China spreads the love to all sources of energy, even hated coal
China mines and burns about half the world’s coal, so it can’t totally ditch it.
China mines and burns about half the world’s coal, so it can’t totally ditch it.
Company made a strategic decision in 2017 to exit coal and focus on growth in iron ore, copper and its aluminum division.
Constitutional Court has requested additional information.
Gold Fields Ltd.’s local unit to dismiss more than 2,000 staff as it starts the process of hiring a contractor to operate its biggest mine.
The revival of resource nationalism policies tend to correlate with commodity prices – increasing during both commodity supercycles and commodity downturns. However, the policies of resource nationalism implemented by Tanzania and South Africa in 2017 appear to be exceptions to the general trend as global commodity prices are in neither a supercycle nor a downturn. This suggests that the reforms introduced by the Tanzanian and South African governments were caused by factors other than a pure drive to maximising socio-economic benefits. The legislative measures adopted by Tanzania in July 2017 result from a sense of mistrust between the government and mining companies, and the government’s drive to secure greater benefits for the country. In South Africa, increased resource nationalist measures are seen in Mining Charter III (June 2017) which like its predecessors was published to address the racial inequality created by the country’s Apartheid past.
Over the past three years, NORCAT has engaged multiple stakeholders in the global mining industry to better understand the future of work and learning and how technology will support training and development to ensure mine workers are both safe and productive while on the job. The launch will feature NORCAT’s augmented reality (AR) firefighting training simulator and a demonstration of NORCAT’s virtual reality (VR) induction training program for both surface and underground mining operations.
Environmental assessments already underway will continue under the current process.
Gold mining in Africa has a bad rap — particularly when it comes to women. But in Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, the victimization lens does great injustice to the hundreds of women mining alongside men.
They say diamonds have become a curse instead of a blessing for those living in the Mutare West region.
The Fiji government is very much open to investment by foreign companies; it wants to bring more jobs into the mining industry