by Gordon Barratt | Mar 10, 2025 | News
BHP has committed to investing up to A$40-million for the exploration of potential Tier 1 copper/silver deposits in Botswana, in partnership with Australia-listed Cobre. The agreement, announced on Monday, outlines an exploration funding package aimed at...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 10, 2025 | News
Rio Tinto Group has scrapped plans to raise as much as $5-billion in a share sale following pushback from investors, people with knowledge of the matter said. Executives at the mining giant had floated the possibility of an equity offering in recent investor meetings...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 7, 2025 | News
China’s iron-ore imports in the first two months of 2025 fell by 8.4% from the same period a year earlier, curbed by weather-related supply disruption in major producer Australia. The world’s largest iron ore consumer brought in 191.36-million metric tons...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 7, 2025 | News
A Moroccan government committee on recently approved green hydrogen projects aiming to produce ammonia, steel and industrial fuel worth a total of 319-billion dirhams ($32.5-billion). The Moroccan committee picked the United States’ Ortus, Spain’s Acciona...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 7, 2025 | News
Macmahon Holdings has been appointed as the underground mining services contractor at the Poboya gold project in Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the interim contract taking effect immediately. Poboya is owned by PT Citra Palu Minerals (CPM), a PT Bumi Resources Minerals Tbk...
by Gordon Barratt | Mar 7, 2025 | News
Caterpillar has unveiled its Cat 395 long reach excavator (LRE), the latest long-reach excavator built for high-performance dredging, ditch cleaning and canal maintenance. With a maximum digging depth of nearly 22m and ground-level reach of up to 28m, Caterpillar says...
