by Gordon Barratt | Apr 8, 2021 | News
The Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) standard, first developed by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) in 2004, has been updated and now meets, or exceeds, the majority of the global standard’s requirements. The publication of the Global Industry Standard on...
by Gordon Barratt | Apr 8, 2021 | News
Lithium miner Piedmont Lithium has reported a 40% increase in its lithium resource at its namesake project in North Carolina. The ASX-listed company on Thursday announced that the total mineral resource estimate for the Piedmont project now stood at 39.2-million...
by Gordon Barratt | Apr 8, 2021 | News
Whyalla Steelworks, South Australia The collapse of German financier Greensill Capital has thrown the future of the GFG Alliance into jeopardy, with Australia’s Whyalla steel mill and Tahmoor Coal caught in the crossfire. Greensill was recently placed under...
by Gordon Barratt | Apr 8, 2021 | News
Image: Rio Tinto Rio Tinto has started recovering battery-grade lithium from 90-year-old waste piles at the Boron borate operation in California, the United States. Using a demonstration plant at the 480,000 tonne operation, Rio Tinto expects to recover 10 tonnes in...
by Gordon Barratt | Apr 7, 2021 | News
The value of iridium for proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis technology alone could exceed R90-billion in the next ten to 20 years. This is the view of Professor Dmitri Bessarabov, the director of the Department of Science and Innovation’s...
