April 25, 2019

Coal hurts Anglo American’s Q1 production, 2019 guidance unchanged

Production dropped 6% in the quarter.

April 25, 2019

The brash billionaire who wants to make Australia great again

Clive Palmer, who made his fortune in mining, is running for the Senate on his right-of-center United Australia Party ticket.

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.