March 4, 2021

Seafloor miner DeepGreen plans listing through SPAC merger

Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp will combine with DeepGreen in a $2.9bn deal.

March 4, 2021

Cyanide monitoring technology gets big funding in the US

CyanoGuard is a digital platform that enables rapid toxin detection and allows gold miners to reduce cyanide use by 15-20%.

March 3, 2021

Miners, OEMs launch Electric Mine Consortium

The Electric Mine Consortium’s goal is to accelerate progress towards the fully-electrified, zero-CO2 and zero-particulates mine.

March 2, 2021

Epiroc announces new approach for North American underground mining market

To drive the new strategy, Epiroc created the position of underground business manager for North America.

February 28, 2021

New sensor promises low-cost detection of methane emissions, leaks

The ICLED-based sensor is able to detect methane concentrations as low as 0.1 parts per million.

February 23, 2021

Graphene could be used to recover gold, silver from tailings

Sparc Technologies says its tailings treatment technology demonstrates significant recovery of precious metals.

February 22, 2021

Fatigue Science releases fatigue intervention tracking

Fatigue Intervention Tracking simplifies the task of recording interventions taken to ensure operator safety and performance.

February 21, 2021

New cell chemistry promises to make DIBs more powerful, sustainable

The new cell chemistry for dual-ion batteries uses a zinc anode and a natural graphite cathode in an aqueous electrolyte.

February 19, 2021

Germany launches fuel cell fabrication lab

ZSW’s HyFaB initiative received 10.5 million euros in funding and is aimed at accelerating the transition from small-scale to mass manufacturing of fuel cells.

February 19, 2021

China may ban rare earth technology exports on security concerns

The Chinese government is currently conducting a review of its rare-earths policy.