Boliden Aims to Resume Operations at Europe’s Largest Zinc Mine by Second Quarter of 2024
Boliden is planning to resume wage negotiations next month with around 650 employees at its Tara zinc operation in Ireland with a view to resuming...
Category : Base metals
Tomra XRT Technology Enhances Tungsten Grade at Spanish Mine
Tomra Mining has installed a first X-Ray transmission (XRT) ore sorter at Saloro’s tungsten mine in Barruecopardo, Spain. The sorter, implemented in the beneficiation stage,...
Indonesia’s Nickel Shortage Woes: Challenges Looming for Smelters
Indonesian nickel smelters without their own mines are facing growing problems – Indonesian government warns again of scarce nickel ore reserves and deteriorating nickel quality....
Potential Game-Changer: EU’s New Battery Recycling Rules in Quest for EV Minerals
The clean energy transition will require lots of batteries — primarily to power electric vehicles and to store renewable energy that can be dispatched to...
Top 10 Cobalt Mining Companies and Their Global Mines: A Comprehensive Overview
Trends in the Mining Industry According to PwC Global’s Mine 2023 Report, the top 40 mining companies maintained a total revenue of $711 billion in...
French Region Hit by Deindustrialization Grapples with Hope and Concerns Over Lithium Mine Project
A lithium mining project has drawn hope of economic revival in a region hit by deindustrialisation in central France, but the project promoters are confronted...
Africa’s Race for ‘Clean Energy’ Minerals Risks Echoing a Detrimental Extractive Model
A recent report from U.K.- and U.S.-based nonprofit Global Witness captures the details of how a new mining rush driven by demand for “clean energy”...
€500m Titanium Mining Project Feared To Be Destroying Iran’s Lake Urmia
Videos have shown trucks around Lake Urmia allegedly carrying titanium, sparking fears its mining may be destroying the Middle East’s once largest lake. Iran Briefing,...
Innovative Approaches to Mining for Electric Vehicle Batteries: A More Effective Method
In the middle of Chile’s Atacama Desert, 750,000 acres of bright blue and yellow squares filled with salty groundwater (brine) sprawl across a vast landscape....
Unlocking Profit from Raw Materials: Africa’s Challenge in Establishing Local Refineries
John D. Cooper, director of research at Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, has to postpone our video conference. He apologized a few hours later...