Education Spotlight: Safety and operational efficiency
Vista Training CEO and Edumine course designer Bruce Rabe learned very early in life how vital safety measures are to operating industrial machinery.
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Feeding copper to microbes may help curb GHG emissions
Copper is key to avoiding the production of nitrous oxide, the third most potent greenhouse gas.
Barrick close to final deal with Pakistan on $7bn copper project
Teams from Barrick and Pakistan are currently finalizing a framework deal to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.
BHP may reconsider investments in Chile if tax hikes go forward
BHP said in a statement that higher taxes would make Chile more expensive than other top mining jurisdictions like Australia, Canada and Peru.
CMOC’s Congo mine suspends copper and cobalt exports
MOC's Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine has suspended all exports.
Hundreds of hectares of pristine rainforest destroyed by illegal mining in Venezuela
A local NGO says that the destruction of Venezuela’s tropical rainforest by illegal miners and armed groups is done with authorities’ consent.
Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals
The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.
Tailings pond collapse kills dozens of freshwater fish in Costa Rica
Torrential rains are suspected to be the cause of the collapse of a tailings pond in the western Abangares canton.
End of coal ban would stabilize China relations, Australia says
Chinese bureaucrats are proposing that senior leaders should authorize the resumption of coal purchases as tensions between Beijing and Canberra begin to ease.
