Chile's Cochilco Holds 2019 Copper Forecast At $3.05/lb
Chile's Cochilco state copper commission on Thursday held its estimate for the price of copper at $3.05 per pound, rising to $3.08 for 2020 on improving prospects ...
RNC Minerals Closes C$12M Bought Deal Financing
RNC Minerals has closed a C$12-million bought deal financing by issuing approximately 24.5 million common shares at a price of C$0.49 each.
The offering was underwritten ...
Australians Drawn To Iroquois Falls For Nickel
A Sudbury junior miner has flipped a northeastern Ontario base metal property to an Australian exploration outfit.
Transition Metals announced April 15 that it has completed the sale of the ...
Galaxy Tumbles After Shelving Argentinian Partner Plans
Shares in Galaxy Resources tumbled after the lithium miner was forced to shelve plans to appoint a joint venture partner for its Argentinian project because no party was prepared to ...
Coal Prices Are Up And U.S. Miners Still Can't Catch A Break
The global coal markets have been on a tear lately. And America’s miners are still tanking.
Blame natural gas. St. Louis, Missouri-based miner Foresight Energy LP is having its ...
Kumba Iron Ore's Kolomela Reduces Liner Replacement Downtime And Improves Safety
Located in South Africa near Postmasburg in the Northern Cape Province, Kolomela is one of Anglo American's Kumba Iron Ore operations.
Kolomela produces over 13 million tonnes per annum ...
New Bowen Basin Coal Mine To Bring Almost 1000 Jobs
A $1 BILLION metallurgical coal mining project in the Bowen Basin is a step closer to being realised after being declared a coordinated project by Queensland's independent Coordinator-General.
Mackay ...
Mining A Top Five Industry For Australian Job Growth
Online recruitment portal SEEK has reported the mining, resources and energy sector as one of the five biggest industries for job growth over the past year.
The recruiter revealed the ...
Queensland Solar Projects Could Become ‘Unviable’ Due To Safety Regulations Row
Solar projects in Queensland could become “unviable”, the renewable energy industry’s peak body says, thanks to a dispute with the state government about new safety regulations for the installation ...
New Acquisition Helps Hexagon Bridge Drill-and-Blast Gap
Optimised fragmentation can save a mine significant costs while improving drill-and-blast processes.
Split Engineering's image-processing technology delivers high-quality information that enables customers to manage their processes from drill to ...
Goldcorp And Newmont Successfully Create Gold Behemoth
Gold miners Goldcorp and Newmont have successfully closed their $10-billion merger, creating the world’s largest gold mining business with operations in the Americas, Africa and Australia.
Newmont Goldcorp will ...
Saracen Posts Record Quarterly Gold Production
Saracen Mineral Holdings says its target of becoming a 400,000 ounce per annum gold producer is on track after the miner posted record quarterly gold production in the three ...
Electric Cars Can Clean Up The Mining Industry – Here's How
Growing demand for electric vehicles is important to help cut transport emissions, but it will also lead to new mining. Without a careful approach, we could create new environmental damage ...
New Gold Gets Nod To Build C$1.8B Mine In British Columbia
The Government of Canada approved New Gold’s Blackwater project, an open-pit gold and silver mine located 110 kilometres southwest of Vanderhoof, British Columbia.
Yesterday the Canadian Minister of Environment ...
Copper Higher On Chinese Growth
Australia-based copper miner Sandfire Resources (ASX: SFR) was one of the market risers on the benchmark S&P/ASX200 in afternoon trade.
It was up more than 3% as it strengthened ...
Adani Convoy Reliant On Coal: Miners
A lengthy convoy travelling across Australia in protest at Adani's planned Queensland mine wouldn't get far without the very industry it's targeting, the resources council says.
More ...
Cowal Leads Evolution’s Continued Gold Growth
Evolution Mining has recorded a significant increase to its gold reserves following continued works on the underground expansion of the Cowal gold operation in New South Wales.
Contractor Pybar launched ...
GFG Alliance Outlines Plan To Consolidate Liberty's Global Steel Assets
GFG Alliance, a privately held conglomerate, said on Thursday it plans to integrate most of the mining and engineering businesses under its Liberty House unit into a single global steel ...
JSPL Refutes Allegations About Not Sharing Info On Australian Mines
Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) on Tuesday refuted allegations of not reporting to the investors issues related to its mines in Australia and termed the charges as “false facts”.
“Arun ...
Gold Production To Achieve Global Record In 2019
Global gold output is expected to grow to a record 109.6 million ounces by the end of 2019, according to S&P Global data.
The increase from 2018 to 2019 ...
Accelerating The Discovery Of Australia’s Future Mines With New Technology
With a swathe of new technologies emerging over the last decade including the advent of electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, the mining sector has not been left behind with a ...
The Impact Of Mobile Work On Partners And Families In Australia
Two researchers have identified a deep-rooted sense of disorientation and loneliness among the partners of Australia’s growing community of mobile workers
Fly-in fly-out work (or FIFO), in which workers ...
BHP Cuts Iron Ore Production Outlook After Australian Cyclone
BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, joined rival Rio Tinto on Wednesday in cutting its forecast for iron ore output after a tropical cyclone, although analysts expect high prices ...
Loading Facility To Cut Emissions
A new operation set to reduce carbon emissions in the Pilbara by trucking clean energy around the State was launched by resources giant Woodside last week.
Premier Mark McGowan officially ...
Metro Mining To Restart Operations At Bauxite Hills Within Weeks
With the area’s rainy season behind it, Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. said yesterday that it will soon restart bauxite mining operations at Bauxite Hills later this month.
The ...