In November 2021, Strata Worldwide announced a strategic partnership with Nerospec SK, a technology firm with a long history of making machines and miners safer, more efficient and more productive... 

Copper developer Hot Chili has started port access negotiations, marking the final critical infrastructure item required for the development of the Costa Fuego copper development hub in Chile. The... 

Pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to support the Giga initiative’s ambitions of connecting every school to... 

West Wits Mining, the Australia-listed Witwatersrand gold reviver that is advancing fast on an initial A$9.5-million capital raise, is the beneficiary of an unexpected gold find that will result in... 

As one of the earliest pioneers in proximity detection systems (PDS) and collision prevention system (CPS), Booyco Electronics has been pushing out the technology envelope for 15 years in the... 

The formal launch of South Africa’s first green ammonia project takes place on Tuesday, against the background of the initiative having already secured an in-principle offtake agreement from a... 

TSX-listed copper, gold and zinc producer First Quantum Minerals has clarified Covid-19 vaccination protocols at its Kansanshi mine, in Solwezi, and its Sentinel mine, in Kalumbila, in Zambia. It... 

Green energy developer Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) in December reached another target; producing hydrogen by using an electrolyser designed and built by the company’s in-house team. The... 

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced that Eskom is preparing to release land in the coal-rich Mpumalanga province for sub-100 MW distributed electricity projects that can now be... 

Hive Hydrogen and Built Africa – together as Hive Hydrogen – as well as Linde plc, through its wholly owned South African subsidiary Afrox, have teamed up to establish a huge green ammonia export... 

There are many regulations that give guidance on best practices to be instituted to uphold a level of safety. The implementation thereof is mostly mandatory, but you do have a choice. The decision... 

ASX- and TSX-listed Xanadu Mines has increased the mineral resource of its Kharmagtai project, in the South Gobi region of Mongolia, to more than one-billion tonnes, including a higher-grade... 

Data from advisory firm Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac) has predicted that lithium-ion battery recycling was not expected to take off before 2030. WoodMac is predicting that electric vehicle (EV)... 

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has called for tougher penalties for protestors who break the law and disrupt the lawful activities of mining companies. The call comes as activist... 

Five new areas in Commonwealth waters have been made available for the exploration of greenhouse gas storage opportunities. Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt said the bidding round opened for... 

SX-listed Andromeda Metals has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with fellow-listed Iron Road over the development of a deep, multi-commodity port at Cape Hardy, in South Australia.... 

Guinea-focused developer Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG) chairperson Guy de Selliers and SMFG CEO Mamady Youla have announced the positive findings of its prefeasibility study (PFS) for... 

Just inland of Australia's east coast, roughly 200 miles from the Great Barrier Reef, a single coal mine run by Glencore emitted so much super-warming methane in a year that it had the same climate... 

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode... 

Energy and chemicals groups Sasol aims to begin producing 6 t/d of green hydrogen at its facility in Sasolburg by 2023, VP for climate change Shamini Harrington reports. In a presentation delivered... 

Proximity detection systems (PDS) or Collision Prevention Systems (CPS) have come a long way in the  last decade, with South Africa‑based Booyco Electronics at the centre of key technological... 

Kamoa-Kakula's Phase 2 construction is progressing well towards a startup in the second quarter of 2022. 

During its first quarter of production, ended September 30, TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines’ Kamoa-Kakula joint venture, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sold 41 490 t of payable copper and... 

An updated scoping study for the Cape Flattery silica sands project, in Far North Queensland, has estimated that the project could produce some 1.35-million tonnes a year of silica sand product... 

CSE-listed Cerro de Pasco Resources (CDPR) on Monday announced that it would buy the Santander polymetallic underground mine and 2 000 t/d mill, in Peru, from TSX-listed Trevali Mining. The... 

Gemfields has uncovered a 7 525 ct (1 505 g) gemstone, which it has called Chipembele – meaning “rhino” in Bemba (an indigenous dialect in Zambia), at its Kagem emerald mine in Zambia. The... 

Amid an increasingly digitalised and connected environment, mining customers are demanding integrated solutions in the mine health and safety space, which necessitates partnerships.  

West Africa-focused explorer Oriole Resources has identified five Priority 1 gold zones in the east of its 90%-owned Central Licence Package (CLP) in central Cameroon, where its teams are... 

ASX-listed Global Energy Ventures (GEV) has unveiled plans to develop a green hydrogen export project on the Tiwi Islands, in the Northern Territory, with a phased capacity of up to 2.8 GW,... 

Canadian miner Pretium Resources (Pretivm) has made a new high-grade gold exploration discovery at the Golden Marmot Zone of Brucejack, affirming the district-scale potential of its property in... 

The front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Beluluane Gas Company (BGC) liquified natural gas (LNG) import terminal project – being developed by Southern African energy group Gigajoule, French... 

The new site, Rooikoop, is the first ammonium nitrate emulsion (ANE) plant outside a mining property in the region. The plant is situated in a strategic location approximately 25km from the Port of... 

Tariffs and the legal framework governing the wheeling of electricity from independent power producers (IPPs), which are taking advantage of the recently declared 100 MW licence threshold, will be... 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in Africa, it is also poised to be among the... 

“Aimed at industries that rely on team based, close proximity production processes for safety and efficiency, the nudge sessions complement existing awareness training within organisations.  

ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals will collaborate with the Vietnamese government to identify new nickel opportunities in the country. Blackstone’s 90% owned subsidiary Ban Phuc Nickel Mines (BPNM)... 

A scoping study into the Lake Throssell sulphate of potash (SoP) project, in Western Australia, has estimated that the project could support production of 245 000 t/y over an initial mine life of... 

Aim-listed African Pioneer on October 2 entered into a two-year option agreement with ASX-listed Sandfire Resources in relation to four of its eight Botswana prospecting licences for a cash payment... 

South Africa-based proximity detection specialist Booyco Electronics is broadening its global reach through collaboration agreements with selected technology integrators. Solutions from Booyco... 

Lithium developer Vulcan Energy Resources has secured a site for its planned lithium hydroxide plant, at the Höchst Chemical Park, outside of Frankfurt. “Securing a site for the central lithium... 

China’s power crisis looks set to spur it to import more coal from a wider range of producers, putting it into competition with European and Indian buyers that are also snapping up more of the...