Archives: High tech minerals

Rio Tinto and Volvo Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a strategic partnership where Rio will supply responsibly sourced low-carbon products and solutions to Volvo Group, however, it also states that the companies will work towards decarbonising Rio Tinto’s operations through piloting Volvo Group’s sustainable autonomous hauling solutions. Volvo’s autonomous hauling[…]

Copperstone Resources AB and GreenIron H2 AB are starting a joint development project, based on GreenIron’s fossil-free reduction process and Copperstone’s future by-product flows from planned copper and magnetite mining. The project intends to optimise material handling both before and after GreenIron’s process. Copperstone will contribute with material handling and analysis and GreenIron will contribute[…]

Heng Huang is the Managing Director of Beijing HOT Mining Tech Co Ltd, one of the most innovative and up and coming players in China’s mineral processing technology and mining equipment markets. His background includes various roles at JohnFinlay Engineering Pty Co Ltd in engineering and project delivery for coal preparation, handling and washing plants,[…]

Shell & AMG Recycling BV (SARBV) and its partner, the United Company for Industry (UCI) have announced the signing of an agreement with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) under which SARBV and UCI shall construct and operate a world-class ‘Metals Reclamation Complex’ for the recovery and recycling of metals in Al-Jubail Industrial City, in[…]

Nevada Vanadium Mining Corp recently selected Hitachi Energy, the global technology and market leader in power grids, to provide consulting services related to the development of a renewable energy supply for the planned Gibellini mine. Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to define the energy requirements for all mining operations at site,[…]

Snow Lake Resources Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Epiroc Canada Inc for Epiroc to assist with the technical and commercial design of the world’s first fully electric lithium mine at the company’s Snow Lake LithiumTM project in Manitoba, Canada. In addition, the company provided an update on its ongoing drilling campaign[…]

Fluor Corporation has announced that its Mining & Metals business was awarded a contract to perform engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for Iluka Resources Ltd’s Eneabba project, a fully integrated rare earths refinery in Eneabba, Western Australia. Fluor will book the undisclosed reimbursable contract value in the second quarter of 2022. Fluor will complete[…]

Clough has been appointed as lead Engineer and preferred EPC contractor for the development of TNG’s Mount Peake project located 235 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.  The Mount Peake Project, which is one of the largest undeveloped vanadium-titanium-iron projects in the world, has been awarded Major Project Status by both the[…]

Australian Strategic Materials Ltd (ASM) says that its subsidiary Australian Strategic Materials (Holdings) Ltd (ASMH) has awarded Hyundai Engineering Co Ltd (HEC), a company based in South Korea, the contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction definition work (EPCD) for the Dubbo mining and processing roject. Dubbo is a potential long-term resource of rare earths,[…]

On March 20, a ceremony was held at the heartland of the Catamarca Andes, at 4,100 m above sea level, to mark the start of construction of Zijin Mining’s 3Q lithium brine project, a project with an initial annual production of 20,000 t of lithium carbonate. Also in Argentina, Rio Tinto has announced that it[…]