According to the Ocean Panel, deep-sea mining could destroy undiscovered life forms
According to the Ocean Panel, deep-sea mining could destroy undiscovered life forms.Mining on the seabed should not begin until a full assessment of likely environmental impacts can be made, according to a report commissioned by the High-Level Ocean Panel has been. Environmentalists, including the British David Attenborough, have a ban [...]
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ISE - Rare Earth Elements Market Report for September 2019
ISE - Rare Earth Elements Market Report for September 2019 The REE market is recovering, the industry report assumes that the prices for REE will continue to rise in the second half of the year. On September 20, 2019, the report of the China Rare Earth Industry Index (hereinafter referred to as "the report"), which was jointly published by the China Economic [...]
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According to Apple, the new iPhone generation consists of 25% of recycled rare earth elements
The new generation of iPhones is made up of 25% recycled rare earth elements, according to Apple Tech giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has announced that it will use 100% recycled rare earth elements in the new iPhones, which are used in all major Components are included. As in the environmental reports for the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and [...]
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The 16. International Rare Earth Conference of Metal Events Ltd.
The 16th International Rare Earth Conference of Metal Events Ltd. has moved from Hong Kong - please note the new hotel and location for this event. Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 6th to 8th 2019 The special rate of £ 1.200 per person expires on September 18th and increases to […]
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New study by e-mobil BW reveals solutions for the raw material problem of electromobility
“We have to make the raw material upstream chains more sustainable for all technologies” The new study by e-mobil BW for the raw material requirements of battery-electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles has shown that the elements lithium, cobalt, platinum, nickel, the rare earth metals and copper due to their expected Significance for electric vehicles and their limited availability and substitutability should be classified as critical. Only with available, [...]
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Reduction of pollution by marine sculpture
06-08-2019 - A research team led by the University of Adelaide has developed a new approach to clean water from microplastics that pollute it without harming nearby microorganisms. Plastic waste ends up in the oceans and rivers and poses a global environmental threat that has health consequences for animals, people and ecosystems. The explorers […]
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Kick-off of the SUSMAGPRO project in Pforzheim
Revolutionizing the recycling of permanent magnets August 1.08.2019, 2019 - In June 2020 the first phase of a four-year EU-funded research and innovation project began with a kick-off event in Pforzheim. The SUSMAGPRO project (full title: Sustainable recovery, recycling and reuse of rare earth magnets in a circular economy) is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 19 program. XNUMX project partners are involved in this [...]
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MinSEM - Research project for the closure of recyclable material cycles Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC
Over the next three years, a consortium of seven scientific institutions and companies, headed by the Fraunhofer project group IWKS, will develop innovative processes for the recovery of rare earth elements and platinum group metals from mineral processing and production residues. As part of the MinSEM project, research is being carried out on processes that make it possible to process a wide range of mineral materials in such a way that [...]
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Invitation to the workshop - Fraunhofer project group IWKS
On October 15, 2015, a workshop on the subject of "Electro-hydraulic shredding - New method for processing material composites" will take place in the premises of the Fraunhofer project group IWKS in Alzenau. The workshop is organized in cooperation with ImpulsTec GmbH, a young high-tech company that builds and sells high-voltage pulse systems and components for high-voltage pulse technology. In the half-day workshop [...]
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New technology brings rare earth from electronic waste
A young US company has developed a process for recovering rare earth elements from electronic waste. The futurezone asked. With his start-up Reecycle (Ree stands for Rare Earth Elements, note), the 25-year-old US entrepreneur Casey McNeil offers a process that allows valuable rare earths to be recovered from electronic waste and at a profit. "We have an organic [...]
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