UN experts want better gold data as trade fuels Congo violence
Governments need to improve and make public their gold trade data to help stem smuggling and violence around mines in eastern DRC.
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Guinea gives Simandou iron ore mine developers 14-day deadline
Guinea has grown increasingly impatient with the companies that control the giant Simandou deposit.
Codelco unions ready strike after troubled Chile smelter shuttered
Unions had threatened to strike for the past week if the Codelco board did not invest to upgrade the Ventanas smelter.
New mapping method may lead to discovery of new geothermal energy, green metal resources
Researchers at the University of Twente developed a new method to analyze the earth's continental crust.
Bolivia delays decision on lithium mining tie-ups to December
The government had previously planned to announce its final selection last month.
Oil producers are planning the world’s biggest floating wind farm
The companies are looking at options to build a 1-gigawatt wind farm to power operations in the Troll and Oseberg oil and gas fields in the North Sea.
How the energy market buckled in a fossil fuel superpower
Australia has set alarms ringing over the challenge faced even by developed nations in managing and regulating the energy transition.
