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Talga grows graphite resource in Sweden
By: Esmarie Iannucci 27th May 2022 ASX-listed Talga has reported a 54% increase in the resource estimate for its Vittangi graphite project, in Sweden, adding more than 10-million tonnes to Europe’s largest graphite resource. The Vittangi project is now estimated to host a mineral resource of some 30.1-million tonnes of graphite... →
POSCO Chemical plans to invest in $633m battery materials plant with GM
By: Reuters 27th May 2022 South Korea's POSCO Chemical said on Friday it plans to invest in a $633-million battery cathode materials plant in Canada with U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM). The South Korean materials maker said in a regulatory filing that it plans to invest $278-million through September 2024 on the... →
Sayona raises A$190m for NAL's start in 2023
By: Esmarie Iannucci 27th May 2022 Lithium developer Sayona Mining on Friday announced a successful A$190-million institutional placement to fund the 2023 restart of its North American Lithium (NAL) operations in Québec. Sayona told shareholders that it had received firm commitments for the placement of more than one-billion... →
Botswana mining sector on the rebound
By: Halima Frost 27th May 2022 The Botswana mining sector is on the rebound, following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the sustained period of subdued commodities prices from 2015 to 2019, industry organisation Botswana Chamber of Mines CEO Charles Siwawa tells Mining Weekly. He adds that the rebound can be... →
JV stalls, but still on offer
27th May 2022 Diamond exploration company Botswana Diamonds (BOD) announced earlier this month that, despite intensive advanced and ongoing discussions with interested parties, the board has been unable to secure a new joint venture (JV) partner to acquire the Ghaghoo mine, in Botswana before the extended... →
South Africa must reform its regulatory environment, make itself investor-friendly – simple 
By: Martin Creamer 26th May 2022 South Africa must reform its regulatory environment and make itself investor-friendly – simple. That is the straight-forward view of Dr Mathews Phosa, who was speaking to Mining Weekly in his capacity as the non-executive vice-chairperson of the high-flying Jubilee Metals Group plc, a London Aim-... →
The trouble with lithium
By: Bloomberg 26th May 2022 Elon Musk wants to mine it, China is scouring Tibet for it, battery makers are crying out for it. Lithium, the wonder metal at the heart of the global shift to electric cars, is in a full-blown crisis. Demand has outstripped supply, pushing prices up almost 500% in a year and hindering the... →
Hydrogen can be stored in existing fossil fuel infrastructure for years, world webinar hears
By: Martin Creamer 26th May 2022 Hydrogen can be stored in existing fossil fuel infrastructure for years if need be, giving it the potential to become a universal energy carrier in the same way as oil is now but without the environmental impact, World Hydrogen Leaders webinar heard this week. Allowing hydrogen to make use of... →
Australian Vanadium inks renewable MoU
By: Esmarie Iannucci 26th May 2022 ASX-listed Australian Vanadium has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with renewable energy developer North Harbour Clean Energy (NHCE) for the potential development of energy storage projects. Through its subsidiary VSUN Energy, Australian Vanadium help to facilitate development of... →
Platinum-boosted South African hydrogen electrolyser leaps ahead
By: Martin Creamer 25th May 2022 The proof-of-concept of the platinum group metals-boosted advanced alkaline electrolyser – the AAE – has been successfully completed by Hydrox Holdings of Randburg in a pioneering achievement that offers the potential for South Africa to enter the fray as world demand for hydrogen electrolysers... →
Suvo finds offtake partner
By: Esmarie Iannucci 25th May 2022 Kaolin producer Suvo Strategic Minerals has struck a non-binding agreement with supply chain services provider C&D Logistics Group over a possible offtake agreement. Under the terms of a non-binding cooperation agreement, the two companies would work to negotiate a sales and purchase agreement... →
Glencore settles most bribery, manipulation investigations
By: Martin Creamer 25th May 2022 Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore on Wednesday announced the settlement of most of its bribery and market manipulation investigations. This follows almost four years of investigations and a serious environmental social and governance (ESG) overhang over the group, →
Britishvolt CIO appointed as nonexec director of Eastinco
By: Darren Parker 24th May 2022 Eastinco Mining and Exploration, an exploration and development company with a portfolio of Africa-focused critical and strategic metal assets, has announced its intention to appoint gigaplant developer Britishvolt CIO Kasra Pezeshki to the board as a nonexecutive director of the company, which... →
Legendary lithium riches from Bolivia's salt flats may still just be a mirage
By: Reuters 24th May 2022 On Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that feels almost otherworldly, Karina Quispe is watching from the sidelines a global resource race for the world's largest - and almost untapped - trove of battery metal lithium. Her village on the edge of the salar - from where most of the... →
Lithium pilot plant in Namibia scheduled for this year – AfriTin
By: Martin Creamer 24th May 2022 An engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contractor has been appointed to design and construct a lithium pilot processing plant at the Uis mine in Namibia, technology metals mining company AfriTin Mining stated on Tuesday. This follows metallurgical test work results of the... →
Rafaella sharpens focus on Canada
By: Esmarie Iannucci 24th May 2022 ASX-listed Rafaella Resources has shifted its focus to battery minerals exploration in Canada, announcing the acquisition of a second battery metals project in the region, adjacent to its existing Midrim and Laforce platinum group metal (PGM)/nickel/copper sulphide assets. The company has inked... →
Sevenfold increase in yearly clean hydrogen needed to hit 2050 net-zero target 
By: Martin Creamer 23rd May 2022 Annual production of clean hydrogen would need to increase more than sevenfold for the world to hit net zero in 2050, say the leading founders of McKinsey & Company’s platform for climate technologies, Bernd Heid of Cologne, Martin Linder of Munich, and Mark Patel of San Francisco, who add that... →
One mine auction draws 3 448 bids amid scramble for lithium
By: Bloomberg 23rd May 2022 An auction for a controlling stake in a Chinese lithium mine has garnered 3 448 bids, underscoring the scramble to secure the battery metal that’s key to the clean-energy transition. The 54.3% stake in Yajiang Snowway Mining Development, which owns the mine in Sichuan, a southwestern province in... →
Energy Fuels buys Brazil heavy mineral sands project
By: Creamer Media Reporter 23rd May 2022 NYSE American- and TSX-listed Energy Fuels has entered into an agreement to acquire 17 mineral concessions, which has significant quantities of heavy minerals, including monazite, in Brazil. The company states that the Bahia project is a well-known heavy mineral sands deposit with more than 3... →
European Lithium makes a play for Avebury
By: Esmarie Iannucci 23rd May 2022 ASX-listed European Lithium has thrown a potential A$125-million spanner in fellow listed Mallee Resources’ plans to acquire the Avebury nickel sulphide project, in Tasmania. Mallee earlier this year unveiled a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) to acquire Allegiance Mining, which has gone into... →
Quantum signs offtake deal at Uley 2
By: Esmarie Iannucci 23rd May 2022 ASX-listed Quantum Graphite has inked an offtake agreement for all of the flake graphite produced at its Uley 2, Stage 1 project, in South Australia. The company on Monday announced that it had signed a binding offtake agreement with Swiss-based global metal and minerals trading group MRI... →
Sayona's PFS for NAL proves up
By: Esmarie Iannucci 23rd May 2022 A prefeasibility study (PFS) into the North American Lithium (NAL) operations, in Quebec, has confirmed the viability of a 1.5-million tonne a year operation, delivering 4.4-million tonnes of spodumene concentrate over a mine life of 27 years. ASX-listed Sayona Mining on Monday told shareholders... →
SAIMM positioning industry for next-gen metals with upcoming PGMs conference
By: Simone Liedtke 23rd May 2022 In positioning itself for the next generation of precious metals - such as palladium, rhodium, iridium, and others - which fulfill catalytic roles, the eighth iteration of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s (SAIMM’s) Platinum-Group Metals (PGMs) Conference is looking to... →
Snow Lake Lithium calls for comprehensive EV ecosystem across North America
By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th May 2022 Canadian lithium producer Snow Lake Lithium has outlined the need to create a comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem across North America to protect the future of the region's domestic automotive industry. With more than ten-million vehicles sold in the US last year, the automotive... →
Peru fails yet again to broker truce allowing MMG's Las Bambas mine restart
By: Reuters 20th May 2022 Peru's prime minister on Thursday failed to broker a deal with indigenous communities to allow for the restart of operations at MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper mine, the government's fourth failed negotiation attempt. Chinese-owned Las Bambas is one of the world's largest copper mines, accounting... →
Develop completes Woodlawn purchase
By: Esmarie Iannucci 20th May 2022 ASX-listed Develop has completed the A$100-million acquisition of the Woodlawn zinc/copper project, in New South Wales. Develop on Friday announced it had completed the purchase of all shares in Heron Resources, under the terms of a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) and orders of the Supreme... →
IGO produces first lithium at Kwinana
By: Esmarie Iannucci 20th May 2022 ASX-listed Independence Group (IGO) on Friday announced the first production of battery grade lithium from its Kwinana lithium hydroxide refinery, in Western Australia. The first production represented an important milestone for the lithium joint venture (JV) between IGO and its partner Tianqi... →
Critical mineral demand of order of magnitude never seen – Sheila Khama
By: Martin Creamer 19th May 2022 "My genuine sense is that we are going to see a growth in the mining sector of an order of magnitude we haven't seen. I also think that we're going to find that the need for minerals is going to force the world to think that if we can't get minerals on our shore, where else do we get them from? →
In Chile's Atacama, lithium mining stirs fight over flamingos
By: Reuters 19th May 2022 On the white plains of Chile's lithium-rich Atacama desert, bright pink flamingos enliven the sprawling salt flats where sporadic blue pools provide much needed hydration. But flamingo numbers are falling, with a new study linking this to the water extracted by mining firms to pump up brine... →
Europe gives another lofty boost to green hydrogen, electrolyser targets
By: Martin Creamer 19th May 2022 The European Commission this week took firm steps to again boost green hydrogen production and electrolyser manufacture amid sharply rising consumption targets. The commission’s latest RePowerEU proposals include the raising of its 2030 renewable hydrogen consumption targets for industry to 75%,... →
Manganese mine rail-loading boost being assessed by South32
By: Martin Creamer 19th May 2022 Diversified mining company South32 is assessing the potential expansion and modernisation of rail loading infrastructure at its Wessels manganese mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape, says South32 CEO Graham Kerr. Kerr, who presented at the Bank of America Global Metals, Mining & Steel Conference... →
Bannerman takes a slice of Namibian rare earths
By: Esmarie Iannucci 19th May 2022 ASX, NSX and OTCQB-listed Bannerman Energy has struck a deal to acquire 41.8% shareholding in TSX-V listed critical minerals explorer Namibia Critical Metals Inc (NMI). NMI’s flagship asset is the 95%-owned, advanced and fully permitted Lofdal heavy rare earths project in Namibia, which is the... →
Rio agrees to Turquoise Hill funding amendments
By: Esmarie Iannucci 19th May 2022 Major Rio Tinto has agreed to amend a funding plan with Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ) in order to provide liquidity of up to $400-million in short-term early advances, while TRQ evaluates a takeover offer from the mining giant. A Special Committee of TRQ is currently evaluating Rio’s C$34 per... →
Collaboration needed to make South African mining globally competitive again – CSIR
By: Martin Creamer 18th May 2022 Concern about mineral resource scarcity is widespread and, at the same time, many countries, such as Australia, Canada and China, are investing significantly in strengthening their mining-related research, development and innovation (RDI) capabilities. “This makes cost and differentiation... →
Critical Elements produces battery grade lithium hydroxide
By: Creamer Media Reporter 18th May 2022 TSX-V-listed Critical Elements Lithium has successfully produced battery-grade lithium hydroxide in a pilot plant programme, converting spodumene concentrate from the Rose project, in Quebec, into battery grade lithium hydroxide using a thermal leaching process. The pilot plant conversion... →
WA invests more into mining research
By: Esmarie Iannucci 18th May 2022 The Western Australian government has pledged a further A$6-million in funding over the next four years to the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA) to enable it to progress research for the mining industry. In addition to the work already underway on the Net Zero Emission... →
Caterpillar eyes energy transition as growth driver for mining business
By: Reuters 18th May 2022 Construction equipment maker Caterpillar believes demand for critical minerals as the clean energy transition gathers pace will translate to solid returns for its mining business, CEO Jim Umpleby said in an interview on Tuesday. The company is aiming at a global market worth about $5-trillion for... →
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