April 28, 2023 Women in Mining Spotlight: Jeannette McGill VP and General Manager of Metals and Mining at AspenTech was former Head of Technology & Innovation: Platinum at Anglo American.
April 27, 2023 NASA’s mineral mapping instrument goes into retirement NASA’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars produced maps that make it easy to tie mineral deposits observed in high-resolution images to regional scale trends.
April 26, 2023 Flexible gold sensor may become game-changer for body glucose monitoring Gold offers a new route toward miniaturized, flexible, implanted medical devices to diagnose and treat chronic diseases.
April 24, 2023 Indigenous woman wins prize for campaign against mining firms in Amazon Alessandra Korap Munduruku has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize.
April 23, 2023 Blackbeard didn’t trade with coal, recent discoveries show The US Navy is to blame for some coal found on one of Blackbeard’s ships.
April 21, 2023 Odds ‘n’ Sods: How not to drill a project, Part 1 In 1996 the author was sent to Iran to supervise a drill program at a gold project called Zarshuran. It didn't go well.
April 20, 2023 Mining companies need new strategies to deliver low-carbon transition – report “In the last year, energy security has trumped sustainability,” says Wood Mackenzie.
April 20, 2023 Tailings dams affect diversity of upstream fish species – study Brazilian researchers found that streams flowing into tailings storage dams had fewer catfish species.
April 19, 2023 Conservative design central to meeting tailings standards – report SRK Consulting hosted an international training course in South Africa to improve the fundamental understanding of the engineering properties of mine and industrial waste geomaterials.
April 19, 2023 Graphic: The Six Major Types of Lithium-ion Batteries This infographic shows the tradeoffs between the six major lithium-ion cathode technologies.
China’s copper demand to cool as buyers shut for longer holiday The rally has “increased financial costs at copper rod and pipe producers, and reduced their order books,” analyst says. February 09, 2026 | 10:32 am