Mining giant BHP has inked a two-year partnership agreement with Chinese automotive think tank, Automotive Data of China (ADC) to support its research on the future electrification of transport in China.
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has welcomed a call by the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth for the need to diversify Australia’s trade base to reduce reliance on any one market.
South Africa has an opportunity to win back its lost share of the global vanadium market, which at one stage stood at 25%-plus, says Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo.
According to the statistics released by ISSF on March 15, the global stainless steel production in 2020 decreased by 2.5% to 50.892 million tons from 52.218 million tons in 2019.
A long-established emphasis on worker safety in the mining industry has helped it to deal with the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and allowed companies to deduce how to improve those processes even further.