A unit of Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has applied to the Federal Court for a judicial review of the rejection of the proposed $800 million Grassy Mountain steelmaking coal mine.
As Congo’s cheap surface oxide ore is depleted, big miners are switching to underground sulphide sources, potentially giving the top 3 control of half the global supply of the battery metal.
Initial lab tests on Fenix ore demonstrated that the reusable IXOS polymer had better gold adsorption efficiency, ease of elusion and overall adsorption kinetics.