Energy Top Stories

Coal use seen peaking next year as India, China determine future

Coal power generation increased in each of the past two years in China, India and Europe.

Bloomberg News | March 20, 2023 | 6:18 am

Hydrogen-based thermal power produced using aluminum scrap

Found Energy produced 20 kW of continuous, hydrogen-based thermal power…

Staff Writer | March 17, 2023 | 5:48 am

Newmont to study direct air carbon capture in its tailings

The rapid electrochemical mineralization to form dolomite (REMineD) method will…

Henry Lazenby | March 16, 2023 | 2:53 pm

Germany in talks with coal giant to end mining eight years early

Germany wants to phase out coal in 2030. Now it…

Bloomberg News | March 16, 2023 | 12:22 pm

Peninsula Energy delays Wyoming uranium project restart, shares plunge

Lance is one of the largest uranium projects in the…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 16, 2023 | 9:28 am

Coal price: Asia’s near-term climate goals outweigh long-term pledges

In some ways, the richer nations of the developed world can speed up the end of coal in Asia, writes Clyde Russell.

Reuters | November 4, 2021 | 8:13 am

New cell efficiently converts waste heat to energy

A new hybrid thermoelectrochemical-concentration cell shows promise in utilizing waste heat to generate electricity.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 4, 2021 | 6:06 am

UN at COP26: “Enough of mining…we are digging our own graves”

It did not take long for COP26 to turn into a farce with UN Secretary General António Guterres pleading with the gathered highnesses and excellencies to declare enough is enough.

Frik Els | November 2, 2021 | 11:58 am

New contactless mechanism to monitor phosphates, pH enhances safety of nuclear fuel recycling

Two PNNL interns developed a contactless technique to better measure, in real-time, the acidity of highly radioactive solutions.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 2, 2021 | 6:06 am

Canada to ban thermal coal exports by 2030

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also committed to impose a hard cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 2, 2021 | 3:51 am

Argentina, Fortescue unveil $8.4bn green hydrogen investment plan

Fortescue is looking at developing the project in the province of Río Negro with a view to producing green hydrogen on an industrial scale.

Reuters | November 1, 2021 | 2:30 pm

COP26 will be a colossal mining cop-out

New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation strategies.

Frik Els | October 28, 2021 | 3:18 pm