While rare earth elements are “essential ingredients for our modern lives,” up to 82% of rare earth elements are imported from other countries, notes Aaron Noble, Virginia Tech professor and head of the Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering and interim head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Full story.
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Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals has resumed operations in Snow Lake following the decision by the Manitoba Wildfire Service and the Town of Snow Lake to lift the mandatory wildfire evacuation order. Full story.
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Equinox Gold has provided an update on its cornerstone Canadian mining operations: the Valentine gold mine in Newfoundland & Labrador and the Greenstone gold mine in northern Ontario. Read more.
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RPMGlobal has officially launched AMT 9, a major new release of its flagship asset maintenance platform, designed to help miners, contractors, and heavy equipment manufacturers drive better maintenance outcomes. Full story.
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A new research report by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in partnership with Fortescue highlights the urgent need for Australia to reduce reliance on diesel in mining, road freight, agriculture, fisheries and forestry. “There is an urgent need to decarbonise Australia’s most emissions-intensive sectors,” Dr. Kylie Walker, ASTE chief executive, said. “By encouraging the application of…
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Caterpillar, its Utah dealer Wheeler Machinery Co., and Joule Capital Partners announced an agreement to power the latter’s High Performance Compute Data Center Campus in Utah. The initiative will provide four gigawatts of total energy to the center of the Intermountain West. Powered by a fleet of Caterpillar’s latest G3520K generator sets and support equipment, the distributed generation system produces…
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The National Mining Association (NMA) and the Essential Minerals Association (EMA) both applauded the release of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) draft revised critical minerals list, which now includes copper, lead, potash, rhenium, silicon and silver. Full story.
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Vox Royalty Corp., a returns-focused mining royalty company, has executed a binding agreement to acquire an iron ore royalty over Wyloo North project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, currently operated by Fortescue Metals Group, from an Australian company for A$1.5 million. The royalty is a 1.5% Gross Revenue Royalty payable on the first 15 million tonnes of iron…
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Rio Tinto said an employee of a contracting company has died following an incident at the SimFer mine site in Nzérékoré, Guinea, on August 22. “We extend our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues impacted by this tragic event as well as the wider community. We will offer all the support we can at this very difficult time…
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has set up a new mineral industry agency that will oversee the development of rare earths and radioactive materials, reported Reuters. “This agency will manage the strategic materials industry that relates to the defence industry, because strategic materials are quite important for the sovereignty of the nation, as well as important for the improvement of our…
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