Environment
The green economy: mining’s double-edged sword
The green economy poses both an opportunity and a threat to the mining industry. The…
Preparing the mining industry for a changing climate
How much carbon dioxide does the mining industry produce each year? How will climate change…
Cleaning up mine sites with carbon-negative bioremediation
Cemvita Factory’s Moji Karimi explains how biomimicry can be harnessed to treat mine waste and…
Creating a carbon-neutral mine site
How hydrogen fuel cells and other technologies are helping Anglo American to make its vision…
Climate change: making mining part of the solution
Carly Leonida asks: is the mining industry doing enough to tackle climate change?
Mine tailings: reprocess, recover & recycle
Why we’ll be hearing an awful lot more about the reprocessing of tailings from mining…
All change for climate change?
Will BHP’s new climate change initiative inspire other mining companies to follow suit? And will…
Mining without water
Reducing water usage is a key sustainability challenge for mining operations around the globe. Anglo…
Mine closure: the end or a new beginning?
Closure needn’t be the end of the story for a mine. With some careful planning,…
Genomics: digging into mining’s DNA
From exploration to bioleaching and mine tailings remediation, genomics has found applications across the mine…
“Mining is the most basic of all human endeavours and yet we live in a world where people don’t know where things come from”