Archives: Energy minerals

Anglo American is to invest more money in the construction of its Woodsmith polyhalite mine in Yorkshire, UK, in 2021, following sound progress on the development in 2020. In an investor presentation this week, Chief Executive, Mark Cutifani, announced the company will invest $500 million in Woodsmith next year, an increase on the $300 million[…]

Glencore has become the latest mining major to plot a path to reach “net-zero emissions”, with a plan that includes the use of battery-electric vehicles at one of its underground operations in Canada and renewable power at its South Africa ferroalloy sites. The company has committed to reducing its total emissions footprint – Scope 1,[…]

Piedmont Lithium has awarded the definitive feasibility study (DFS) of its planned spodumene concentrate operations in North Carolina, USA, to a combined team including Primero Group and Marshall Miller & Associates. Marshall Miller is to lead quarry design activities, while Primero will advance the concentrator design, infrastructure design, and be responsible for overall study management,[…]

Agrimin has awarded Royal IHC the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract to provide automated wet harvesting equipment for the Mackay potash project in Western Australia. Wet harvesting is currently used at the world’s largest sulphate of potash (SOP) operations and IHC is the world leader in the design and manufacture of dredging systems[…]

Northern Alberta’s two oil sands giants and neighbours are finally coming together. Suncor, as 58.74% owner of the Syncrude Joint Venture, has announced that it, together with the other Syncrude joint venture owners – Imperial Oil Resources Ltd (25%), CNOOC Oil Sands Canada (7.23%) and Sinopec Oil Sands Partnership (9.03%) – have agreed in principle[…]

Talga Group says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ABB to support the development and construction of its Vittangi Anode project, in northern Sweden. Talga is constructing a scalable battery anode production facility and integrated graphite mining operation in northern Sweden, using 100% renewable electricity to supply ultra-low emission coated anode for,[…]

LKAB has presented its new strategy for the future, setting out a path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from its own processes and products by 2045, while securing the company’s operations with expanded mining beyond 2060. Jan Moström, President and CEO of LKAB, said the plan represented the biggest transformation in the company’s 130-year history,[…]

Nouveau Monde is putting out a call to arms across the technology space for its Matawinie graphite project, in Quebec, Canada. The company, which has been pushing forward development of an all-electric open-pit mine in the province, has issued an “international call for pre-qualification” related to the fleet and charging infrastructure at the project. Since[…]

Eurobattery Minerals AB, a mining and exploration company with a vision to help Europe become self-sufficient in ethically-sourced battery minerals, has announced an extension of its ongoing collaboration with Uppsala University, in Sweden. The company has supported the university in its application to the Swedish innovation agency, Vinnova, for a project that focuses on new[…]

In its Investor Day 2020 presentation delivered on November 19, Simon Younger, Imperial Oil Upstream SVP had some interesting updates on its strategy of innovation and modernisation acceleration across its operations. Notably the company has given its first update in a while on its autonomous mining truck project at its Kearl oil sands mine in[…]