UK-Australian resources firm BHP and its partner, Japanese trading house Mitsubishi, plan to spend $100mn on 34 autonomous trucks at their 4.5mn t/yr Daunia coking coal mine in the Bowen basin in Queensland, Australia.

US coking coal prices have been flat to slightly stronger early this week ahead of current third-quarter spot requirements in Europe closing.

Rio Tinto to close New Zealand aluminium smelter in 2021

New EU Clean Hydrogen Alliance to build 6 GW of electrolyzer capacity by 2024

Nornickel rejects $2.1 billion fuel spill charge

Dundee Precious stock rises on strong Q2 output

In copper country, they’re using the metal to fight virus

Ghanaian activists sue government to save forest from mine