by Gordon Barratt | Jul 6, 2021 | News
Scanning electron microscopy photomicrograph showing gold microparticles (bright color) deposited with pyrite crystals from a hydrothermal solution in a laboratory experiment. Image: Maria Kokh and Gleb Pokrovski French scientists have dived deeper than ever before...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 5, 2021 | News
Despite the intensifying fight against global warming and climate change, which is supported by some of the world’s largest energy companies, Colombia’s president Ivan Duque is determined to expand the country’s coal mining. The strife-torn Andean nation is South...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 5, 2021 | News
Sibanye-Stillwater has elected to redeem its $353-million June 2022 bonds on August 2. This is in line with its capital allocation framework and will be done through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Stillwater Mining Company. The 2022 bonds were issued by the subsidiary...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 5, 2021 | News
Mining is vital to the South African economy and the opportunities that exist in mining can help guide the country’s path to a more inclusive and equitable economy, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated . Ramaphosa placed mineral and precious metal exports at the top of...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 5, 2021 | News
Extinct volcano Vayots Sar in Armenia. The mining of liquid ore containing copper, gold, zinc, silver and lithium from dormant volcanoes could become a reality following research from Oxford University. After 10,000 years of ‘magma degassing’, kilometres below Earth’s...
by Gordon Barratt | Jul 5, 2021 | News
Australia’s Source Certain International (SCI) has partnered with Cornish Lithium to develop technology that traces the origin of UK-mined lithium in lithium-ion batteries. The trust mark technology was developed by SCI, an Australian scientific technology company...
