by Gordon Barratt | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Image: ThoroughTec Simulation Caterpillar Mining has chosen ThoroughTec Simulation as its approved supplier of mining equipment simulators via a global agreement. The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) will provide ThoroughTec with confidential Cat machine...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 8, 2021 | News
Mongolia’s government is seeking an agreement from miner Rio Tinto to terminate a deal to expand the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in the Gobi Desert, the Financial Times said, citing people with knowledge of the situation. The government has asked the Anglo-Australian...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 8, 2021 | News
Diamond jewellery demand will recover to pre-pandemic levels between 2022 and 2024, with China leading the way, a report commissioned by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre predicted. Demand recovery will diverge depending on lockdown policies, government support, and...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 8, 2021 | News
IN the past decade, the mining industry lifted the hopes of a country that faced a myriad of crises. Mining generates over US$4 million annually and together with tourism and tobacco, have kept foreign currency trickling in to keep the wheels of the economy creaking...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 5, 2021 | News
Junior Volt Resources has signed a term sheet to potentially acquire a 70% interest in the Zavalievsky graphite business, in the Ukraine. Zavalievsky is a long life graphite operation that has been operational for 87 years, and currently produces around 250 000 t/y of...
by Gordon Barratt | Feb 5, 2021 | News
The Azsalaam power project is a 1.32GW coal-fired power generation facility under construction in the Chittagong district of Bangladesh. The project is being developed on a built, own and operate (BOO) basis of through a joint venture between S. Alam Group and China’s...
