The Government of India is planning to issue mining licences through auctions in order to improve transparency in mineral resources allocation. The government is seeking to amend an existing 57-year-old act and keep the draft amendments in the...
Adani Enterprises $7bn coal mine, rail and port project in Queensland, Australia, has received a loan of up to $1bn from the State Bank of India (SBI), coinciding with the high-profile visit of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. ...
Rio Tinto and Sinosteel have signed a heads of agreement to advance negotiations for a second extension to the Channar Mining iron ore joint venture (JV) in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The original Channar JV, which was signed...
Erdene Resource Development has begun resource definition drilling programme at its wholly owned Altan Nar gold-polymetallic project in the Tien Shan Gold Belt of south-west Mongolia. The drill programme aims to establish a near-surface, National Instrument (NI) 43-101-compliant...
South Africa’s mining output has tremendously grown by a notable 5.3 percent this year. This has been boosted by platinum producer’s gradual return to productivity, after a 5-month work-stoppage in the first half of the year forced...
The South Australian Government is planning to increase the value of mineral and energy resource production to $10bn a year by 2017, creating 5,000 new jobs. The government unveiled a resource production record of $7.5bn in 2013 to...
China has declared the deaths of 21 miners who had been trapped inside the collapsed Dongfang mine in Huainan City. Confirmation has come two and half months after the accident ocurred in the eastern part of the country,...
