by Gordon Barratt | Nov 25, 2024 | News
BHP Group expects a global copper deficit of 10-million metric tons a decade from now, a shortfall that is driving its plans to spend at least $11-billion at the world’s biggest copper mine, Escondida, and other projects in Chile....
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 25, 2024 | News
Rio Tinto Group lifted restrictions on exports of alumina from its Gladstone refineries in Australia, according to S&P Global. Rio had declared force majeure — a legal clause allowing a company not to fulfill contractual obligations because of circumstances...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 25, 2024 | News
A new technology has the potential to usher in a ‘significant’ change to the way rare earth elements (REE) are processed. MTM Critical Metals has announced its flash joule heating (FJH) technology has successfully removed nearly 50 per cent of the main impurities...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 25, 2024 | News
Russian troops are approaching a critical metallurgical (or coking) coal mine near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast. The loss of this mine could result in “serious damage to Ukraine’s economy The coal mine is located to the west of central Pokrovsk....
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 25, 2024 | News
Pakistan Railways is planning to the construction a 105 kilo-metre railway line that will intend to link Thar Coal mines with the Port Qasim. “The department has already awarded the contract which will schedule to complete by October 2025,” an official in the Ministry...
by Gordon Barratt | Nov 22, 2024 | News
Canada-listed Montero Mining and Exploration has reached a resolution in its long-running dispute with Tanzania over the expropriation of the Wigu Hill rare earth element (REE) project, confirming a $27-million settlement. Tanzania is to pay Montero in three...
