A woman returned to a small village in southwestern China to find her kitchen floor on the verge of collapsing, just before the latest sinkhole – of more than 30 recorded in the past 17 months – in the area opened up beneath her home. The Baxiangping community within Xiangping village, northeast of Fuquan city,…
A South Korean mine has reopened after two decades of disuse, with the potential to be a reliable source of a rare metal critical for modern militaries that China has a near-stranglehold over. Packing a high energy density and nearly as hard as a diamond, tungsten penetrates targets more effectively than other metals, making it…
Rio Tinto will partner with China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to demonstrate battery swap electric haul truck technology at the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. Battery swapping technology allows a battery electric vehicle to quickly exchange a discharged battery pack for a fully charged one, instead of recharging the vehicle at a static…