Sandvik has been chosen to provide a fleet of 19 battery-electric vehicles to Rana Gruber's iron ore mine operations in northern Norway. The order, valued at around SEK 370 million (US$36 million), includes trucks, loaders, drills, on-site service support, and batteries. Deliveries are expected to start in the first quarter of 2023 and continue through 2024. Read More
Savannah Resources, a company aiming to build the largest lithium mine in western Europe in Portugal, has announced it has found a way to eliminate the project's direct emissions (Scope 1) by using battery electric mining equipment. The company also stated that indirect emissions (Scope 2) could be lowered by 54% due to a potential reduction Read More
Harmony Gold, South Africa's largest gold miner, is exploring options to reduce its dependence on state utility Eskom, which relies on coal-fired power plants that often break down, putting pressure on the miner to find alternative energy sources. Harmony is therefore considering using hydrogen and natural gas to generate power for some of its mines. The Read More
Seriti Resources, a South African coal mining company, is building the country's largest wind farm through its subsidiary Seriti Green at an estimated cost of 4 billion rand ($236 million). The 155 MW wind farm will be located in Mpumalanga and begin operating in 2025, with the electricity generated being used to power the nearby coal Read More
Equinox Gold, a Canadian mining company, plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2030, according to its president and CEO Greg Smith. Smith unveiled the company’s climate action report, which commits to a target of reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 25% by 2030 compared to "business-as-usual" forecast GHG emissions Read More
Australian company 5B has secured its largest project so far, serving as the technology provider for the solar component of a 95 MW hybrid microgrid for Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley Lithium mine in Australia. The microgrid, being developed by Zenith Energy, will consist of five wind turbines (30 MW), 16 MW of solar, a 17 MW/19 Read More
Energy analyst Geoff Eldridge from Global Power Energy observed that Australia's main grid saw record-breaking output from renewables and wind and solar energy on February 11th. At 1.55 pm (AEST), the renewables output reached 20,138.5 MW, surpassing the previous peak by over 731 MW. Additionally, the output of wind and solar energy (variable renewables) touched 19,573.9 Read More
Vast Solar, an Australian developer of solar thermal, or concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, has received funding of $65 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for its 30MW/ 288MWh reference plant, VS1, in Port Augusta, South Australia. This utility-scale CSP project, the first of its kind, will anchor Vast Solar's green technology manufacturing activities Read More
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the country's ongoing electricity crisis has had a significant and damaging impact on the mining industry, a crucial sector of the economy. He made the statement while speaking at the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference, where the Minerals Council of South Africa estimated that total mining volumes Read More
Eskom, the South African state-owned utility and the world's largest sulfur dioxide (SO2) emitter, is seeking approval to release more of the pollutant linked to health issues such as heart attacks and asthma. The company has requested environmental clearance to bypass the flue-gas desulphurization (FGD) unit that removes SO2 from emissions at its Kusile coal-fired power Read More
