The looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it

S&P Global warns copper shortfall could put brakes on energy transition | Continue reading


@mining.com | 1 year ago

Vanishing LME shadow stocks add to metals market turmoil

Exchange stocks of aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin, and zinc haven't been this low since the last century, writes Andy Home. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Carmakers will “need to become miners”

Even if every lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite green and brownfield project in the pipeline comes on stream “there will not be enough” raw material going into 2030. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

$5B hoard of metal the world wants but can’t have

Experts say a raw aluminum stockpile in Vietnam is the biggest they have ever seen. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Liquid metal helps convert CO2 into battery, manufacturing resources

MANILA, Philippines A local energy corporation has proposed the construction of a P12-billion coal-fired power plant in Zamboanga City to prevent massive power outages in Mindanao by 2014. The proposal of the San Ramon Power Corporation, a subsidiary of | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Gallium helps convert CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen

A group of scientists discovered that liquid gallium can help transform carbon dioxide into oxygen and a high-value solid carbon product. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Discovery may give solar cells 1k% more power

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can grow by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate and calcium titanate. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Super material discovered in error could be key for batteries, fuel cells

A silver-charged super material was discovered by mistake. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Heap Leach: Mining's breakthrough technology

New techniques for tailings treatment and sulfide ore recovery will see low-cost environmentally friendly heap leaching take another giant leap forward. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

Saudi Arabia-based researchers employed an electrochemical cell containing a ceramic membrane to extract lithium from seawater. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 2 years ago

Caught between rare earths and Chinese dominance

Investigating how China built its multi-commodity monopolies across the technological spectrum. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 3 years ago

NASA finds rare metal asteroid worth more than global economy

The heavy-metal object, called “16 Psyche”, is worth $10,000 quadrillion. That's 70,000 times the world's economy. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 3 years ago

Nano-diamond battery that lasts for 28k years closer to commercialization

US startup NDB announced that the proof of concept of its nano-diamond battery achieved a breakthrough 40% charge. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 3 years ago

US steps up efforts to limit China’s control of critical minerals

Washington has expanded an initiative to promote mining of lithium, cobalt and other minerals in resource-rich countries. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 4 years ago

Gold price surges to record high in 73 currencies

Including all-time peaks in pound sterling, Canadian, Australian dollar and a USD six-year high in New York on Friday. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 4 years ago

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@wiki-mining.com | 5 years ago

Companies challenged engineers to find uses for copper-graphene nanocomposite

Sixty-five engineers from 15 countries came up with ideas. | Continue reading


@mining.com | 5 years ago