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.
February 18, 2021 Most miners lag behind in human rights issues — report Ten years after the adoption of United Nations principles, a study shows most miners have yet to step up efforts to improve their human rights record.
February 17, 2021 Gravity concentration breakthrough improves recovery, cuts downtime Knelson GX concentrating cone delivers a key breakthrough in performance that increases recovery and cuts maintenance downtime.
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