by Gordon Barratt | Aug 7, 2020 | News
COVID-19 testing in Tabubil, Papua New Guinea. Image: Ok Tedi Mining. Ok Tedi Mining has halted operations in Tabubil, Papua New Guinea after the mining town recorded seven positive COVID-19 cases. The cases occurred despite Ok Tedi shutting down all charter flights...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 7, 2020 | News
Scott Technology chief executive officer John Kippenberger. Image: Scott Technology. Rio Tinto has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to Scott Technology to provide equipment for a sample preparation and analysis laboratory at the Robe Valley iron ore mine in...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 7, 2020 | News
The largest coal mining company in the United States substantially lowered the value of one of its top-producing thermal coal assets based on low expectations for future coal demand. Peabody Energy Corp. impaired the value of its North Antelope Rochelle coal mine in...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 7, 2020 | News
Theta Gold Mines Ltd is set to become a sustainable gold miner with more than 6 million ounces of resources as it advances plans for trial mining later this year at the Starter Theta Pit Gold Project in South Africa. In preparation for mining, geotechnical drilling...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 6, 2020 | News
Metso Outotec will deliver two primary crushing stations for a mine located in the Russian Far East. The EUR 23 million order, which has been booked in former Metso Minerals’ Q2 2020 orders received, will be delivered by Metso Outotec Corporation (formed when Metso...
by Gordon Barratt | Aug 6, 2020 | News
The Corrego do Feijao tailings dam collapse, in Brumadinho, left the nearby river polluted The Global Tailings Review (GTR) on August 5 launched the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, which aims to ensure tailings dam failures are a thing of the past....
