November 24, 2020 Mining industry making headway on zero emissions truck fleet – ICMM The initiative aims to minimise diesel exhaust and introduce vehicle collision avoidance technology by 2025, and hopes to see greenhouse gas emission-free surface mining vehicles used widely by 2040.
November 24, 2020 US coal miners call on Trump to move on Leader of the nation’s top mining union, representing about 80,000 workers, says is time for Trump to concede.
November 24, 2020 Acacia drops coal, embraces graphene The company was acquired by Graphene Technology Solutions and has re-listed as Sparc Technologies.
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.
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