Archives: Energy minerals

The US International Development Finance Corp (DFC) has made a $25 million investment into TechMet Ltd, a private investment company with a portfolio of projects that produce, process and recycle metals tied to the production of electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energy systems and energy storage. The funds will be used to bring into initial commercial[…]

Pensana Rare Earths says it has successfully produced a neodymium- and praseodymium-rich mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC) from test work currently underway on mineralisation from its Longonjo rare earth project, in Angola. Industry experts Wood Group and Nagrom, based on test work performed at metallurgical laboratories in Perth, Western Australia, have successfully developed a flowsheet[…]

Primero Group says it has recently booked new business totalling some A$55 million ($39 million) with Fortescue Metals Group, Rio Tinto and the Hazer Group as it continues to build out its 2021 financial year contracted order book. First, it has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Non-Process Infrastructure (NPI) at[…]

Boss Resources has announced plans to evaluate the replacement of the existing solvent extraction (SX) columns on the Honeymoon uranium mine site, in South Australia, with new NIMCIX columns. Initial results from test work indicate the potential for this to increase production profile and reduce operating costs for the project, Boss said. The NIMCIX contactor[…]

Today the European Commission launched the new European Raw Materials Alliance, as announced in the Commission’s Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials on 3 September. EIT RawMaterials will manage the stakeholder consultation process across the entire raw materials value chain, working with an innovation project-driven community, which brings together more than 150 industrial and non-industrial[…]

There have been a lot of misleading press reports in English in mining as well as general publications that seem to suggest that a recent deal struck between the Polish Ministry of State Assets and the Silesian branches of the coal miners’ Solidarity union translates to the end of all underground hard coal mining in[…]

Primero Group has been awarded preferred EPC status on a substantial contract with Strandline Resources on the Coburn mineral sands project in Western Australia. The total volume of awarded engineering procurement and construction (EPC) works totals around A$150 million ($107 million), according to Primero, and follows an initial eight-week Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) process that[…]

Clean TeQ Holdings and Fluor Australia have come up with a Project Execution Plan (PEP) for the Sunrise Battery Materials project in New South Wales, Australia, that, Clean TeQ says, confirms the asset’s status as one of the world’s lowest cost, development-ready sources of critical battery raw materials. This builds on a 2018 definitive feasibility[…]

Australian Potash says it has finalised the front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of Australia’s first high penetration renewable power solution on a greenfield sulphate of potash (SOP) minerals project development. The study outlined a base case renewable power penetration rate of 53% with potential to rise to 87%,[…]

European Metals Holdings (EMH) has appointed SMS group Process Technologies as the lead engineer for minerals processing and lithium battery-grade chemicals production at the Cinovec project in the Czech Republic. Cinovec, a joint venture between European Metals (49%) and ČEZ Group (51%, through its subsidiary Severočeské doly), is operated by Geomet. The project has recently[…]