MINE Archive

Issue 144 | September 2024
In this issue: Regulating mining in space, exploring copper supply and demand, tapping unconventional resources for critical minerals, the diamond market, and more.

Issue 142 | July 2024
In this issue: Innovation in ore processing, the environmental benefits of autonomous underground equipment, remote prospecting with hyperspectral imaging, and more.

Issue 140 | May 2024
In this issue: Progress on the path to net zero, digital innovation for GETs, Angola looks beyond diamonds, and more.

Issue 138| March 2024
In this issue: Investors act on tailings safety, Canada’s sustainable mining push, how China is shaping the future of coal, and more.

Issue 136| January 2024
In this issue: China strengthens its dominance of the lithium market, 2023 in data, the hidden carbon costs of automation, how COP28 put a spotlight on coal phase-out, and more.

Issue 134 | November 2023
In this issue: Saudi Arabia moves into minerals, and awaiting Argentina’s mining future.

Issue 132 | September 2023
In this issue: Comprehensive auditing, eliminating cyanide, and drilling that really hits the spot.

Issue 130 | July 2023
In this issue: Metaverse, EVs, AI and building better relationships with indigenous peoples.

Issue 128 | May 2023
In this issue: New blasting technology, the UK’s role in rare earths and the prospect of green steel.

Issue 126 | March 2023
In this issue: Rescuing stranded vehicles, retraining a generation of miners and communicating better underground.

Issue 124 | January 2023
In this issue: The troubled waters of deep-sea mining, new mineral sources for Europe, and finding funding for Africa.

Issue 122 | November 2022
In this issue:The runoff election in Brazil, lithium in the UK and an ownership dispute in Mozambique.

Issue 120 | September 2022
In this issue: A $13tn gold deposit, Russian mining mergers and the impacts of mining on communities.

Issue 118 | July 2022
In this issue: an international lawsuit, Europe’s critical metals supply gap and nickel mining in the Philippines.

Issue 116 | May 2022
The copper supply chain, effective tailings management and the dream of responsible mining.

Issue 114 | March 2022
Diversifying rare earths, South African sand mining, and checking in with Deloitte’s Covid-19 predictions.

Issue 112 | January 2022
South Africa’s mining charter, “phasing down” coal and what the energy transition could mean for metals.

Issue 110 | November 2021
The role of Scope 3 emissions, artisanal mining in Kenya and the future of Afghan mining.

Issue 108 | September 2021
The increasing popularity of synthetic diamonds, can satellite imaging stop tailings dam failures, Petra Diamonds’ human rights abuse case, and more.

Issue 106 | July 2021
A Five Eyes alliance for critical minerals, challenges for women in artisanal mining, mining’s impact on human rights, and more.

Issue 105 | June 2021
Space mining geopolitics, the UN’s push for better tailings management, the bonds between mining and terrorism, and more.

Issue 103 | April 2021
China looks further afield for iron ore, tracing mining’s carbon emissions with blockchain, existential challenges for the mining industry, and more.

Issue 101 | February 2021
The damage of Brazil’s mineral exploration expansion, lithium mining’s impact on water scarcity, biomining as the future of resource extraction in space, and more.

Yearbook 2020
The biggest mining stories from across the past year.

Issue 98 | November 2020
A global standard for tailings management, net-zero lithium in Cornwall, mining geopolitics in the Arctic Circle, and more.

Issue 96 | September 2020
India opens coal to commercial auction, Canada and the US’s critical minerals pipeline, creating the Amazon of digital mining, and more.

Issue 94 | July 2020
Gold during the Covid-19 pandemic, Canadian miners and international law breaches, deadlock at New Zealand’s NZ$1bn sand mining project, and more.

Issue 92 | May 2020
Rhodium trades as the world’s most expensive mineral, Covid-19’s impact on the mining sector, Rio Tinto and Vale compete for the iron ore top spot, and more.

Issue 90 | March 2020
Bolivia’s lithium flats may be opening to foreign investment, the ICA’s new standard for sustainable copper production, Zimbabwe’s ‘use it or lose it’ policy, and more.

Issue 88 | January 2020
The uncertain future of lithium mining, Japan’s mercurial mining industry, marine mining lessons learned from Namibia, cleaning up nickel mining, and more.

Issue 87 | December 2019
Mining’s impact on the Amazon, the UK’s dependancy on imported critical minerals, Poland’s continuing coal mining frenzy, preparing the supply chain for a world of automation, and more.

Issue 85 | October 2019
A look at the impact international relations have on mining, the deepsea mining debate, how behavioural science can improve safety, and more.

Issue 83 | August 2019
Deepsea mining and technologies being developed for it, turning around Mexico’s mining meltdown, a look at the history of the LME, and more.

Issue 81 | June 2019
The ins and outs of responsible financing, learning from the Queensland derailment, ABB’s mine optimisation solution, and more.

Issue 79 | April 2019
Alternative financing options for junior mining companies, the Goldcorp-Newmont-Barrick mega deal, the mining industry’s biggest challenge of 2019, tailings dam safety in the spotlight, and more.

Issue 77 | February 2019
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the global demand for copper, how Nornickel is embracing digital technologies, the main objectives of the Innovation for Cleaner Safer Vehicles programme, and more.

Issue 76 | January 2019
The final shape of South Africa’s mining charter, scrapping traceability fees in Rwanda, the Barrick-Randgold mega merger, the problem with developing uranium projects, using microwave energy in mineral extraction, and more.

Issue 75 | December 2018
Mining for diamonds on the sea floor, opportunities for driverless vehicles, a closer look at the commodity antimony, creating real-time 3D visualisation for mines, the new Mandela mining precinct in South Africa, and more.

MINE Australia Issue 2 | October 2018
Junior mining companies leading the charge in Australia, Volvo’s plans to use 5G mobile technology in autonomous operations, how miners can protect wildlife, the problem of recruiting staff to operations, and more.

Issue 72 | September 2018
Preparing mining companies for cyberattacks, a pilot using 5G mobile technology for industrial applications, opening up North Korea’s mineral resources, critical minerals in the US, and more.

Issue 71 | August 2018
China’s copper import ban, Peru’s new president, the allure of Welsh gold, South African mine rehabilitation, after Samarco, lithium leaching, autonomous drilling, and more.

Issue 69 | June 2018
Exploring Russia, platinum in Zimbabwe, dealing with sexual misconduct, the gemstone market, Anglo American’s sustainability, Michelin buys into conveyors, and more

Issue 67 | April 2018
Underwater waste forms new deposits, tech dumps of secondary materials, evolution of mining machines, Canada’s sustainability, overhauling the DRC’s mining code, and more

Issue 65 | February 2018
Tapping the Grand Canyon, Chinese firms in Africa, the UK’s mining map, embracing the Internet of Things, optimising mine design, rhodium rides high, and more

Special Issue | Yearbook 2017
The biggest news stories, major projects, top performing commodities, breakthrough technologies of the past year, and more

Issue 62 | November 2017
Cyanide makes for clean gold, Grasberg mine’s struggles, China’s environmental tax, Cornish lithium, titanium in Greenland, cobalt batteries, and more

Issue 60 | September 2017
Boosting black ownership, corruption in Uganda, seafloor mining, automated drill rigs, real-time ore analysis, mine rescue response procedures, and more

Issue 58 | July 2017
China strikes gold record, the US coal comeback, mining in Mali, new mineral formations, a case for sand mining, the International Collegiate Mining Competition, and more

Issue 56 | May 2017
The amber industry trapped in tragedy, a $1m competition to disrupt mining, lithium in Cornwall, forgotten minerals, using drones for site surveys, the evolution of mining apps, and more

Issue 54 | March 2017
The mission to mine on Mars, a war on man-made diamonds, illegal mining in Pakistan, managing microbes at sites, new end-of-life technologies, analysing market risks, and more.

Issue 52 | January 2017
Raising capital in 2017, Iran’s market post-sanctions, the growth of Canadian junior miners, supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, CAT after Oberhelman’s departure, GE’s digital mine, and more.