by Gordon Barratt | Sep 23, 2020 | News
MAXAM is excited to present the all-new MS453 53/80R63 open pit mining tire to their range of large mining tires. Manufactured in MAXAM’s state-of-the-art radial tire facility, the MS453 is developed through the use of cutting-edge engineering and groundbreaking...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Tesla has revealed at its Tesla Battery Day that the company is planning to break into the battery metals mining business. Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk and manufacturing industry executive Drew Baglino said that the company had acquired the rights to a...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 23, 2020 | News
A Bortana electric vehicle. IGO has collaborated with Barminco to complete a pilot of a battery electric light vehicle (BELV) at its Nova operation in Western Australia. The company selected a Safescape Bortana BELV, which was built on the chassis of a diesel-powered...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Besides working in Pennsylvania, Texas Mineral Resources also processes rare earths at the Round Top project in Texas, pictured here. (Image courtesy of USA Rare Earth). The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technical Laboratory announced that it has...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 23, 2020 | News
Despite a long-term trend of coal power plant closures, and dented energy demand more recently due to the coronavirus crisis, upside for coal has been materializing in the US as gas-fired generators reacted to higher prices in the summer months and coal regained some...
by Gordon Barratt | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Aerial picture of Kakula’s initial 3.8-million-tonne-a-year processing plant under construction. Toronto-listed Ivanhoe Mines is accelerating its Kamoa-Kakula expansion in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prepare for an expected surge in copper demand that...