Faced with lower-grade ores, higher energy costs, and increased pressure from stakeholders to operate more efficiently, mining companies are looking for innovative ways to improve their plants' extraction productivity. Dr. Sevda Dehkoda shares how selective mining supports the industry’s long-term viability.

As we are currently experiencing the most significant "black swan" event of the century, one of the biggest questions on everyone's mind is: how can we plan in such an uncertain scenario?

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced aluminium prices to levels last seen during the 2008/2009 global financial crisis. If the industry responds correctly, there are reasons to be optimistic about the future of aluminium.

In the previous years, there were those that said the worst crisis in the steel industry happened during the financial crisis of 2009. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging that long-held view.

In Part 1 of his two-part blog, Trevor Bergfeldt addressed the global imperative for industrial sectors, such as mining, to reduce their carbon footprint and help mitigate the negative impacts of carbon emissions on the environment. Part 2 looks at some of the available solutions and how organizations can build a roadmap on their journey to carbon neutrality.

Town centres and high streets, which already had a strong case for proactive investment and attention before the virus hit, are where the economic impacts of COVID will play out most visibly. In the short-term, local government will play an important role in identifying affected businesses and trying to channel the support they need.

Four strategies to successfully manage uncertainty as an individual and as a business during COVID-19

A highly successful business requires an optimized project, a rapid ramp-up, and sustainable operation. These are conflicting goals which must be managed from day one by an integrated team from three separate organizations.

Mother Nature hit us hard this year on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. She gave us glimpses into a future that will be difficult to ignore once we regain control of our health and economic systems and settle in to our “new normal”.

As demand for minerals grows, mining companies are simultaneously faced with new and complex challenges in a rapidly-changing world. Trevor Bergfeldt addresses how the mining industry is helping to fight climate change by accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. This is part one of "Changing climate, changing priorities: the transition to a low-carbon economy."