Graphjet Technology to build agricultural waste-to-graphite production plant in Nevada
Graphjet Technology, a Malaysia-headquartered developer of technologies to produce graphite and graphene directly from agricultural waste, announced Monday it plans to build a commercial artificial graphite production facility in Nevada.
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Nickel price crash seen extending Indonesia’s grip on supply
A prolonged slump in nickel prices is stress-testing producers worldwide, raising the prospect of sweeping mine closures that will deepen Indonesia’s dominance of global supply.
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Western miners seek premium pricing for rare earth metals to break China grip
Mining News Pro - A handful of Canadian, German and Australian critical mineral explorers plan to command premium prices for key metals used in electric vehicles, promising quality and consistency in exchange for shifting reliance away from China, the dominant producer and price-setter.
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World battles to loosen China’s grip on vital rare earths for clean energy transition
Mining News Pro - Refining rare earths for the green energy transition is hard. Just ask MP Materials and Lynas.
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BHP seeks to tighten grip on South America’s copper sector
Mining News Pro - BHP (ASX: BHP), the world’s largest miner, is hoping to expand its investments in Argentina’s copper sector, where it already has a presence through its 9.9% stake Canada’s Filo Mining, the junior developing the Filo del Sol copper-gold-silver project straddling the border with Chile.
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GRI presents sustainability reporting standard for mining companies
Mining News Pro - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international independent organization for impact reporting across sectors has proposed a new sustainability reporting standard for mining companies.
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UK grid asks coal reserve to prepare as cold snap looms
Mining News Pro - The UK’s grid operator asked one coal-fired power unit to be ready to generate power as it seeks to boost electricity supplies during a cold snap.
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Destroyed Ukrainian Energy Grids Impact Steel Production
Mining News Pro - Many Russian offensive measures have targeted the Ukrainian energy network.
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US MINES act seeks to curb Russia, China grip on critical minerals
Mining News Pro - Republican congressman Ken Calvert (CA-42) this week introduced the Monitoring and Investigating Nations Exploiting States (MINES) Act to “hold China and Russia accountable for their efforts to monopolize critical mineral resources around the world, particularly in developing nations.”
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Coal giants are making mega profits as climate crisis grips the world
Mining News Pro - The globe is in the grips of a climate crisis as temperatures soar and rivers run dry, and yet it’s never been a better time to make money by digging up coal.
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Newly discovered ‘strange metal’ could be key to lossless power grids, quantum computers
Mining News Pro - A team of American and Chinese researchers have found strange metal behaviour in a material in which electrical charge is carried not by electrons, but by wave-like entities called Cooper pairs.
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Uranium price surges as unrest grips world’s top supplier Kazakhstan
Mining News Pro - Uranium prices jumped as Kazakhstan, the world’s largest producer of the radioactive metal, struggles to cope with deadly protests that pose the biggest challenge to the country’s leadership in decades.
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Swedish consortium gets funding to commercialize grid-scale energy storage concept
Mining News Pro - An international consortium led by Swedish grid-scale energy storage company Mine Storage has been granted Vinnova funding to finalize the blueprint for what could be the world’s first commercial underground mine storage facility, indicating increased interest in the potential of using abandoned mines for energy storage.
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China’s State Grid warns of tight supply in winter, despite easing power crunch
Mining News Pro - China’s State Grid Corp warned of a “tight balance” between power supply and demand through winter until spring, even though a power crunch has eased following measures to boost coal supplies and get large users to cut back on electricity.
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Lake Wells microgrid creates greenest SOP project
Mining News Pro - Australian Potash has selected PWR Hybrid to build, own and operate a 35MW hybrid renewable microgrid at the Lake Wells sulphate of potash (LSOP) project in Western Australia.
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Myanmar army tightens grip on lucrative jade sector
Mining News Pro - Myanmar’s military has further tightened its grip on the country’s jade trade, using the industry to finance the February 1 coup that plunged the country into turmoil, a new report released Tuesday shows.
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Primero receives engineering design contract from Agrimin
Mining News Pro - Agrimin has awarded Primero Group with a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the process plant at the Mackay potash project in Western Australia.
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Iron-ore’s ‘ridiculous’ prices to stay as fear grips commodities
Mining News Pro - Iron-ore’s stunning surge won’t fade anytime soon because buyers remain nervous about being caught short as global demand accelerates amid lingering supply threats, according to a veteran commodities trader.
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B2Gold commissions world`s largest off-grid solar plants for the mining industry
Mining News Pro - B2Gold, a low-cost international senior gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, announced the commissioning of an off-grid hybrid solar-battery system at Fekola in southwest Mali, one of the world’s biggest gold mines.
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B2Gold commissions “world’s largest” off-grid solar battery plant at Fekola
Mining News Pro - Canada’s B2Gold has commissioned an off-grid solar battery hybrid system at its Fekola gold mine in Mali, said to be the world’s largest in the mining industry.
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Agriculture seen as key just transition enabler in Mpumalanga
Mining News Pro - Transitioning Mpumalanga’s coal-heavy economy to higher levels of agricultural output could help create new businesses and jobs and improve the long-term economic resilience of the province as mines close and Eskom begins decommissioning power stations in line with the Integrated Resource Plan of 2019 (IRP 2019).
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Agrimin`s unit signs farm-in deal with Rio Tinto for copper-gold licenses in WA
Mining News Pro - Fertiliser developer Agrimin Ltd said on Friday its unit had signed a farm-in deal with Rio Tinto for sale of up to a 75% stake in five copper-gold licenses it holds in the West Arunta region of Western Australia.
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Nickel, cobalt price: 10 charts show China’s grip on battery supply chain to last decades
Mining News Pro - New study shows Asian cathode, precursor producers’ control of nickel, cobalt supply go way beyond long-term off-take agreements
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Griffith appointed CEO designate of Gold Fields
Mining News Pro - Gold Fields has appointed Chris Griffith CEO designate.
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Iron ore price frenzy grips China’s mammoth steel sector
Mining News Pro - Prices for iron ore have more than doubled in 2020, putting the steelmaking raw material on track to be the top-performing major commodity globally for a second straight year as speculative money floods in and Chinese demand holds firm.
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