Australia wrestles with saving the Great Barrier Reef
Ask four Australians why the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching, and you’ll hear four different answers.
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More than 400 jobs to go at Glencore’s Hail Creek coal mine
The company also said it would reconfigure the mining methods used at Hail Creek, a process that will be phased in over the next 18 months.
Australia’s coal sector hopeful
A new report prepared for the Minerals Council of Australia forecasts that the demand for metallurgical coal to 2030 will grow by over 95Mt.
B.C’s historical Kootenay-Boundary district mining region gathers attention
Golden Dawn Minerals, KG Exploration Inc. and GGX Gold Corp. are among the companies setting foot in the area.
US develops new gold-silver alloy for military use
A new gold-silver alloy was created with the idea of lightening the load and enhance the power of devices used by soldiers.
The electric-vehicle future will run on two wheels: Adam Minter
E-bikes would require compact, lightweight, and reliable lithium-ion batteries similar to those that power everything from iPhones to Teslas.
What’s next as Tianqi, SQM face off in Chile court
On Oct. 11, Chile's Constitutional Court put the brakes on a $4 billion deal allowing the sale of A 24 percent stake in SQM to China's Tianqi Lithium Corp.
New corporate alliance aims to bring better efficiency and ethics to cobalt mining industry
First Cobalt and Fisker Inc. are focused on providing cobalt to the American EV market efficiently, and on maintaining stringent ethical mining practices.
Chile environmental court orders Barrick to close Pascua-Lama gold mine
The operation was put on hold in 2013 due to environmental issues, political opposition, labor unrest and development costs that ballooned to $8.5 billion.
