by Gordon Barratt | Jun 7, 2021 | News
Iron-ore prices tumbled as China’s subdued trade data for May and narrowing steel profit margins dampened the market’s enthusiasm about demand prospects for the steelmaking ingredient. China, which accounts for more than half of the world’s steel...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 7, 2021 | News
US President Joe Biden President Joe Biden’s strategy to make the United States a powerhouse in electric vehicles will include boosting domestic recycling of batteries to reuse lithium and other metals, according to government officials. As Biden makes fighting...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 7, 2021 | News
BHP has contributed to a $US50 million ($64 million) investment in Jetti Resources, which has developed a new copper extraction technology. The technology allows copper to be extracted from low-grade primary sulphide including chalcopyrite. Existing Jetti Resources...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 7, 2021 | News
Researchers have developed an effective method to cost-effectively extract lithium from seawater at a purity of 99.94 per cent while also creating freshwater. The research team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia devised an...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 4, 2021 | News
Plans are in place to increase global coal capacity by almost a third of the 2019 total despite global ambitions to abandon it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. The new coal capacity of 2277...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 4, 2021 | News
Lithium developer Piedmont Lithium has appointed Michael White as executive VP and CFO. White will oversea Piedmont’s financial accounting and reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, compliance, treasury, tax, and risk management functions. He joins...
