January 20, 2021

BHP slashes value of Australian coal assets

Company cut the value of its Mt Arthur thermal coal mine in New South Wales by about $1.25bn, as it seeks to sell the asset.

January 19, 2021

Zen’s graphene: from a mine in Ontario to the hands of frontline workers

The company signed an agreement with personal protective equipment producer TreborRx, whose team will apply the coating on nitrile gloves to be distributed in Canada, the US and Mexico.

January 18, 2021

Sensemetrics launches Thread X3

The company aims to bring secure, cloud-managed IIoT to distributed environments.

January 18, 2021

Researchers use niobium, molybdenum to find heat-tolerant alloys for aircraft

Japanese researchers are testing materials that can stand high temperatures and improve the efficiency of gas turbines in power plants and aircraft.

January 15, 2021

FLSmidth in talks to buy Thyssenkrupp’s mining unit

The negotiations are at a non-binding stage, FLSmidth said, and there can be no assurance as to their result.

January 15, 2021

Stakes high for Rio Tinto, Mongolia as Oyu Tolgoi talks loom

The next three to six months will be crucial to the future of the vast copper-gold mine, as the companies behind the operation negotiate with the government.

January 14, 2021

Rio Tinto to open North America’s first scandium plant in June

Modular plant could initially supply 20% of global market for the critical mineral.

January 14, 2021

RPMGlobal kicks off 2021 with the first major sale of Strategic Design Optimizer

Company has completed the first sale of its new parametric design product, the Strategic Design Optimizer, following successful beta testing.

January 12, 2021

RST advances technology for treatment and rehabilitation of tailings dams

RST’s advanced crusting agents are being used by mine operations and power plants to control dust when the surface moisture in tailings dams is evaporated or recycled.

January 11, 2021

Emesent technology helps Petra Diamonds save on ore pass remediation

Highly accurate point cloud data sets from a Hovermap scan allowed mine engineers to visualize the condition of ore passes for the first time and avoid spending $350,000, on remediation.