by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
China’s coal supply has given indications of picking up with daily production reaching a new high this year following government measures to boost output amid power shortages, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
TSX-listed NorZinc is starting on an updated definitive feasibility study for its Prairie Creek project, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, having completed a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA). The PEA incorporates an updated mineral resource estimate...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
Lithium miner Piedmont Lithium has increased the mineral resource estimate for its Carolina project to 44.2-million tonnes, grading 1.08% lithium oxide for about 1.1-million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent. About 774 000 t of this lithium carbonate equivalent...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
Mine operators need to take hydrogen and fuel cells very seriously as a pathway to decarbonisation, a webinar hosted by law firm Fasken heard this week. “There’s no pathway to zero carbon that does not include hydrogen and fuel cells,” H2GO Canada CEO Bob...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
Cat 793F autonomous trucks at loading face. Rio Tinto has set a target of 80 per cent autonomous haul trucks in 2022, as it seeks to reduce costs while satisfying demand for materials. Speaking at Rio Tinto’s investor seminar on October 20, Iron Ore chief executive...
by Gordon Barratt | Oct 22, 2021 | News
It was gold price, lithium demand and China’s appetite for copper that dominated much of the discussion at Mines and Money Online Connect at IMARC this week. Mines and Money Online Connect saw 90 mining companies, more than 600 investors and more than 2000...
