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Ash from largest coal-fired power plant in DR releasing toxic heavy metals – report

Scientists say coal ash from the Punta Catalina power plant revealed high concentrations of arsenic, selenium and other potentially harmful heavy metals.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 6, 2021 | 6:11 am

Engie to build wind farm to supply Anglo American’s Quellaveco project in Peru

Construction of the 260MW Punta Lomitas wind park is expected…

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

Copper may be the key to turn CO2 into fuel

Germany-based researchers optimized copper catalysts for the conversion of carbon…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | April 4, 2021 | 8:00 am

Cemin’s Pullalli gold-silver operation in Chile to use 100% renewable energy

Chile’s Cemin Holding Minero hired France’s Engie to provide 1.48…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | April 4, 2021 | 7:08 am

India delays anti-pollution rules for coal power plants again

Coal plants located close to populated cities will now have…

Bloomberg News | April 4, 2021 | 6:29 am

China’s top coke producer to curb output in pollution war

Shanxi Coking will trim around 900,000 tonnes of coke and 360,000 tonnes of chemicals from production during the coming winter months.

Reuters | October 11, 2017 | 2:00 am

Elliott tours BHP investors in renewed push for radical shake-up – sources

Representatives from Elliott have in the last month met with major BHP investors based in London, South Africa and Australia to lay out the activist fund's arguments for an overhaul of the miner.

Reuters | October 10, 2017 | 7:08 am

Mercury from the northern hemisphere reaches Australia

By tracing the air backwards in time, the scientists found that high-mercury air travelled over the Indonesian archipelago before arriving in Australia.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 12:04 pm

Argentinian senator expresses opposition to Canadian miner’s uranium exploration

Magdalena Odarda says Blue Sky Uranium's exploration is taking place at sites of paleontological significance.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 9:34 am

Sherritt International fined $1 million for coal mine spills in Canada

Sherritt pleaded guilty in the Provincial Court of Alberta to three counts of contravening the Fisheries Act.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | October 9, 2017 | 8:27 am

New program in Queensland aims to attract 3,000 new mining jobs

The Queensland Government is getting behind a pilot program that, together with an industry group, is hoping to bring thousands of mining equipment and services positions to the Bowen Basin within the next decade.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 5:14 pm

Chinese companies to build 700 coal plants in and outside China

Of all the new coal generation expected to go online over the next decade, Chinese companies will build nearly half of it.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 4:35 pm

Australians protest Carmichael coal mine in ‘national day of action’

Australians opposed to the Adani Group's Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland expressed their displeasure at the project on Saturday.

Andrew Topf | October 8, 2017 | 3:49 pm

In the heart of China’s coal country, a city bans most coal

The ban took effect from Sunday and restricts most companies and individuals from selling, transporting or burning coal in the urban area of Taiyuan.

Reuters | October 6, 2017 | 5:01 am

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