by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. energy transition is well underway. Electricity from solar and wind is increasingly competitive with natural gas power, and the grid is hemorrhaging coal plants that no longer make economic sense. But without any real national climate policy managing the...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 10, 2020 | News
The U.S. Treasury Department recently imposed new sanctions for Chinese companies and vessels accused of skirting United Nations resolutions banning coal shipments from North Korea. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added six new entities — four of them...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 9, 2020 | News
An Australian-developed simulation software platform for improving the efficiency of mineral processing operations is set to take on the world. Developed by the Brisbane-based Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE), Integrated...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 9, 2020 | News
Lithium developer Piedmont Lithium has announced plans to re-domicile from Australia to the US through a proposed scheme of arrangement. Subject to shareholder, regulatory and court approvals, Piedmont will move its primary listing from the ASX to the Nadaq capital...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 9, 2020 | News
Minister Monica Mutsvangwa DIGITALISATION, exploration and value addition on diamonds are some of the strategies that Zimbabwe will pursue as Government seeks to turn the country’s mining sector into a US$12 billion industry by 2023. Despite the mining sector’s...
by Gordon Barratt | Dec 9, 2020 | News
The incoming Biden administration will have an impact on coal with more pressure and regulatory squeeze on the use of fossil fuels and a larger focus on environmental justices but the two Georgia US Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5 could create even bigger impacts...
