Black Rock Mining Limited (former names: Mokuti Mining Limited and Green Rock Energy Limited) is an Australian mining company. It develops the Mahenge Graphite Project in Tanzania
[
] which is the world fourth largest
graphite
Graphite () is a crystalline form of the element carbon. It consists of stacked layers of graphene. Graphite occurs naturally and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Synthetic and natural graphite are consumed on lar ...
resource.
[ Its chief executive officer is John de Vries.][
]
Between 2005 and 2015, the company explored and developed geothermal energy resources. In South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
, the company had seven geothermal exploration licences totalling and two licence applications surrounding Olympic Dam Mine and the Roxby Downs Roxby Downs may refer to.
* Roxby Downs, South Australia, a town and a locality
* Roxby Council, formerly Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, a local government area
See also
*Roxby Downs Station
Roxby Downs Station was a pastoral lease in centra ...
township. The company also had a geothermal project in Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
.[
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In 2014, it sold its Ocean Hill hydrocarbon block application in the North Perth Basin
The Perth Basin is a thick, elongated sedimentary basin in Western Australia. It lies beneath the Swan Coastal Plain west of the Darling Scarp, representing the western limit of the much older Yilgarn Craton, and extends further west offshore. C ...
to Eneabba Gas and focused to graphite assets.[
]
In March 2022, Black Rock Mining was sued by Dalton Trucking Incorporated.
In April 2022, Black Rock Mining was sued by United Rentals
United Rentals, Inc. () is the world's largest equipment rental company, with about 13 percent of the North American market share as of 2019. It owns the largest rental fleet in the world with approximately 4,700 classes of equipment totaling abo ...
.
References
External links
* {{official, www.blackrockmining.com.au
Mining companies of Australia