Special reports

According to GlobalData, demand for lithium is expected to rise from a forecasted 47 300 t in 2020 to 117 400 t in 2024.

Adams Baker and Marc Elliot, Eaton, provide a Q&A on the advantages of witness testing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

EXANTE's senior analyst, Victor Argonov, has said that the Gold price could double in the next 3 years.

Ames Construction has improved the safety and accuracy of its surveying at a copper mining site in Arizona with senseFly’s fixed-wing drones.

K2fly has said that the executive fallout from the Juukan cave disaster in the Pilbara of Western Australia is the turning point in the mining industry’s ongoing battle to maintain social licence.

The London Metal Exchange has recently issued a discussion paper on plans to drive forward its sustainability agenda.

Hearing the traditional German miners’ greeting ‘Glückauf’ (roughly equivalent to Godspeed or simply good luck) will soon be a thing of the past.

Jaume Cazorla Milla, Microdrones, UAE, provides an inside look at the workflow for drone-based LiDAR at a coal mine.

The World Gold Council has published a report entitled ‘Gold Mining’s Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals’.

Jaume Cazorla Milla, Microdrones, UAE, provides an inside look at the workflow for drone-based LiDAR at a coal mine.

According to SRK Consulting, the dire state of the global economy may be prompting a considerable number of preliminary economic assessments being published.

New Leaf Technologies is witnessing growing interest among large mining companies to move away from traditional training in favour of e-learning programmes.

World Gold Council data has shown that gold ETFs saw inflows for the ninth consecutive month in August, albeit at the slowest pace for 2020.

Ship loaders of BEUMER Group handle ships quickly – without loss of material and with minimal dust emissions.

October 13th marks a decade since the end of the longest underground entrapment in history. A cave-in at the San Jose copper-gold mine in Copiapó left 33 miners trapped 2300 ft below ground, for 69 days.