by Gordon Barratt | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Earlier this week, the photographer Maria Passer visited some of the ice-covered abandoned buildings of Vorkuta, a dwindling coal-mining city north of the Arctic Circle, in Russia’s Komi Republic. Temperatures in Vorkuta can drop as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit in...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Jeff Halliwell has been appointed as Chair of the Coal Authority, a partner organisation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, from 1 April 2021 replacing Stephen Dingle who has been in the role for 8 years. The Coal Authority works to make a...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 4, 2021 | News
MACA Interquip establishes the King of the Hills site. Image: Red 5. Red 5 has taken a step in restarting mining activities at the King of the Hills (KOTH) gold project in Western Australia after the state government approved its mining proposal. The company has also...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 3, 2021 | News
Polymetal, one of Russia’s largest gold and silver producers, said on Wednesday its 2020 net earnings rose to a record high of $1.-billion due to stronger global prices for precious metals and higher sales of gold. “We are pleased to report record net...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 3, 2021 | News
Greenland Minerals and Energy’s Kvanefjeld In the tenth century, Erik the Red, a Viking from Iceland, was so impressed with the vegetation on another Arctic island he had found he called it “the green land”. Today, it’s Greenland’s rocks...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 3, 2021 | News
The Oyu Tolgoi mine is financed by mining giant Rio Tinto and is one of the catalysts for Mongolia’s mining boom. (Photo by Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/AFP via Getty Images) Although mining was not exempt from challenges brought on by Covid-19, it appears to have been in...
