China's largest coal producer Shenhua Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Rostec to develop coal deposits in Siberia and the Far East of Russia. Under the deal, the companies also plan to develop industrial and...
Ukraine has signed a deal with South Africa to purchase one million tonnes (Mt) of coal after the company's coal mines in the Donbass region were shutdown due to an on-going military conflict. Ukraine Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk...
Russia's Mechel Mining is planning to invest RUR2.9bn ($80.4m) on maintenance of its production facilities this year. The company will install new equipment for its facilities as part of its technical revamping programme. With the exception of...
UK-based Hangar8 Aviation expects private aviation in the mining and gas industries to rise as companies are looking to charter services to meet their complex travel needs. The growth will be driven by the demand for companies to...
ZEISS has launched automated mineralogy solution Mineralogic Mining, which can perform petrological analysis to quantify minerals in real-time. Mineralogic Mining is claimed to provide complete quantitative evaluation during mineral exploration, ore characterisation, process optimisation and tailings-control processes. ...
The Czech Republic Government may buy New World Resources' (NWR) black coal unit, OKD, in an effort to prevent thousands of redundancies. NWR announced last week that it would have to sell OKD in Czech and Karbonia in...
Four miners have been killed and two injured in an explosion that ripped through the Gai copper mine in the Orenburg Region in south-east Russia. The incident occurred when the miners were planting explosives in the pit to...
