Goldman veteran Jeff Currie remains bullish on commodities this year
Mining News Pro - Jeff Currie, who spearheaded commodities research at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for almost three decades, remains bullish on the sector for this year.
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Two-dimensional supercrystals harvest solar energy efficiently to produce hydrogen
Mining News Pro - An international team of researchers has developed a two-dimensional supercrystal that generates hydrogen from formic acid with the help of sunlight.
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US steps up efforts to access Africa’s critical minerals
Mining News Pro - The US is stepping up efforts to boost ties with African nations rich in critical minerals to help secure supply, according to a government official.
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Deadly Peru mine is partner in Switzerland’s efforts to clean up gold supply
Mining News Pro - A gold mine in Peru where 27 workers died in a fire over the weekend is a partner of Swiss institutions in their effort to ensure responsible sourcing from informal miners in the Andean country.
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Increasing and stabilizing the efficiency of MSC’s hot rolling mill production line to 99 percent
Mining News Pro - Manager of hot rolling mill in Mobarakeh Steel company says that in this line, in addition to paying attention to production increment, the quality of the products has also been improved.
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New solution aims to effectively monitor tailings facilities from space
Mining News Pro - A new solution that uses satellites and earth observation coupled with ground sensors to monitor mine tailings facilities was recently launched by a Tokyo-based company and a London-based startup.
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The increase of production efficiency are on the agenda of the copper company
Ali Rostami, referring to the naming of this year in the field of copper as "smartening the copper industry", announced the Jihadi goal for a big leap in the copper industry.
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Environmentally friendly technology allows for efficient separation of REEs
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the US’s Idaho National Laboratory have taken a water treatment technology and adapted it for selectively separating rare earth elements and transition metals.
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‘Right material’ to efficiently remove mercury from water shows promising results
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Drexel University have found the right material to efficiently catch mercury —even at low levels— and clean up contaminated bodies of water.
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More flooding in Mexican mine frustrates rescue effort for 10 miners
Mining News Pro - Mexico’s efforts to save 10 miners who became trapped in a flooded coal mine 13 days ago hit another setback as underground water levels have surged higher, officials said on Monday.
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Microwaves efficiently extract manganese, zinc from spent batteries
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University are proposing the idea of a distributed recycling system that uses microwave heating for extracting metals from old alkaline batteries.
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Copper more effective than silver in killing covid virus
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum investigated ways to make copper and silver release even more ions than they normally would as a result of corrosion, a process that helps prevent the growth of bacteria or kill them completely.
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Metal electrolysis could support more efficient
Mining News Pro - By mapping what is happening at the atomic level behind a particularly promising approach called metal electrolysis, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are taking the first steps into future solutions that could usher in more efficient, eco-friendly processes for the production of lithium, iron and cobalt, as well as aid the development of metal-air batteries.
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EV parts maker Schaeffler signs first-of-a-kind European rare earth deal
Mining News Pro - German auto parts supplier Schaeffler has signed a raw materials deal to ensure the supply of rare earth magnets from Europe for its burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) motor business, an executive said.
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How plants support remediation efforts in areas affected by Fundão dam disaster
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the São Paulo Research Foundation are proposing a phytoremediation technique for the rehabilitation of water and soil contaminated by environmental disasters such as tailings dams breaches.
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Nickel price spike “purely financial” but Tsingshan effect could linger
Mining News Pro - After a chaotic couple of days that saw the price spiking 250% to a high of $101,365 a tonne, nickel trading remains suspended in London. The LME has announced it is unlikely to restart before Friday.
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Mexico’s Supreme Court issues draft decision declaring Almaden Minerals’ claims ineffective
Mining News Pro - Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered the Ministry of Economy (ME) to declare ineffective Almaden Minerals’ titles for its Ixtaca gold-silver project, located in the east-central state of Puebla.
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New discovery on liquid metal alloys may lead to high-efficiency electronics
Mining News Pro - A new paper in the journal Nature Synthesis presents the idea of a previously unidentified type of solidification pattern appearing on the surface of solidifying liquid metals.
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Financial spillover effect more intense between gold, silver
Mining News Pro - In a new paper published in the journal Applied Economics, an international team of researchers analyzed the portfolio risk characteristics and spillovers of precious metals commodities and equity markets across continents.
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The Effects of Illegal Mining on Lungs of Earth
Mining News Pro - Tropical rainforests are often called the “lungs of the planet” because they generally draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen.
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Benchmark iron ore to end 2021 with 12% plunge amid China climate efforts
Mining News Pro - China’s benchmark iron ore futures headed to their first annual decline in three, with a roller coaster year that saw prices hit record highs before nearly halving amid Beijing’s strict output curbs to meet climate change goals.
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New cell efficiently converts waste heat to energy
Mining News Pro - Scientists at Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology have designed a novel hybrid thermoelectrochemical-concentration cell that outperforms similar state-of-the-art devices and shows promise in utilizing waste heat to generate electricity.
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Sulfur, selenium self-healing insulator proves highly effective on steel
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Rice University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have developed a sulfur and selenium insulator that works as a surprisingly effective anticorrosive coating for steel.
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‘Ultimate’ anode for next-generation batteries closer to becoming more efficient
Mining News Pro - A recent study by researchers at Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology found that high concentration electrolyte (HCE) significantly improves Li+ ion transport at lower temperatures and thermal stability of solid-electrolyte interface at higher temperatures, thereby increasing the cycling performance of lithium metal batteries (LMBs).
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Silver-infused bacteria make fuel cells more efficient
Mining News Pro - A new study published in the journal Science describes the development of microbial fuel cells — a technology that utilizes natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to generate electrical currents.
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