February 3, 2021 Freeport names Richard Adkerson chair The board also appointed CFO Kathleen Quirk as president.
February 3, 2021 No schmoozing and boozing as the Indaba mining jamboree goes online This year the Investing in African Mining Indaba is online only and has been cut to two days rather than four.
February 2, 2021 Former Anglo American boss Cynthia Carroll joins Glencore board Carroll is the third female to become executive director at the Swiss miner and commodities trader.
February 2, 2021 Experts warn of brewing space mining war among US, China and Russia China and Russia are joining forces to keep America's increasing attempts to dominate extra-terrestrial commerce at bay.
February 1, 2021 Premier unveils top-level team for spun-off i-80 Gold The new US-focused gold miner will be led by Premier's current president and CEO Ewan Downie.
January 29, 2021 Odds ‘n’ Sods Part I: Finding a job as a geologist in the 1980s "I had a gilded future ahead of me as a captain of the extractive industries."
January 29, 2021 Mimik technology takes on real-time mining data Company has developed a Hybrid Edge Cloud platform that enables computing devices, including sensors on mining equipment, to act as cloud servers.
January 29, 2021 Queensland’s coal, resource jobs soar Over 39,000 people were working in Queensland’s coal industry in the last quarter of 2020.
January 27, 2021 Rio Tinto unveils new executive team The company has named a new chief operating officer and a chief executive for its Australia business, as the miner works to rebuild partnerships with Indigenous groups.
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