Work on Britain’s first new metals mine in more than 40 years has begun in Devon where Wolf Minerals aims to begin extracting tungsten next year, the Australian company said on Monday. Hemerdon in Devon contains the world’s third-largest resource of tungsten, used to make super-hard steel, and Wolf Minerals’ project is expected to create around 200 jobs. Tungsten is in demand due to restrictions on output and exports by major producer China.
Work on Britain’s first new metals mine in more than 40 years has begun in Devon where Wolf Minerals aims to begin extracting tungsten next year, the Australian company said on Monday.
Hemerdon in Devon contains the world’s third-largest resource of tungsten, used to make super-hard steel, and Wolf Minerals’ project is expected to create around 200 jobs. Tungsten is in demand due to restrictions on output and exports by major producer China.
Rio Tinto Group will cut the workforce at its Rossing uranium site in Namibia by 23 percent as the world’s second-largest mining company responds to weaker demand for the metal used to fuel nuclear power plants.
The Obama administration unveiled historic environment rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants by 30% on Monday, spurring prospects for a global deal to end climate change but setting up an epic battle over the environment in this year’s mid-term elections.
The Federal and Northern Territory governments’ has approved Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia to re-start uranium processing at the embattled Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu, Australia. The decision was taken, ironically, on World Environment Day. The Ranger mine had been suspended since a uranium leach tank collapsed, spilling more than a million litres of radioactive and acidic slurry in December 2013.
