November 2, 2021 UN at COP26: “Enough of mining…we are digging our own graves” It did not take long for COP26 to turn into a farce with UN Secretary General António Guterres pleading with the gathered highnesses and excellencies to declare enough is enough.
November 2, 2021 New contactless mechanism to monitor phosphates, pH enhances safety of nuclear fuel recycling Two PNNL interns developed a contactless technique to better measure, in real-time, the acidity of highly radioactive solutions.
November 2, 2021 Canada to ban thermal coal exports by 2030 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also committed to impose a hard cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.
November 1, 2021 Argentina, Fortescue unveil $8.4bn green hydrogen investment plan Fortescue is looking at developing the project in the province of Río Negro with a view to producing green hydrogen on an industrial scale.
October 28, 2021 COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation…
October 28, 2021 Case for ‘sticky’ inflation strengthens, as energy crisis intensifies The US Federal Reserve’s official line is that inflation is only temporary.
October 28, 2021 Sibanye-Stillwater CEO outlines strategy on green energy metals "Core to our strategy is embedding ESG excellence as the way we do business and that’s evolved into a sustainability strategy," Neal Froneman says.
October 26, 2021 Aluminum sector needs $1.5 trillion just to decarbonize power Around 60% of the aluminium sector's emissions are from the production of electricity consumed in the smelting process, but investment is also needed to shift to green hydrogen, deploy carbon…
October 26, 2021 Colombian Mining Association establishes sustainable mining standard Producers of coal, gold, nickel, emeralds, copper and industrial minerals in the country will adopt a set of indicators to measure and publicly report on the quality of its management…
October 25, 2021 Eskom, coal suppliers to collaborate on renewables Eskom is South Africa’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
Vale Indonesia says 2026 mining quota won’t be enough to meet demand from new smelters Vale and partners are currently constructing three high-pressure acid leaching plants to extract nickel materials. January 19, 2026 | 07:12 am
