OZ Minerals and energy and resources open innovation platform, Unearthed, are launching the A$1M Explorer Challenge. This unique, online crowdsourcing competition calls for geologists and data scientists from across the globe to develop ground-breaking approaches to discover new exploration targets at a site near OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill copper- gold mine in South Australia. With […]
Tokyo’s Recycled Olympic Medals
Tokyo 2020 promises to break Olympic & Paralympic records, but recycling old gadgets into medals may be its best idea. Organisers of next year’s Summer Olympics say they want to forge all winning athletes’ medals from recycled electronics waste, or eWaste. Consisting of discarded and obsolete electronic devices it includes smartphones, digital cameras, handheld games […]
Levi’s Get Copper Edge
World famous denim company Levi’s has gone wearable tech with a copper infused jacket. Two global companies-Levis and Google-have teamed up to produce a denim jacket that can keep its wearer connected to the digital world with just a few gestures. Levis Commuter™ Trucker jacket is the first to use Google’s Jacquard technology. Copper wire […]
Electric Cars Drive U.S. Copper Boom
A new Nevada mine is 1st in U.S. in a decade as investment & mine expansions lift copper production to supply electric car demands. Four U.S. copper projects are set to open by next year, with several mine expansions also underway across the country. U.S. copper deposits-the world’s fifth-largest copper reserves-have also drawn more than […]
Copper Breakthrough For Motor Neurone Disease
New copper-delivery drug CuATSM slowed progression of the disease by about 70 percent. Australian researchers have developed a groundbreaking drug with promise of treating the debilitating and fatal motor neurone disease, not just the symptoms. Participants had improved lung function and cognition and a reduction in the decline of their motor disability. The results of a […]
Architecture’s Original Bling
Copper facades have never been in more demand in cities all over the world and that’s good news for green buildings. Innovative, lightweight and 100% recycled, copper is today’s sustainable building material. Its versatility is key as it gets used for everything from walls to roofs, interiors, stairs, gutters and high tech solutions. But it’s […]
Blowing In The Wind
That might be a catchy 60’s song predicting changing times, but it’s just as relevant to Australia’s energy situation today. Wind backed electricity is already the “cheapest source of large-scale renewable energy” says the Clean Energy Council. Which is why the private sector is jumping on the trend. 7 wind farms started up last year, […]
South Australia’s 2nd Copper Coming
BHP Group has unearthed a major new copper find in South Australia and that could put the state on a path to a “copper renaissance”. BHP has revealed a large iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposit on the Stuart Shelf, 65 kilometres southeast of Olympic Dam-already the world’s third largest copper equivalent deposit. In an […]
A Copper Bullet For Tuberculosis?
A new copper backed antibiotic shows promise in finding and killing tuberculosis bacteria where they hide. A new breakthrough from scientists at the University of Connecticut-UConn-promises to tackle TB bacteria hiding from antibiotics in the immune cells that are supposed to kill them. Tuberculosis is the number one cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. […]
Lets Stop Wasting Copper
Copper & technology are great partners, but what we do with all those old gadgets-and the copper in them-is a tough challenge. Till now. In fact Australia is at the cutting edge of what’s being called urban mining. New breakthroughs in Sydney & Melbourne suggest we could now harvest copper-and a lot of other valuable […]
One Step Copper?
Copper miners have long been on a quest to find cleaner & greener ways to process ore as its dug up. And it just got a lot closer I’m happy to say. A ‘one step’ processing breakthrough using electricity could soon produce high-purity copper from sulfide mineral ore, the main source of copper. The molten […]
Lean, Green Aussie Copper
South Australia is shaping up as the country’s leader when it comes to copper mining innovation. And I’m not just saying that because I grew up there. It’s now the country’s biggest copper producer, but is also pursuing all sorts of new technologies when it comes to how the industry finds, extracts and processes the […]
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