April 25, 2019 China’s Australian coking coal imports double in March from Feb Arrivals of Australian coking coal were at 2.23 million tonnes last month, up 92% from 1.16 million tonnes in February.
April 24, 2019 China said to maintain Australia coal go-slow until after polls China will maintain a slowdown in coal imports from Australia until Beijing has assessed government policy in Canberra after federal elections in May.
April 24, 2019 ‘Land no one else wants’ gets solar as coal-and-nukes era fades Solar and wind farms are being developed or built in places not normally associated with clean energy, and in some regions long resistant to it.
April 24, 2019 Top miners back autonomous systems guidelines The document divides operations into six levels, from zero (entirely manual) to five (fully autonomous), and assists in the preparation of a business case for autonomous mining, depending on level…
April 23, 2019 BMW to buy cobalt direct from Australia, Morocco for EV batteries The announcement came as the London Metal Exchange (LME) launched an initiative under which it could ban or delist brands that are not responsibly sourced by 2022.
April 23, 2019 Rio finds one of its largest white diamonds ever at Argyle mine The 28-carat diamond, named Argyle Octavia, will be auctioned in Antwerp, Belgium.
April 22, 2019 Australian mining group asks government to repeal nuclear power ban The Minerals Council of Australia issued a communiqué following Scott Morrison’s comments where he said he would be okay with receiving proposals from the nuclear energy industry.
April 21, 2019 How energy-deprived areas benefit from vanadium redox batteries Vanadium redox flow batteries have a 20+ year lifespan and at the end of the battery’s mechanical life, the electrolyte can be re-used over and over again.
April 19, 2019 Fortescue pares annual iron ore shipments guidance after cyclone The world's no. 4 iron ore miner cut its fiscal 2019 shipments estimate to 165 million-170 million tonnes, down from 165 million-173 million tonnes.
April 19, 2019 Australia’s South32 Q3 coking coal production down 37% vs Q2, beats estimate Production of coking fell to 990 kilo tonnes during the March quarter from 1.6 million tonnes in the second quarter.
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