The Interview: Platypus Minerals managing director Tom Dukovcic
March 2015
JUNIOR explorer Platypus Minerals is focused on prospective copper-gold and base metals projects in the East Pilbara and Peru’s San Mateo mining district....
South32 buys $110m Arizona Mining stake
The Hermosa zinc-lead-silver project. Image: Arizona Mining.BY CAMERON DRUMMONDSOUTH32 will pay $C110 million ($107m) for a 15 per cent stake...
Rio partners with Tanzania miner
The JV will encompass the company’s southern tenements in Tanzania including Miteja, Kiswere, Sudi and Mtwara.
Image: Strandline Resources.BY ELIZABETH FABRIRIO Tinto has entered an...
WA continues co-funded drilling initiative
The government co-funding initiative has been going since 2009. Image: Asia Iron.By Cameron Drummond42 PROJECTS across WA will...
Cobalt on a tear
Workers at the Kamoto underground mine in the Congo. Image: Katanga Mining.By Cameron DrummondCOBALT – one of...
Ruins of an island coal mine
By Reuben Adams5 November, 2015Abandoned by its coal-mining residents in the 1970s to be reclaimed by nature, the eerie ghost island of Hashima serves...
Glencore reopens Integra coal mine
Glencore has scrambled to boost its Australian coal production on the back of soaring coal prices this year. Image: Duncan Harris.
By Cameron DrummondMINING giant...
Demand for flying doctors continues to soar
SPANNING more than 7 million square kilometres, Australia is famous for its remoteness: 18 per cent of the country is classified as arid desert,...
Ancient legacy faces revival
THE island of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is said to have given copper its Classical Latin name. The phrase ‘aes Cyprium’ roughly...
The legend of the Eureka Stockade
AS dawn approached on the Ballarat goldfields on Sunday December 3, 1854, a makeshift stockade, hastily built by diggers at Eureka, was overrun by...