Palladium Challenge 2021
The Institute for Rare Earths and Metals AG supports the Palladium Challenge 2021 Nornickel, the world's largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a major producer of platinum and copper, announces the start of the Palladium Challenge, a competition with prize money of USD 350.000, which in partnership with the International Precious Metals Institute [...]
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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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Canada's mining sector at a turning point with C $ 97 billion
Canada's C $ 97 Billion Mining Sector at a Tipping Point The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) released its annual Facts & Figures report Tuesday, saying it was time the industry realized its potential as the dominant mining nation exhausts. The resource-rich country is one of the five leading countries in the global [...]
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Waste heat recovery can lead to clean energy generation at mining sites.
Waste heat recovery can lead to clean energy generation at mine sites. The optimization of the efficiency of diesel gensets arouses the interest of miners, as a new report from THEnergy shows. The approach is based on conventional steam turbine technology, but advances have made it possible to use it on a smaller scale. The principle behind it is the solution to the question that [...]
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Millennium and the mining industry, the impending shortage of battery metals
Millennium and the mining industry, the impending shortage of battery metals - Mining Indaba 2020. In the trend report Tracking the trends 2019 published by Deloitte, the top 10 topics that will change the future of mining, a topic was highlighted that is already known to many in the mining industry becomes - the industry is struggling with a perception problem among younger people, [...]
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Thyssen Krupp - New generation of rock crushers
Thyssen Krupp - New Generation of Rock Crushers When it comes to hard rock applications, mining companies primarily rely on jaw and rotary crushers. Although these are suitable and proven for such applications, they require great installation depths. We present the new eccentric roll crusher (ERC) from thyssenkrupp. The compact and robust ERC, which was launched on the [...]
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A new environmental thinking is also very expensive for the metal industry
New environmentally conscious thinking is also very costly for the metal industry. Metal producers, from miners to smelters, are faced with increasingly strict and expensive environmental requirements imposed by banks in search of cleaner investments. While the switch can prove insurmountable for smaller producers, large companies have a long window of opportunity [...]
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New data portal promoting mining in Uganda
New Data Portal to Promote Mining in Uganda A New Zealand company specializing in geosciences, modeling and collaborative technologies has launched the Uganda Geoscience Data Portal, which is primarily aimed at promoting mineral exploration and making it better Support decision-making in the early stages of production in the country. [...]
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Mining in Zambia is no longer competitive
Mining in Zambia is no longer competitive Zambia's 2019 mining tax regime has significantly increased the tax burden on mining companies, making the sector inefficient and uncompetitive, according to a report by two of the country's leading economists. Professor Oliver Saasa from Premier Consult and Shebo Nalishebo from the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) say that Zambia […]
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Silicon Valley would not exist without mining
Silicon Valley would not exist without mining. We have all heard of Moore's Law: The number of transistors on a silicon chip doubles every two years. But who has heard of Moore's law in mining? Since 1920, labor productivity in the global mining industry has doubled every 14 years. It doesn't quite like [...]
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