The lithium race
Lithium has been the subject of a global race in recent years between countries such as Chile, Argentina, Australia and…
May 2023
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Jan 2023
Unobtainium: the differences between the Avatar mineral and real life
Avatar is back on the screen after 13 years with the new film production "Avatar: The Way of Water", which continues the…
Nov 2022
International Resource and Reserve Codes and the CBRR
After the Bre-X Case, considered the largest fraud in the history of mining, it became even more necessary to use good…
Jul 2022
Remote Sensing applied to Mining
With the evolution of technologies provided by Mining 4.0, the use of remote sensing is increasingly constant in the…
May 2022
Mining 4.0: future or reality of mining?
Industry 4.0 aims to make industrial production processes more efficient through the prioritization of innovative…
Mar 2022
6 Dictionaries and glossaries ideal for Geology and Mining professionals
You have probably interrupted a book or technical article because you do not understand the meaning of a certain word or…
ANNUAL MINING REPORT (RAL): what you need to know
The Annual Mining Report (RAL), imposed by the current legislation, in Art.67 of the ANM Normative Consolidation…
Nov 2021
Innovation, Technology, and High-Resolution Images: Learn more about DMT Corescan
The geological information that supports activities such as mining is largely the result of drilling techniques. Thus,…
Oct 2021
QA/QC in Mining: safety, reliability, and best practices in the mining sector
One of the main objectives of mining is to make the ore exploited marketable. For this to be possible, strict quality…
Aug 2021
Automation in Mining: The Kiruna Case
The future of mining points to a trend towards increasingly continuous and automated processes, aiming to meet the…
Apr 2021
The Bre-X Case and the movie Gold: The story behind the biggest mining fraud
The film Gold, translated as Gold and Greed, is a 2016 production inspired by the story of the mining company Bre-X. The…
Feb 2021
3 Successful Mine Closure Cases
As important as planning the extraction and use of mineral assets, is planning the end of mining operations. First of…
May 2020
The Zeche Zollverein mine and the beginning of mining in the Ruhr Valley, Germany
The Ruhr Valley in western Germany, an important industrial region in Europe, was dominated by coal mines and steel…
Geophysical methods in Mining
Geophysics studies the physical phenomena that occur on Earth, both in the most superficial layers (crust) – where…
Apr 2020
Drilling in Mining: Methods and Equipment
The geological information that supports activities such as civil construction and mining is largely obtained through…
Feb 2020
Zollverein Coal Mine Complex: transforming a mine closure into a large architectural complex
For almost 200 years, western Germany was the industrial center of the country, with the Ruhr Valley, located in the…
Jan 2020
Gold as a safe haven in geopolitical crises
In recent weeks, gold has again entered a wave of appreciation in the financial market, reaching 1,556 USD/oz on Monday,…
Dec 2019
DMT Corescan – High technology in core logging
The DMT CoreScan is a versatile device designed to obtain high-resolution images of complete or fragmented core cores…
Nov 2019
What is sampling and how does it apply to Mineral Exploration?
Sampling is a statistical technique that means extracting a part (sample) from the whole (population) with the purpose…