October 8, 2017

Newcrest Mining looks to solar at Cadia mine as power prices soar

Newcrest Mining chief executive Sandeep Biswas says the gold miner is examining whether a solar farm could be installed at it flagship Cadia mine in NSW to help insulate the…

October 8, 2017

New program in Queensland aims to attract 3,000 new mining jobs

The Queensland Government is getting behind a pilot program that, together with an industry group, is hoping to bring thousands of mining equipment and services positions to the Bowen Basin…

October 8, 2017

Australians protest Carmichael coal mine in ‘national day of action’

Australians opposed to the Adani Group's Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland expressed their displeasure at the project on Saturday.

October 6, 2017

Russia takes advantage of China’s North Korea coal ban

As North Korean imports of anthracite coal have waned with sanctions, those from Russia have soared.

October 6, 2017

Top iron ore exporter sees price dipping below $50 a tonne by 2019

Australia’s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science sees iron ore prices averaging $50 a tonne next year, and dropping to $49 a tonne in 2019.

October 5, 2017

Barrick to pay $20 million to settle Pascua-Lama arbitration case

Lawsuit was filed last year after the miner halted payments due to a local group.

October 5, 2017

Australia’s Port Hedland China iron ore exports up 2.8 pct in Sept — port

Overall, September iron ore shipments from the world's biggest export terminal for the steelmaking raw material increased to 43.4 million tonnes from 42.8 million in August.

October 4, 2017

Robots under Swedish forest breathe life into ancient mines

Mining ihas been one of the last sectors to use a surge in computer processing power, cloud data storage and complex algorithms to make sense of huge amounts of scattered…

October 3, 2017

Adani aims to wrap-up Australia project funding by March

India's Adani Enterprises Ltd aims to tie-up financing for its Carmichael coal mine project in Australia by March 2018, a senior company executive told Reuters, adding it would look to…

October 2, 2017

Infrastructure critical to mining success

AECOM’s Technical Director Maneesh Gupta joins the roster of speakers that will present at the 2017 International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC)