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The Angas zinc mine, just outside Adelaide and currently under care and maintenance, is about to become the site of 5 MW advanced compressed air energy storage or A-CAES project which will provide synchronous inertia, load shifting and frequency regulation to the area's electrical grid.
News ID: 3657    Publish Date : 2019/02/17

Iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) revealed Friday that one of its massive driverless trucks collided with another at one of its Western Australia mines earlier this week. There were no injuries.
News ID: 3647    Publish Date : 2019/02/16

Shares in Australia 's Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) jumped Tuesday after it said that drilling results from its Pogo gold mine in Alaska pointed to a significant increase in resources and a substantial maiden reserve.
News ID: 3611    Publish Date : 2019/02/12

Aconference was held at Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture in cooperation with Australia n Trade and Investment Commission and Iran- Australia Chamber of Commerce for exploring ways of promoting bilateral economic relations.
News ID: 3522    Publish Date : 2019/02/02

Tehran and Canberra are determined to further increase industrial cooperation as representatives from the two countries signed an agreement in Tehran.
News ID: 3444    Publish Date : 2019/01/27

Perth-based lithium producer Pilbara Minerals is on track with ramping up the first stage of its Pilgangoora project in Western Australia after producing 47,859t of 6pc spodumene concentrate and 56,634 lbs of tantalum concentrate in October-December, its first quarter of production.
News ID: 3399    Publish Date : 2019/01/25

A report issued by the Amsterdam-based Responsible Mining Foundation reveals that many Toronto-listed junior and mid-tier mining companies do not properly disclose environmental, social and governance information related to their mine sites in Australia , Burkina Faso, Canada, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mexico, Kyrgyz Republic, and Suriname.
News ID: 3382    Publish Date : 2019/01/23

Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) is reviewing “all funding options” to pay for the full closure and rehabilitating of its Ranger uranium mine, after studies showed the cost would be almost A$300 million (about $213m) higher than previous estimates.
News ID: 3242    Publish Date : 2019/01/13

Japan's JFE Steel has agreed to a first-quarter 2019 contract price of $131/t fob Australia for semi-soft coking coal with Indonesian producer Adaro and Australia n mining firm Stanmore Coal.
News ID: 3223    Publish Date : 2019/01/10

Canada’s Cobalt 27 Capital (TSXV: KBLT)(OTCQX: CBLLF)(FRA: 27O) is tapping into the lithium sector by acquiring a royalty of 1.5% of gross revenues and A$2 per tonne of ore mined at the Mount Marion lithium project in Western Australia , the latest in a series of major deals the company has announced in less than a year.
News ID: 3199    Publish Date : 2019/01/08

Australia n Ambassador to Iran Ian Biggs underlined the need for using the potentials and capacities existing for the further expansion of ties and cooperation between Tehran and Canberra.
News ID: 3176    Publish Date : 2019/01/06

Australia 's journey to the top of the world's LNG exporters is expected to be brief, as Qatar and the US boost export capacity and amid the prospect of more gas going to the domestic market over the next decade.
News ID: 3102    Publish Date : 2018/12/28

China's imposition of tariffs on US LNG imports has seen fewer US cargoes head to China in recent months. But the tariffs have not diminished the longer-term appetite for the ultra-cooled fuel even though recent trade numbers suggest otherwise.
News ID: 3094    Publish Date : 2018/12/27

Australia ’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has locked in 100 million rand (about $7m) in development funding from South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) for its 70%-owned Mothae diamond plant, in Lesotho.
News ID: 3035    Publish Date : 2018/12/22

Australia ’s largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) has upped its holdings in Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG), which is developing the Cascabel copper-gold project in the country’s north.
News ID: 2985    Publish Date : 2018/12/19

Australia overtook Qatar as the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas for the first time in November, data from Refinitiv Eikon, one of the world's largest providers of financial market data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries, showed on Monday,
News ID: 2881    Publish Date : 2018/12/11

Next year augurs well for the Australia n coal sector. This applies to both thermal coal (used in electricity production) and metallurgical coal (used in steel production).
News ID: 2641    Publish Date : 2018/11/17

Joint-venture partners Tawana Resources and Alliance Minerals Assets have started offtake discussions for the increased lithium concentrate that they expect to come from their Bald Hill mine in Western Australia .
News ID: 2628    Publish Date : 2018/11/16

Australia 's Queensland state is set to unveil proposed resource regulations next week that will require miners to pay into an "insurance fund" for the remediation of old mines.
News ID: 2552    Publish Date : 2018/11/09

Australia -based metals developer Core Exploration has increased the size of its Finniss lithium project in the Northern Territory (NT) to 5mn t grading 1.5pc lithium oxide, confirming its status as one of Australia 's highest grade undeveloped lithium projects.
News ID: 2513    Publish Date : 2018/11/06