Iron Ore • Jan 31, 2022
China’s total iron ore imports from Australia
In China's total iron ore imports, Australian iron ore will fall below 60 percent in 2022. Due to weather disruptions and labor shortage worries, Australian iron…
Mo Shine
Mo Shine covers the geopolitics, logistics and diplomacy of critical-mineral extraction in the Global South, with a focus on how African statecraft shapes what investors and operators can actually build. He spent more than a decade in newspaper journalism, as sub-editor and executive editor, and has worked with Skillings since 2009. His current work tracks the Lobito Corridor and other Western-backed rail routes, and what they change for working capital, regional diplomacy and operator resilience across the Central African Copperbelt.
Gold • Jan 25, 2022
In August 2015, EPA-led contractor team
The U.S. government and a gold mining firm have struck an agreement to end a long-time disagreement over who is liable for the continuing cleaning of…
Battery Metals • Jan 21, 2022
Lithium Drilling Project: US Energy Independence
With this attempt, geothermal energy production will be enhanced by obtaining lithium from the brine. Lithium is produced chiefly in China, but it is exported to…
Coal • Jan 20, 2022
Queensland’s Mining and Energy Union
According to the Mining and Energy Union, as the highly contagious Omicron variety spreads throughout the Queensland coal industry, mining companies have fallen behind on Covid-19…
Coal • Jan 20, 2022
Chinese government revealed that the country’s
As the government struggled with an energy crisis, coal output in China allegedly hit historic highs last year.
Iron Ore • Jan 19, 2022
Labor Shortages And Delays
The Gudai-Darri project's new greenfields mine has been delayed, resulting in a somewhat weaker-than-expected iron ore shipping prediction from Rio Tinto on Tuesday. According to a…
Asia Pacific • Jan 19, 2022
Queensland Unions Take BHP to Fair Work
A fresh legal challenge against BHP's vaccine requirement has been initiated because it violates employees' rights to privacy. This follows the company's discovery of miners falsifying…
Energy Transition • Jan 18, 2022
Operational and senior management depend on
The leaders in these industries are showcasing the advantages of the new paradigm of lower costs, greater production rates, and strict adherence to ESG (Environment, Social,…
Iron Ore • Jan 18, 2022
Rio Tinto: cut its full-year iron ore export
Permanent border restrictions imposed due to the current coronavirus outbreak in Western Australia, the world's largest iron ore and lithium mining area, have limited the movement…
Investment & Project Finance • Jan 17, 2022
SIDF: drilling, mining activities, and
CEO Ibrahim Almojel highlighted that the total amount of loans sanctioned by the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) for the mining industry had topped SR4.8 billion…
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