22+ hour, 7+ min ago   (425+ words) The Mt Lyell copper–gold mine on Tasmania’s west coast has secured key approvals to restart after nearly 10 years in care and maintenance, with operator Sibanye-Stillwater planning to bring the historic underground operation back into production. The brownfields restart is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (401+ words) Engineers on the latest Engineers Collective podcast debate whether the UK’s ageing infrastructure—much of it Victorian-era water, sewer and rail assets—can withstand more frequent extreme rainfall and heatwaves driven by climate change. Discussion centres on retrofitting existing embankments,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (390+ words) Two derailments at Lewes in Sussex and Wickford in Essex, plus a landslip on another Sussex route and a separate track defect in Surrey, have simultaneously disrupted key commuter and regional rail corridors in south-east England. The incidents point to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (397+ words) Maaden and Aramco have signed a shareholders’ agreement to create a joint venture focused on mineral exploration and hard‑rock mining across Saudi Arabia. The JV will combine Maaden’s multi‑commodity mining portfolio with Aramco’s capital strength and subsurface data…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (337+ words) New planning rules in the updated National Planning Policy Framework introduce default approval for residential schemes around rail and other transport stations, with central government signalling “thousands” of new homes in these high-accessibility zones. Local plans will now have to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (433+ words) Fourteen illegal chrome miners were found dead and at least eight injured after a cave-in near an abandoned shaft by the Nkaneng informal settlement, close to Marikana in South Africa’s North West province, with the collapse estimated around 21:00 on Monday....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (415+ words) Australia’s energy resources sector generated $180 billion in export earnings in 2023–24, accounting for about 27 per cent of the country’s total exports, according to Geoscience Australia’s Australia’s Energy Commodity Resources (AECR) 2026 report. The data place Australia as the eighth‑largest primary energy…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (412+ words) Vattenfall has appointed Natural Power to deliver comprehensive ground investigations for its planned 100MW Qurack and 90MW Quantans Hill onshore wind farms in Scotland, extending a 15‑year collaboration. Natural Power’s construction and geotechnical teams will deploy specialist site investigation techniques and advanced…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (428+ words) Anglo American reported a 35 per cent rise in underlying earnings to $US4 billion for H1 2026, driven by its portfolio shift towards copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients. The miner is prioritising higher-margin assets such as its South American copper operations and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (431+ words) Nuclear Waste Services is procuring specialist technical support under a £17.8M Environmental Safety Case: General Tech inc Geological & Hydrogeological framework for the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) in Cumbria. The framework will cover geological, hydrogeological and wider environmental safety case inputs…...