In an effort to quantify the criticality of the 62 metals on the Period Table of Elements, a group of Yale researchers has published a new paper providing key insights into how extracting the metals...
Category - Exploration
A new kilometre long tunnel recently completed at Grosvenor mine, near Moranbah is believed to be a first for the Queensland coal mining industry. A Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) made the breakthrough...
Western Australia’s Mines Minister has revelled in the news that his state’s uranium mining sector will no longer face competition from Queensland, after a ban on uranium mining in the...
Uranium mining will again be banned in Queensland just three years after the decades-long prohibition was overturned by the Newman Government. According to The Courier Mail, the state’s new Mines...
According to a report by the ABC, about a third of geologists are underemployed or unemployed, due to a lack of exploration and consistently low commodity prices. The Australian Institute of...
Two companies in the U.S. have pledged to launch a series of spacecraft and exploratory satellites to investigate the possibility of mining natural resources from asteroids – as early as 2016. One of...
Resolve Coal has acquired more land, closer to the Carmichael mine project, for its planned $1.2 billion Hyde Park Coal Project (HPCP) in the Galilee Basin. Principal Geologist, Gordon Saul, said...
2015 will be the UN International’s Year of Soil, and with it comes the timely release of an online tool that can help miners, farmers and developers identify soil types. Over the weekend...
In a worrying trend, mineral exploration expenditure in Queensland fell 10.9 per cent (or -$10.7m) in the September quarter 2014, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of...
A huge reserve of gas has been discovered in the Cooper Basin of central Australia, according to exploration company, Beach Energy. 600 metres of “gas-soaked sandstone” has apparently...
Stanmore Coal has secured a second round of exploration funding for their Belview coking coal project east of Blackwater. The $1.5 million in additional exploration investment support comes from...
With the Queensland Exploration Council’s Exploration Scorecard now available for viewing online, a variety of both positive and negative results have come to light. As it’s stated in the...
