Australian miners power ahead with equipment electrification
Mining companies rely heavily on fossil fuels to power their operations, a major contributor to operational costs as well as…
Mining
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Navigating net zero: can miners meet their emission reduction targets?
With climate change on everyone’s mind, emission reduction targets have become a major focus of every sector, but especially within…
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Pentagon looks to AI to predict prices of critical minerals
The Pentagon has unveiled plans to develop a new AI-driven programme, known as the ‘Open Price Exploration for National Security’…
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Slow EV sales are proving problematic for Australia’s lithium miners
Lithium – a battery mineral essential to the clean energy transition – experienced a price plummet of 80% in 2023,…
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The water crisis threatens the energy transition – CDP
Companies involved in the global energy transition are highly exposed to water security risks and are already seeing some of…
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Signal: “worst environmental disaster” in metal mining was not an accident
Mexico’s Environment Minister Maria Luisa Albores said on 12 October that the toxic oil spill of August 2014 – “the…
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Argentina’s copper export plans opposed by environmentalists
In August, Argentina’s presidential primary elections gave the lead to far-right and libertarian candidate Javier Milei, who wants to install…
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Signal: half a million coal miners will lose jobs by 2035
A new report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) warns that 414,200 coal mining jobs will be lost by 2035, as…
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Russia-Ukraine war risks hampering transition to global low-carbon economy
Russia’s invasion and continued occupation of Ukraine could disrupt efforts to transition the world to a low-carbon economy due to…
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Why the world finds itself in a Greenland ‘gold rush’
Ice loss from Greenland hit a new record this year. The latest report from the European Space Agency shows that…
