European coal seams. Technology will be used to create a horizontal ‘well system’ at specialist research facilities in Mikolów,...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 22, 2020 | News
Mining has started at the Productora copper project, in Chile, some four months ahead of schedule. The company told shareholders that the recent increases in copper and gold prices has resulted in the push for earlier production. Chilean government agency ENAMI has...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 21, 2020 | News
BHP CEO MIKE HENRY Major BHP announced that it had met its full year production targets for iron-ore, metallurgical coal and its operated copper and energy coal assets, despite impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic. “BHP safely delivered a strong operational...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 21, 2020 | News
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is set to combine its digital mining expertise with Exyn Technologies’ proficiency in aerial robotics in a new partnership.Sandvik aims to develop solutions for mapping and visioning underground mines as operators go through...