Arrests and attacks: tracking China's illegal mining in African

China's massive metals industry can only maintain its size using imported minerals, frequently from limited suppliers. As part of its Belt and Road Initiative, the country has actively invested in mining assets in Africa and Latin America, and is beginning to engage in overseas refining and downstream facilities.. Many countries have welcomed this with open arms.

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Mining Technology Insights (2025 & Beyond) | StartUs …

Explore the top 10 emerging mining technology - plus three practical use cases & one promising startup for each. ... Collect geological samples at new mining sites and map underground deposits to provide data on the site's mineral concentration. This approach speeds up the exploration process, reduces costs, and prevents human intervention in ...

China to continue Canadian mining investments despite …

China currently holds a dominant position in the supply chains of these minerals. Speaking at the Resourcing Tomorrow Mining conference in London last year, Michal Meidan, director at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, said that China has "80– control of some processing supply chains" of critical minerals.

The latest Chinese mining news | Global Mining Review

China Mining Expo 2024 took place at Xi'an Airport Convention and Exhibition Center on 23 – 25 October 2024, focusing on a future shaped by the nation's new quality productivity forces advocate. ... opens new foundry in China Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:00 Group, the global mining technology leader, has officially opened its new ...

Cutting-edge technology rocks into mining industry

The moves are part of Huawei's broader push to build world-class smart mining solutions that integrate new-generation information technologies, such as 5G, WiFi-6, industrial …

Intelligent innovation fuels China's mining industry

During the three-day event, themed "Innovation promotes high-quality development of mining," a number of new technologies and mining equipment were showcased. In addition …

Rio Tinto to trial Chinese battery swapping …

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) is teaming up with China's State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to test the use of battery swap electric haul truck technology at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia.

New mining frontiers: from the ocean floor to space

The future of mining is rapidly evolving, and new frontiers are opening such as deep-sea mining and extra-terrestrial resource exploration. Deep-sea mining: extracting resources from the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining, …

China leads in deploying battery-powered trucks

Of the 78 tracked in China, 40 are deployed at Fushan mine, which is located in She County and owned by Shandong Honghe Baili Mining. The site uses Yutong YTK90E autonomous electric battery-powered trucks, with a load …

The false monopoly: China and the rare earths trade

According to estimates, China plays host to around a third of the world's proven rare earth reserves. Due to the country's strategic and brilliantly prescient focus on developing its rare earth mining and processing capacity in the 1980s, today it controls around 85-95% of the global supply of rare earths, with 70% of the world's light rare earths coming from a single …

China eyes bolstering mining across Tibet

Before the invasion of Tibet by the People's Republic of China (PRC), mining was rarely conducted in that region. Within the Tibetan cultural sphere, mining and ground disturbance are often said to remove "the bcud [nutrition or essence] of the earth, of which minerals are [a] primary form." During the Cultural Revolutions, Tibetan people were sent to Jang Tsala Karpo, …

The future of mining technology: How digital …

The report found that adoption appears to be dependent on a range of factors, including production scale of mining operations, existing infrastructure, availability of trained staff, R&D capacities, and how willing the …

China and the future of Afghanistan's mineral wealth

The New Silk Road. Afghanistan could very well be the next stop on the new silk road. As the main manufacturer for half of the world's industrial goods, China has a major demand for commodities. The BRI is based on the principle of reciprocity: Chinese investment in return for control and development of Afghanistan's resources by Chinese ...

Innovation Ranking

GlobalData's Innovation Rankings use unique data analysis to highlight the companies at the cutting edge of global business.. The rankings are drawn from our 3i Innovation Framework which identifies companies' innovation potential using novel sources of data including patents, filings, jobs and deals and ranks them on 19 key innovation quality and strength indicators.

How the latest technology is driving safer, more …

The mining sector is notorious for being slow when it comes to embracing new technology. Mining is a cyclical industry, so organisations have been wary of making big changes, but trends suggest that this could be changing. According to the …

The CM Group

China's current and committed new alumina refineries, primary Al smelters and bauxite mining regions, which are organised by location and output. CM's ten-year strategic outlook for the primary magnesium industry details changes to the global supply base by …

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Russia sells stakes in Kazakh uranium deposits to Chinese companies News ... Mining Technology Focus (monthly) ... Mining news and in-depth feature articles on the latest mining company deals and projects covering trends in mineral exploration with up to date data on the most mined metal and mineral commodities.

Blessing and curse: understanding the social …

A new report by the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) attempts to determine the social impacts of Chinese mining operations in Africa. The study, which found both positives and negatives, once again …

Western miners call for tighter control on Chinese competition

Chinese supply of cobalt, lithium and other metals has led Western mining companies to close or limit production. For example, Jervois, which bought land and dug an 8000-foot US cobalt mine in Northern Idaho, told Reuters it has been forced to cease operations before it has even begun due to the global price of cobalt reaching $12.17.

Mali enters deal with Ganfeng for Goulamina mine …

The Mali Government has signed an agreement with Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium, granting it operational rights to the Goulamina lithium mine, reported Reuters, citing the West African country's economy ministry. This move aligns with Mali's revised mining code, which aims to enhance state revenue from mining projects.

SNIM Open Pit Iron Ore Mining

In 2001, SNIM formed a joint venture with Australia's Sphere Investments to study options for open-pit mining and beneficiation of the separate magnetite deposit at Guelb El Aouj and building a 5-7Mtpa plant yielding 70% …

Chinese metals and mining investment reaches record levels …

The BRI drew in a total of 148 countries and surpassed $1tn (7.17trn yuan) in cumulative projects. However, this week Italy's Defence Minister Guido Corsetto described the decision to join the BRI in 2019 as "improvised and atrocious".. Corsetto said that China were the only winners from the development project and it has done little to boost Italy's exports.

The biggest mining deals in 2024

According to industry analytics from Mining Technology's parent company, GlobalData, to date there have been 754 acquisitions totalling $99.73bn and 30 mergers totalling $2.43bn announced in the mining sector so far in 2024. This marks a 4% increase for acquisitions and a 9% decrease in mergers compared with 2023.

Intelligent innovation, equipment propelling …

During the three-day event, themed "Innovation promotes high-quality development of mining", new technologies and mining equipment were showcased. In addition to the digital twin platform, other hot topics at the …

How does social media change Chinese political culture? The formation

Social media promotes a broad discussion about the contemporary public sphere in China. Analyzing the relationship between social media and democratic politics in the unique context of China helps us to rethink a metamorphosis of Habermas's public sphere model. The study supports the idea that the online public sphere more often than not transforms into a …

Inside China's move to monopolise cobalt

Furthermore, China Molybedenum (CMOC) is the largest stakeholder in Tenke Fungurume Cu/Co mine (TFM) – which as an output estimate of 16,800t in 2017 – in the DRC after buying it from Freeport McMoRan in 2016. The mine is the primary unique supplier to Kokkola refinery in Finland, which sells to Japanese and Western technology manufacturers.

Sphere 3D Corp. Provides Bitcoin Production and Mining …

Lancium has the latest state of the art technology in immersion mining. We are in discussions with an another hosting provider to place 5000+ miners which we expect to be hashing in the next 30-45 days, as well as in definitive agreements to place another 2000+ miners. ... Sphere 3D 's mining fleet operated at 90.6 BTC/EH efficiency. Daily ...

China's depleting resources add fuel to the fire

The government has announced they will no longer be seeking to enter into deals without arrangements for expanding or implementing a new refinery. It remains to be seen whether China will choose to accept the country's new requirements. A draft mining plan for bauxite was approved by the Vietnamese government in 2007.

China has critical minerals assets: Copper and nickel

China is the largest refiner of copper. The major copper-producing countries are Chile, Peru, China, and the DRC. While Chile is currently the dominant player in terms of copper mining, China is the largest refiner of copper and will account for …

Chinese surveillance firm supplies smart CCTV to

Hikvision did not respond to Mining Technology enquiries as to whether the machine learning solely identified workers breaching health and safety practices, or whether the technology could also monitor and report worker behaviour to senior staff. Hikvision has come under fire recently for alleged ties to Chinese government surveillance operations.

A deep dive into China's role as "critical mineral …

As a leading producer of graphite, lithium and refined copper, China has an increasingly dominant position in critical mineral supply chains.

Chinalco explores $2bn stake purchase in Filipino copper mine

Chinalco, the largest Chinese state-run aluminium producer, has a portfolio of mining investments spanning from Guinea to Peru. This potential investment aligns with the actions of other Chinese companies such as Zijin Mining Group, which have been seeking global assets, especially in essential industrial metals, to meet growing demand.

Chinese companies vie for Newmont's Akyem gold mine

Shandong Gold Mining and Zijin Mining Group are among the early contenders expressing interest in the Akyem asset. Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining is also evaluating the Akyem mine, while Australian mining company Perseus Mining said last month that it would consider acquiring the asset. In 2022, Akyem reported annual gold production of 420,000oz.

Hashing Ahead: A Look at Bitcoin Mining in 2020

As the bitcoin mining sphere builds on this positive momentum from the end of 2019 and heads into 2020, ... Bendiksen noted that this increase in hash rate was largely the result of improved technology and, since most new mining computers are produced in China, Chinese miners were first in line in getting next generation technology upgrades ...

Cutting-edge technology rocks into mining industry

Huawei has offered cutting-edge technologies such as a WiFi-6 network to enable remote controls in the above-mentioned two gold mines in Laizhou. WiFi-6 can support a range of innovative solutions, such as …

Across China: Modern miners pave way for smart …

According to statistics from the National Mine Safety Administration, a total of 730 coal mines in China had been equipped with intelligent working faces as of last September. …

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Inside Orica's wireless blasting process

A four-year technology collaboration between the Swedish miner LKAB and Orica has yielded wireless explosives. The results, the WebGen wireless platform, has been commercially available since 2022, and has helped spur the more widespread development and rollout of wireless blasting within the global mining industry, which is always eager to innovate …

China's metals and mining investment overseas to hit record …

Chinese investments and new contracts in the metals and mining sector topped $10 billion during the first half of 2023, a 131% growth year-on-year. China's metals and mining investment overseas to ...

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