McKinsey’s Roland Rechtsteiner on the energy transition and commodities markets
Commodities markets have seen rapid growth over recent years, attracting new players and creating new opportunities for a transitioning energy…
23 Apr 2024
The nickel price crash and the road to recovery in Australia
The global nickel market has been volatile for years now. The price rollercoaster of 2022 saw prices for the metal soar, plummet and then soar again in the space of…
19 Apr 2024
Navigating net zero: can miners meet their emission reduction targets?
With climate change on everyone’s mind, emission reduction targets have become a major focus of every sector, but especially within the mining industry. The world’s biggest mining companies have set…
19 Apr 2024
Untapped mineral riches: Angola looks beyond diamond mining
Angola, the seventh-largest country in Africa, is most well-known for being one of the region’s biggest oil exporters. The commodity provides around half of the country’s fiscal revenues, yet it…
18 Apr 2024
Tech wrap: ground engaging tools go digital
Ground engaging tools (GETs) are a critical element of mining tools. Used as attachments to industrial-scale machinery, they work in concert with diggers, excavators, scrapers, bulldozers and loaders almost on…
16 Apr 2024
Chemical contamination: cyanide risks in the spotlight
In February 2024, nine Turkish rescue workers were swallowed by a landslide at the Çöpler open-pit gold mine in eastern Turkey, which was contaminated by cyanide. The incident on 13…
12 Apr 2024
Can Namibia tap its copper potential?
The copper industry is gearing up for a boom as the clean energy transition causes a spike in global demand for the resource that has been dubbed the “metal of…