Recently Bernstein, a research company, estimated that the world’s offshore wind capacity could hit 254 Giga Watts by 2030, seven times what it is today. That is world changing. Already many developed and developing countries, including Australia, are announcing new projects, some of them absolutely massive with towering, high tech turbines. The cost of wind […]
“Copper to the World” Highlights Sustainability & Innovation
South Australia’s Copper to the World returns on 31 August, showcasing the state’s key mining initiatives alongside the latest developments on industry sustainability and innovation. Presented live at the Adelaide Convention Centre and simultaneously live-streamed to viewers around the world, the conference will once again offer expert insight on all the issues facing copper mining. […]
Finding Ancient Copper For A Clean Future
The University of New South Wales is using geology and Artificial Intelligence to create a virtual model of the Earth to reveal deposits of copper for a world that needs it more than ever. The International Energy Agency, as well as global financial giants Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg have all recently signalled a looming global […]
Adelaide Company Thrives In Copper Niche
South Australian specialised copper tubing and cable company Key Tubing & Electrical—KTE for short—is seeing global orders rising as new Australian markets also open up says local news site InDaily. KTE makes niche wiring components for a range of industries including caravan, food and beverage, air conditioning, electrical, healthcare and mining. But Covid19 saw a […]
“Green Copper” Fuels Brave New World
Fitch Solutions has put copper on its “Commodities of the Future” Index, saying that the world’s ‘green transition’ will mean “a surge in demand over 2021-2030”. Demand for copper will come from three broad categories of building construction, infrastructure and manufacturing, but Fitch says that green copper demand will increasingly come from the energy and automotive sectors. They […]
The Copper Supply Crisis
The CRU Group just told an international seminar that copper supply is facing a nearly 6M tonne shortfall. Filling it, they say, will be tough. Erik Heimlich, principal copper analyst at CRU Group, told the June Navigating the Green Revolution in Base Metals seminar, the world will see the supply gap opening up from the […]
Copper Shines In South Australia Mining Boom
South Australia’s mineral resource production for the 2020 calendar year breached the $7B mark, up from $6.9B in 2019, and the second-highest year on record behind the $7.312B produced in 2014. According to the LEAD newspaper, Copper continued to be the state’s largest contributor in 2020 with $2.429B worth of production. “This included $1.35B […]
Unlocking Copper In Mine Waste
43 million tonnes of copper has been mined but never processed over the last decade, trapped in mine waste from Australia to America. But that might be about to change. The lost copper has been too difficult to extract using conventional mining methods, but if extracted could help overcome a looming shortage as the world […]
Mining Water Technologies
Two years ago consultancy group Wood Mackenzie predicted copper demand would keep rising, warning that water use at mines would also soar, with all the costs and problems that entails. It’s the sort of threat that is urging mines right around the world to find more sustainable, efficient ways to use water. And it’s the […]
No Digging Copper Mines?
I keep getting amazed at the innovation I’m seeing around copper these days, with a recent breakthrough boosting efforts to rethink conventional mining. A new “key-hole surgery” method to extract copper from the earth without first digging it up could be revolutionary by not being actually groundbreaking. It speaks to the power of smart partnerships […]
Striking Copper Tower For Russia
World renowned architects Foster + Partners have designed a “copper tower” in the city of Yekaterinburg for the Russian Copper Company (RCC), one of the country’s biggest copper mining companies. Overlooking the Iset River in the centre of the city in central Russia, the 15-storey office block will be RCC’s headquarters and the first completed […]
Newmont launches Robot Trucks
Gold and copper miner Newmont has started production use of an autonomous haul truck fleet at its Boddington in Western Australia. Newmont said it is the first gold mining company to use autonomous haulage system (AHS) technology in an open pit mine. The announcement comes as the company said it had hit a milestone in […]
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