Paving the Way to Cleaner Nickel
A new T&E paper looks at the current nickel market globally, Europe’s potential, and the ways to source nickel sustainably.
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Remining For The Energy Transition
A joint briefing by Earthworks and T&E outlines the potential and pitfalls for sourcing energy transition metals. Governments and companies are increasingly exploring the option to use materials contained in operating, closed, or abandoned mine sites via remining. Remining uses mine waste as a source material to extract minerals, metals, … [continued]
Nuclear Energy, Carbon Capture, & More: Questions From Smart Energy Webinar
Thanks to all the participants in the webinar who took the time to craft and submit the questions.
World’s Largest Lithium Mine Is In Australia
The world’s largest hard-rock lithium mine is the Pilbara Minerals’ Pilgangoora Mine situated in Western Australia. Just a few years ago, people were discussing the scarcity of lithium (you don’t see much around, if you ain’t looking for it.) Then the major concern was that lithium was mainly being sourced … [continued]
Selection of electric vehicles at the recent Coffee Cake and EVs event in Bracken Ridge, Queensland. Photo courtesy of Majella Waterworth.
Tesla’s Robyn Denholm Warns: Australia May Not Be Lucky Forever
Australia has long been known for being “the lucky country.” Our mineral wealth helped us avoid the worst of the GFC and we are currently avoiding recession because of the high value of our coal and gas exports (sadly, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine). We are … [continued]
Rio Tinto Produces Metals Critical to the rEVolution
Australian miners are global companies that are leading the search for critical minerals and materials to enable the green industrial revolution. At a local level, Queensland is encouraging miners to prepare for the time when coal is no longer their main product. But there is also a lot of movement … [continued]
JUWI South Africa Now Has 400 MW EPC Projects In Advanced Stages Of Development For…
JUWI Renewable Energies, a leading global solar, wind, and hybrid project developer, engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) and operations and maintenance company, recently announced that it now has 400 MW of EPC projects in advanced stages of development for mines in South Africa. The news follows the financial close of … [continued]
Wabtec Sends Electric Train Love Letter To World’s Largest Iron Mine
Wabtec is taking its FLXdrive electric train on the road, and the next stop is the world’s biggest iron ore mine and the world’s longest ore train, too.
Australian State Encourages Miners to Move Away from Fossil Fuels
How do you encourage vested interests to move away from fossil fuels and into future-facing mining activities? That is, away from coal mining and into mining the resources to make batteries. The Queensland Labour government is trying to strike the right balance. The Labour Party receives the majority of support … [continued]
Australian Mining Companies Chose Battery-Electric Over Hydrogen Fuel Cell Mining Trucks
Australia’s three largest mining companies agree that battery-electric trucks a far more efficient than fuel cell vehicles.
