February 15, 2024 First commercial gravity storage for energy planned in Finnish mine Gravitricity has chosen the former Pyhäjärvi mine, Europe’s deepest copper-zinc mine, to deploy its technology.
February 15, 2024 Stanford researchers figure out how to reduce Li-metal battery degradation Resting is important – particularly for lithium-metal batteries.
February 15, 2024 Sibanye-Stillwater, Heraeus team up to save palladium The miners will explore new uses for PGMs, particularly palladium, in the hydrogen market amid weak demand for the metal.
February 14, 2024 Africa moves a step closer to continent’s first cobalt refinery Nigeria-based Africa Finance Corp. last week signed an expression of interest to provide $100 million in financing to the facility.
February 14, 2024 Four in custody over SSR gold mine landslide in Turkey Police and military teams, mine rescuers and volunteers, totalling more than 1,700 people, are looking for the missing workers.
February 13, 2024 BHP partners with Chile miners to battle cybersecurity risks The initiative, led by Corporación Alta Ley and supported by the Chilean Ministry of Mining, aims to generate and share cyber-intelligence information.
February 13, 2024 Fleet Space Technologies launches expert-in-residence program, appoints former BHP VP The first appointee to the XIR program is Keenan Jennings, former vice president of Metals Exploration at BHP.
February 13, 2024 British Columbia rare earth project testing makes 50% TREO concentrates with 80% recovery Defense Metals says metallurgical testing of samples from its Wicheeda project has shown a 50% total rate earth oxide concentrate can be made.
February 13, 2024 How to produce green steel from aluminum’s red mud Researchers have shown that green steel can be produced from aluminium production waste in a relatively simple way.
February 12, 2024 Scient launches Nova Scotia’s first cloud-based virtual drill core laboratory The project facilitates remote access to hyperspectral drill core imagery in the eastern Canadian province, impacting mineral exploration in the region.
Iran says potential energy, mining deals on table in talks with US Iran has threatened to strike US bases in the Middle East if it is attacked by US forces but on Sunday took a conciliatory line. February 15, 2026 | 09:34 am
