15 September
The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has urged the State government to provide additional funding from its $3bn Covid-19 stimulus package to a collaborative programme which is aimed at boosting exploration for new resource discoveries. QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane said: “Exploration gives us new resource discoveries, new resource projects, new resource investment, new resource jobs, new resource exports and ultimately new resource royalties for all Queenslanders.”
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Omnia Holdings’ Protea Mining Chemicals division has developed a solution that helps copper and cobalt mines reduce product contamination and increase throughput in the solvent extraction process. The company said in a statement that finding safer ways to extract valuable resources continues to be a priority in the mining sector which has been constrained by the impacts of Covid-19.
