November 23, 2020

RPMGlobal transfers consulting and advisory head office to Toronto

The new Toronto head office is a key component of the company’s refreshed Americas business strategy.

November 23, 2020

Trafigura inks cobalt deal with DRC artisanal miners

Agreement with the Congolese government will help improve conditions at informal mine sites in return for cobalt supplies.

November 23, 2020

Scientists produce diamonds in minutes at room temperature

Researchers say that both Lonsdaleite and regular diamonds can form at room temperatures by just applying high pressures.

November 22, 2020

New tool predicts the flow of groundwater in abandoned coal mines

The solution uses stacks of satellite images of the same location taken every few days and allows for picking up even the slightest topographical changes over time.

November 20, 2020

Rio Tinto’s new aluminium alloys promise to support recycling by die casters

The mining giant’s new alloy series has been developed for high pressure vacuum die casters to mix with their own scrap and recycled cleaned crushed wheels.

November 19, 2020

Barrick, Sandvik partner for BEV truck trials at Turquoise Ridge

During a three-year production trial, Sandvik will deploy four Artisan Z50 BEV trucks at the Turquoise Ridge gold mine in Nevada.

November 19, 2020

ICMM launches interactive tool to help companies achieve sustainable mine closure

The Closure Maturity Framework is designed to help companies map their current position, motivate improvement and measure the state of their operations’ progress towards sustainable closure.

November 19, 2020

Rwanda smelter uses blockchain to comply with EU Conflict Mineral Regulation

LuNa Smelter has joined forces with Minespider to pilot the first blockchain protocol in Rwanda.

November 19, 2020

Albemarle, Tesla and Uber to jointly push electric car use

Together with 27 other companies, they will lobby to reach 100% EV sales in the US by 2030.

November 18, 2020

Supercritical CO2 power plants may help miners reach renewable energy targets

CSIRO and GTI are joining forces to develop a sCO2 power plant that they say could be a game-changer for power generation applications in Australia.