BP and Rio Tinto have formed a new jointly-owned company, Hydrogen Energy, which will develop decarbonized energy projects around the world. The venture will initially focus on hydrogen-fuelled power generation, using fossil fuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to produce new large-scale supplies of clean electricity.
Decarbonized energy projects are based on the conversion […]

The strong global demand for uranium as a power plant fuel is set to continue, with no imminent signs to cause any weakening in the current high price, according to the Chairman of Crossland Uranium Mines, Bob Cleary. Cleary - a former Chief Executive of Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) and operations manager of the Ranger uranium […]

On May 4, Major Drilling announced that P.T. Pontil Indonesia, a wholly owned subsidiary, had been awarded a three-year extension to its existing contract to supply surface and underground exploration drilling at P.T. Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg mine, the world’s lrgest gold mine, in the Province of West Papua.
PT Pontil’s existing service contract was due […]

Primary Metals has engaged Enernova - Novas Energias, a subsidiary of Electricidad de Portugal (EDP), the sole transmitter and largest producer and distributor of electricity in Portugal, to commence construction of eolic wind energy generators on Primary Metal’s Panasqueira tungsten mine in central Portugal. Construction is planned to start […]

The Bauma exhibition in Munich in late April went down well with exhibitors and visitors alike. Of the latter there were estimated to be over 500,000! This was the second time the event had been expanded to include a specific mining section, though mining visitors have always been an important […]

Candente Resource Corp’s President and CEO, Joanne Freeze, was awarded a Mining Entrepreneurs 2001-2006 Gold Medal and Honour Diploma in Peru for her outstanding work in mining development within the country. The award was granted by Intercade (Inter-American Institute of Training and Development - Mining Sector) and the UNP (National […]