Bioleaching unlocks revenue from low-grade ores, but the cost-effective copper extraction process is struggling to get off ...
BASF has formed a partnership with the US firm Moleaer to develop a technology that would enable mining companies to increase their recovery of copper from ore. BASF plans to combine its LixTRA metal ...
Clean energy technologies are colliding with a hard geological limit: the world needs far more copper, lithium, manganese and rare earth elements than conventional mines are currently delivering. At ...
A mine shaft about 10 times as deep as Adelaide’s tallest building is being developed in a $1bn-plus expansion of BHP’s Prominent Hill copper mine, in the state’s far north.