December 7, 2021 Sigma Lithium kicks off construction of largest hard rock project in the Americas The miner has begun building the production plant foundation and infrastructure for its Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil.
December 7, 2021 BMW hits 1m EV sales, targets 2m fully electric sales by 2025 The carmaker aims for at least 50% of global sales to be fully electric by 2030.
December 6, 2021 Advanced mining simulators boost training at Holmesglen Institute in Oz The simulators will be deployed at the Australian-first, Victorian Tunnelling Centre at Drummond Street campus, Chadstone, Victoria, which offers specialist training to workers in the mining, construction and tunnelling sectors.
December 6, 2021 MineHub launches solution for carbon tracking and ESG compliance The new software lets users digitalize key aspects in the administration, certification and reporting of environmental, social and governance credentials.
December 6, 2021 Artificial material mimics rare earth compounds Researchers at Aalto University created a new material with quantum properties that normally require rare earth compounds.
December 2, 2021 Energy Department funding experiments to fight methane with plasma, copper The funding, $35 million in total, is being awarded to 12 projects.
December 2, 2021 As Freeport converts mining trucks to green power, costs unclear It's migrating its fleet of roughly 600 haul trucks and numerous other pieces of mining equipment to electric or hydrogen power.
December 2, 2021 Astronomers find new clues on the origin of gold Black holes orbited by accretion disks may be involved in the creation of gold.
December 1, 2021 Asteroid “ideal for mining exploration” to enter Earth’s orbit next week An asteroid as big as a football field has been singled out by scientists as an ideal target for a mining exploration mission.
November 30, 2021 Why OEMs are upping battery recycling capacity – report According to IDTechEx, OEMs’ growing interest in battery recycling means that 12 million tonnes of li-ion batteries will be recycled by 2042.
Polish central bank approves plan to buy 150 tons of gold “This will place Poland among the elite 10 countries with the largest gold reserves in the world,” the central bank said. January 20, 2026 | 10:33 am
