Australia is leading the charge towards greener and safer gold production with an environmentally-superior alternative gold recovery process technology, dispensing with toxic cyanide and mercury currently used in most gold production processes worldwide.
Coal ash has been reported to be one of Australia’s biggest waste issues, accounting for 18 per cent of the nation’s entire waste stream. Every year, Australian coal-fired power stations generate approximately 12 million tonnes of ash from burning coal, which can be turned into beneficial secondary products, but isn’t.
BHP has announced a US$6 million equity investment in Carbon Engineering (CE), a Canadian-based company leading the development of Direct Air Capture, an innovative technology which has the potential to deliver large-scale negative emissions by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Newmont Mining has completed the Tanami Power Project in Australia safely and on schedule.