Archives: Energy minerals

Metso is expanding its sustainable offering for the lithium market, having validated its proprietary, sulphate-free alkaline pressure leach process as a Planet Positive technology for the production of battery-grade lithium. Metso’s hydrometallurgical alkaline leach process is a simple and safe way to refine spodumene concentrate to battery-grade end products like lithium hydroxide monohydrate and lithium[…]

Anglo American and Finnish Minerals Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together to explore opportunities to, they say, further support Finland’s battery strategy. Finnish Minerals Group is a holding and development company that manages the Finnish Government’s mining industry shareholdings and supports the development of the Finnish battery value chain. Among[…]

Anglo American has launched a research and development project in collaboration with GEM, one of China’s largest battery and battery material recyclers, to explore new and more efficient technologies for the use of existing and alternative raw materials to be used in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). Paul Ward, Executive Head of Base Metals Marketing[…]

Denison Mines Corp has selected Wood Canada to complete the detailed design engineering for the in-situ recovery (ISR) mining project planned for Denison’s flagship Phoenix uranium deposit in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada. Part of the global consulting and engineering firm Wood PLC, Wood Canada previously completed an NI 43-101 feasibility study in 2023[…]

EV Metals Group plc (EVM), a global battery chemicals and technology company, has signed a technical partnership frame agreement with Metso for a Lithium Chemicals Plant (LCP) to be built in Yanbu Industrial City in Saudi Arabia. The agreement signed at the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, outlines plans to engage Metso as[…]

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has been certified by the international assessor DNV as having produced 614,000 t of ultra low carbon ammonia, representing the largest quantity accredited in the world to date, it claims. This is a significant step forward in Ma’aden’s plans to grow and transform its business to become an ESG role[…]

The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has entered into an agreement with Metso and thyssenkrupp Uhde for the development and licensing of Ma’aden’s Integrated process concept, aiming for greenfield facilities at Ras Al Khair in Saudi Arabia, and the deployment of technology able to capture CO2 and recycle phosphogypsum. The technology for CO2 capturing comes[…]

Pacific Energy is pleased to announce it will be converting its diesel power plant at Pilbara Minerals Limited’s Pilgangoora Operation, in Western Australia, to a combined natural gas-diesel power station, helping to deliver a lower-emissions future for Pilbara Minerals. The announcement comes off the back of the recent Pilbara Minerals’ ASX announcement detailing the lithium[…]

A milestone has been reached to deliver a domestic supply of lithium in the UK, with three companies from the north of England – Northern Lithium, Evove and Sheers – having signed an agreement aimed at delivering the UK’s first commercial-scale direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant that combines UK-developed technology, UK sourced lithium-bearing saline brines[…]

Thiess has been awarded a three-year contract with GEMCO, a manganese operation on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, owned jointly by South32 and Anglo American. The mining services contract, valued at approximately A$120 million ($79 million), marks Thiess’s re-entry into the Northern Territory. Thiess says it is committed to efficient and safe mining operations, sustainability, and[…]