South Africa’s definition of critical minerals is not limited to those minerals used in the green economy and includes coal and uranium, says Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.

Analysis: A century ago, the wealthy borough of Waihi was the end of the line for the North Island main trunk. Coal trains would trundle from Paeroa, over three bridges and through a kilometre-long ...

South Africa’s Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said coal is making a comeback and should be considered a critical mineral for the nation because of its contribution to employment and ...

Department of Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad 826004, India Computational and Experimental Geomechanics Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian ...

A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an ordered crystalline structure formed by geological processes. Rocks are categorized into three main ...

New Delhi: State-owned Coal India on Tuesday said it has entered into a pact with Curtin University, Western Australia for potential research and development in the area of critical minerals. The pact ...

Specifically: The production of bituminous ... composition of foreign sales of the mining products was as follows: 60.0 percent from coal extraction, 35.6 percent from metal ore extraction, 3.1 ...

President Donald Trump is courting coal … again. But unlike during his unsuccessful 2017 bid to save the fossil fuel from a slide toward extinction, this time around the country is projected to ...