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Mining countries being helped to build critical mineral supply chains
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Ever greater global acknowledgement of need to decarbonise ever more urgently – Anglo
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3rd February 2023 Wind farm builder Seriti Green, which is planning substantial electricity storage capacity at its big renewable energy project in Mpumalanga, has raised the need for vanadium to be appraised as a battery storage metal of choice in Africa owing to the difficulties of sourcing lithium batteries.... →
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Proudly South African technology catches eye of fusion project researchers
3rd February 2023 Innovative Proudly South African membraneless technology has caught the eye of the engineers involved in the huge global ITER fusion project as a possible solution to recover tritium from tritiated water. The membraneless technology is the brainchild of Hydrox Holdings engineers, based in... →
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3rd February 2023 JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In the past, geopolitics was such that oil- and gas-rich countries developed faster, but now countries that are able to export their sunshine in the form of hydrogen will be the ones in the pound seats as the world transitions to clean, green energy. →
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3rd February 2023 India has opted for hydrogen fuel-cell heavy-duty mine truck mobility in a green initiative that will have platinum group metals (PGMs) miners applauding. This is because the clean emission-free power will come from proton exchange membrane PEM technology, which is PGM-enabled. →
Measures to contain diamond mine tailings breach complete – Petra
3rd February 2023 When the eastern wall of a tailings storage facility at the Williamson diamond mine, in Tanzania, was breached on November 7 last year, precautionary measures to contain the tailings material and strengthen the New Alamasi water dam were carried out at the operation which is owned 75% by... →
Time for South Africans to collaborate to solve the electricity crisis
3rd February 2023 South Africans need to put aside their electricity differences and work together to solve the electricity crisis. None of us can function without electricity and wasting time denouncing Eskom does nothing to increase power supply. Also, denying Eskom the money it needs to produce electricity... →
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