Chile’s top steel producer bets on green hydrogen
Chile’s top steel producer CAP is developing a green hydrogen pilot plant to decarbonize steel production at its unit in the south-central Talcahuano city, located about 500 km from capital…
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Newmont to study direct air carbon capture in its tailings
Newmont (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) has partnered with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to study a new approach for direct air sequestering of carbon in mine tailings. The…
JV Article: Stockholm Precision Tools unveils its new corporate identity
On Mar. 2, Stockholm Precision Tools (SPT) launched a new corporate identity to reflect its significant structural changes and its commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. The company,…
US rare earths miner to bypass China in supply deal with Sumitomo
U.S. rare earths producer MP Materials (NYSE: MP) has inked a deal with Sumitomo Corp. to supply the Japanese giant with some key elements, such as neodymium and praseodymium, helping the…
Automation & IoT Snapshot: Eight suppliers supporting Industry 4.0
Miners are looking to digitalization and automation to increase productivity and safety and lower costs. Here’s a look at some of the suppliers that are offering up crucial connectivity, equipment…
Vulcan Energy to mine 60% more German lithium than planned
Vulcan is now targeting 24,000 tonnes of lithium a year from its brine resource in Germany — 60% higher than its previous goal of 15,000 tonnes.
Cyber threats on the rise for resource industries
Mining companies continue to embrace digital technology to improve productivity and safety, and to make the most of insights made possible by big data and increasingly connected equipment and operations….
Video: BHP Xplor VP Sonia Scarselli on the accelerator’s first cohort
The Northern Miner recently sat down with BHP Xplor’s VP Sonia Scarselli to discuss the recent announcement of the accelerator program’s first cohort of companies. The seven companies selected will…
LBMA implements optical AI technology to trace gold bars’ provenance
The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) announced that it has added optical AI developer Alitheon to the pool of five companies that support the Gold Bar Integrity (GBI) initiative. The…
Billionaire-backed iron-air battery firm to start building factory within weeks
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are among investors who’ve raised US$800 million for a company developing a low-cost iron alternative for power grid storage which plans to begin…
Mining’s biggest future challenges will be meeting sustainability expectations – and adapting to the metaverse
We present the winner of the 2022 Northern Miner Scholarship, part of the Young Mining Professionals Scholarship Fund. Entrants were asked to write an essay outlining the mining industry’s biggest…
Albemarle to build US$180M lithium research centre in North Carolina
The world’s top lithium supplier Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) will invest at least US$180 million to build a new technology park in North Carolina, where it expects to advance its research in…