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The COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit has made it clear the Australian Government will largely rely on private and listed companies adopting new green technologies to hit net-zero by 2050, according to the organisers of IMARC. Nowhere will this be more apparent than in Australia’s booming resources sector, and in perhaps no other sector is there[…]

TNG Ltd says an integrated design layout for its flagship Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory of Australia has been developed and delivered by Australian engineering and construction company, Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd. As announced in October, TNG appointed Clough to work with its project team and SMS group for Mount Peake[…]

NextSource Materials has awarded a power supply contract to independent power producer CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) for the long-term supply of solar and thermal generation to power the operations of its Molo graphite project in Madagascar. The contract is for a 20-year term and has been designed to scale with the production output of the Molo[…]

Strandline Resources Ltd says it has made another important step in its preparations for production at the Coburn mineral sands project in Western Australia, executing a long‐term haulage and logistics services agreement with Qube Bulk Pty Ltd. Qube is Australia’s largest integrated provider of export logistics services and is highly experienced in haulage, storage and[…]

Orica and Alpha HPA have signed the Central Queensland Statement of Cooperation as part of a plan to help the state “seize the opportunities that clean energy presents”, Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Steven Miles, says. “Queensland is renewable ready and Central Queensland is perfectly primed to take advantage of the state’s natural[…]

IGO Limited looks set to test VSUN Energy’s vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage technology in a standalone power system (SPS) application at its Nova nickel operation in Western Australia. An SPS supplies power independently to the electricity grid and typically comprises a combination of solar, wind, battery and backup generation from diesel or[…]

Eramet plans to restart construction of its lithium production plant in Argentina after signing an agreement with Tsingshan that will see the China-based steel group finance the build in exchange for a 49.9% interest in the project. The construction of the 24,000 t/y lithium carbonate equivalent plant will start during the March quarter of 2022,[…]

WestStar Industrial’s engineering construction contracting business, Alltype Engineering, has been awarded a rotary kiln erection contract valued at circa-A$12 million ($8.8 million) by Lynas Kalgoorlie Pty Ltd in Western Australia. This contract, in addition to bolstering the WestStar 2022 financial year order, aligns with Alltype Engineering’s strategic plan to focus and deliver on major turnkey[…]

On November 8, 2021 a delivery ceremony for the first set of Weichai 150 t large mining trucks to the coal miner Shenhua Wuhai was held in Yangzhou. The Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group and the Chairman of Weichai Group Tan Xuguang delivered a “Golden Key” to the[…]

NexGen Energy has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contract for the front-end engineering design (FEED) stage of the Rook I uranium project in Saskatchewan, Canada, to Hatch, with work well underway. Hatch, NexGen says, is a leader in project management and engineering and has extensive experience delivering mining projects in Saskatchewan and[…]