Archives: Energy minerals

Australian Mines has teamed up with sustainability, carbon and energy management consultancy, Pangolin Associates, to develop a “Carbon Neutrality plan” and achieve 100% carbon neutral status by June 30. Australian Mines, which is developing the Sconi cobalt-nickel-scandium project in Queensland, Australia, aims to become certified Carbon Neutral, under the Australian Government’s Climate Active Program, through[…]

Mincor says it plans to incorporate some of the most modern mining technology to enhance safety, boost operational efficiency and reduce costs at its integrated nickel re-start project in the Kambalda District of Western Australia. Having released the definitive feasibility study on the project, the company is now awaiting a positive final investment decision from[…]

South Africa’s mining operators are racing against time to prepare for a nationwide lockdown starting at midnight on March 26 and running until midnight Thursday April 16 as the government tries to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The priority is to ensure worker health and safety during the process while also ensuring where[…]

Having successfully excavated two 8-11 m diameter blind shafts using Shaft Boring Roadheaders (SBRs) at the BHP-owned Jansen potash project, Herrenknecht is leveraging all the lessons it learnt in Saskatchewan, Canada, to ensure this technology proves to be a “game changer” for the sinking of shafts in soft and medium-hard rock. Mining contractor DMC Mining[…]

Northvolt has recently delivered its largest order of lithium-ion battery systems to date to Epiroc, as the two companies’ partnership continues to blossom. The delivery of systems – which will be integrated into Epiroc’s mid-sized drilling family, Scooptram ST14 LHD and Minetruck MT42 – is the latest in a series made for Epiroc since 2018[…]

Petroteq Energy Inc., an integrated oil ‎company focused on the development and implementation of its proprietary oil-‎extraction and remediation technologies, has announced progress on the licensing of its proprietary oil-sands extraction ‎technology. On July 2, 2019, the company announced that it had entered into a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Valkor LLC, a company based[…]

An international research team has pioneered and patented a new filtration technique that could one day slash lithium extraction times. The study, published today in the international journal Nature Materials, presents findings that demonstrate the way in which Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) channels can mimic the filtering function, or ‘ion selectivity’, of biological ion channels embedded[…]

Leading North American uranium supplier and international energy group Uranium One is teaming up with distributed ledger technology firm Insolar to research the possibility of deploying a blockchain-based solution for commodity settlement. Uranium One is a global energy company and one of the world’s largest uranium producers, with a diverse portfolio of assets worldwide. Insolar[…]

Descartes Labs, a New Mexico-based geospatial analytics company, has announced the availability of its Advanced Mineral Exploration Package, a specialised data platform and modelling workbench for exploration geology and data science teams to access remote sensing and machine learning capabilities globally. The Advanced Mineral Exploration Package lets clients integrate in-house data with the platform, giving[…]

By June 1, 2021, metal and diamond mines need to comply with the revisions to the metal and diamond mining effluent regulations (MDMER), which were released by Canada’s federal government in 2018. These revised guidelines – originally known as MMER, or metal mining effluent regulations – will affect over 100 metal and diamond mines in[…]