The mining industry is still recalibrating to a set of strong headwinds after the commodity boom peaked in 2011. From volatile market conditions to resource scarcity and environmental mandates, the challenges facing the mining industry has forced miners to re-think the way they operate. In this article, we look at some of the major dilemmas the industry is grappling with.
In this 3-part blog series, we discuss some of the digital innovations in mining that, over the next decade, have the potential to revolutionize operations and deliver exceptional shareholder, customer and environmental value.
Nationalistic policies aimed at monopolizing resources are nothing new in the international trade arena. A regular candidate, the Chinese government, has joined this list (again) by continuing to tighten its grip on the countries relatively abundant supply of rare earth metals.
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British scientists have revealed evidence that a mining company drilling for gas was responsible for unleashing a mud volcano in Indonesia which has killed...
The Dongria Kondh tribe who live in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa do not normally go to the top of the bauxite-rich slopes. The hilltop is considered sacred and they leave it undisturbed. But recently, the Dongria Kondh set aside custom and gathered in droves at the top of Niyamgiri...
BP has released an incredible new underwater video showing oil and gas erupting under pressure in large, dark clouds from safety device on the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) is set to become the world's first gold mining company to sell Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), the financial securities used to trade carbon emissions...
The Doe Run Co. says it will clean up about 240 acres of former mining land in the western part of Jasper County. About 80 acres of the land is the former Snapp Mine north of Joplin. The other two sites are...
Nguyen Tien Phuong, deputy director of Vang Danh Coal Mining Company, says his family doesn't dare drink even boiled tap water. He admits that his company has been blatantly discharging untreated wastewater directly into...