Archives: Energy minerals

Nordic Mining, through its wholly owned subsidiary Nordic Rutile AS, has entered into letters of intent with Sunnfjord Industripartner AS, Åsen & Øvrelid AS, Nordic Bulk AS, and Normatic AS as partners for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Engebø rutile and garnet project in Norway. The LOIs are a formalisation of the[…]

Mkango Resources has joined with Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Pulawy SA to work towards development of a rare earth separation plant in Poland. A new Polish wholly owned subsidiary of Mkango, Mkango Polska, has been established, with an experienced Country Director for Poland, Jarosław Pączek, appointed. Pączek will be joined by rare earth separation experts,[…]

Jetti Resources’ plan to rapidly rollout its breakthrough copper extraction technology has been given a boost with the announcement of $50 million in funding from the likes of Mitsubishi Corp, Freeport-McMoRan, BHP Ventures, Orion Resource Partners, and funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price Associates Inc. The Series C funding round was led by[…]

Canada Nickel Company, following an assessment from metals and mining ESG research company, Skarn Associates, claims its Crawford project in Ontario, Canada, could have an industry leading low carbon footprint, lower than 99.7% of existing global nickel production. When in operation, Crawford is expected to produce 2.05 t of carbon dioxide (CO2) per tonne of[…]

A day after securing the sale of the first parcel of material from its Butcherbird manganese project in Western Australia, Element 25 Ltd has signed a letter of intent with AK Evans Group Australia for transportation of manganese concentrate from the project to Utah Point in Port Hedland. AK Evans is a privately owned construction,[…]

There are not many truly global coal longwall technology companies but Poland’s FAMUR SA, headquartered in Katowice, is certainly one of them and has been making progress on two fronts recently. Firstly it has developed a FAMUR automated longwall system in response to increasing geological and human constraints during underground operations. Secondly, it managed to[…]

Leading Indian contract mining group Thriveni Earthmovers is one of the largest Mine Developer and Operator (MDO) players in the country and is already noted for its innovative approach to mining. One of the challenges faced by mine operators to move towards green mining practices is the huge capital required to invest in new electric[…]

FAM GmbH Germany says it recently commenced activities to further develop and strengthen its FAM Canada office in Calgary, as part of its commodity diversification and organic growth strategy, stating: “With this important strategic step, FAM is able to further support our key customers located in North America, both for new builds and service.” “With[…]

Caterpillar has announced an additional 1 billion tonnes of material hauled by autonomous trucks using Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling, surpassing the 3 billion tonnes milestone. This achievement is joined by an expansion of the types of commodities hauled autonomously across a growing number of Cat mining truck class sizes, as well as other brands of mining equipment. “Since surpassing[…]

Teck’s RACE21™ innovation-driven efficiency program covers many bases. On the autonomy side, the company is making major strides which was outlined in its recent Q1 2021 earnings call. Teck is somewhat unique in the industry in having deployed AHS at both coal and metallic operations and is using two different systems – at the Elkview[…]