by Gordon Barratt | Aug 23, 2021 | News
Ampcontrol, LAVO and Boundary Power have created a strategic partnership to develop power storage solutions for data centres as well as industrial and mining applications. The agreement will combine Ampcontrol’s electric engineering, LAVO’s hydrogen storage patents...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 20, 2021 | News
U.S. thermal coal producers watched their domestic customer base shrink in 2020 as utilities continued to announce coal-fired power plant closures and transition to less expensive renewable and natural gas sources. Companies delivered about 33.4% of the total coal...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 20, 2021 | News
Modern civilisation was built on fossil fuels, with the invention and commercialisation of the internal combustion engine during the 1800s setting the stage for petroleum-based vehicles to be dominant worldwide for the next 150 years. Various oil majors...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 20, 2021 | News
A Chilean court ordered BHP’s Cerro Colorado copper mine on Thursday to stop pumping water from an aquifer over environmental concerns, according to filings seen by Reuters. The same First Environmental Court in July ruled that the relatively...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 20, 2021 | News
Metso Outotec is deploying its Concorde cell flotation technology for a “major nickel producer in Western Australia” with start-up of the new flotation cells set to commence in 2022. According to a company statement, the producer is one of the largest nickel-producing...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 20, 2021 | News
Employment and wages have shown promising signs in the mining industry, with a return to record total full-time earnings, according to an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report for May 2021. Across every industry in Australia, average weekly ordinary time...