Scandium: From Soviet Secrets to China's Monopoly
Scandium: From Soviet secret to Chinese monopoly Because of the potentially high demand for climate technologies such as the hydrogen industry, the West is trying to produce its own production of the expensive rare earth metal. The aerospace and automotive industries could benefit from a safe and cheap supply of scandium. A week ago the second trilogue meeting on Critical Raw Materials took place in Brussels […]
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E-car batteries: Nickel from Indonesia instead of Russia
E-car batteries: Nickel from Indonesia instead of Russia The demand for nickel for cathodes will multiply by 2030. So far, the emerging EU battery industry has been dependent on Russian nickel. Because of the war in Ukraine, nickel from Indonesia is very popular. There, however, mining threatens primeval forests and isolated indigenous peoples. Joko Widodo's popularity limited […]
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Auto industry biggest driver for cobalt mining
The automotive industry is the biggest driver of cobalt mining The continuing miserable mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are casting a shadow over the otherwise clean image of electromobility. Even if there are now alternatives, cobalt will remain indispensable for electric cars in the medium term. Despite price volatility and sometimes inhumane working conditions, global mining increased to 2021 tons in 175.000, according to The Cobalt Institute. Corresponding […]
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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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Tesla signs cobalt deal with Glencore
Tesla's reluctant attitude towards cobalt is a warning to others. The unpredictable Elon Musk strikes again. Just as his electric vehicle company Tesla seemed to be moving away from using cobalt in its batteries, he signed a long-term supply contract for the controversial metal with Glencore. This from the man who swore to remove cobalt from the Tesla product mix [...]
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Five battery raw materials should be observed in 2020
Battery commodities should be given special attention in 2020. 2019 was a year largely marked by falling prices and disappointing performance in both the EV (electric vehicle) and consumer electronics sectors, according to research firm Wood Mackenzie on Monday. But interest in electrification shows no signs of diminishing. The value chain of a [...]
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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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Rio Tinto starts producing lithium in California from old mining waste.
Rio Tinto begins producing lithium in California from old mining waste. The Rio Tinto Group is starting a pilot production of lithium in California, searching old mining debris rather than exploring new locations as the battery revolution in electric cars drives demand for the material. The reprocessing of garbage dumps from a 90-year-old mining site in the [...]
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ISE - Manufacture of ultra-fine electrolytic copper powder and cobalt powder
Production of very fine electrolytic metal powders Using the example of electrolytically produced cobalt powder, nickel powder and copper powder. Soluble and insoluble anodes connected to separate power sources are used to control the dissolution of the soluble anode during the electrolysis process and the concentration of metal ions in solution by correcting the ratio of the anode strengths of the current of the soluble and insoluble [...]
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