Hard on the heels of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference that attracted global attention, we’re doing our own bit to cut emissions. We’ve just launched the third deep tech research project—Materials Movement—as part of our ongoing Zero Emissions Copper Mine of the Future initiative. Materials Movement, which will start early next year, will take […]
The Aussie Weekend’s Back
Two years ago the Prime Minister famously called Labour’s embrace of electric cars ‘the end of the weekend’. But no longer. Mr Morrison recently unveiled a strategy to support 1.7M zero emissions vehicles on Australia’s roads by the end of the decade. Its been met with a lot of cynicism in the press, but if […]
Should Your Plumbing Go Online?
I must admit I used to be skeptical that people would embrace smart home plumbing, but no longer. One of the biggest changes is that costs have fallen dramatically, but the other is the range of products & ease of installation as a recent CNET article outlined. Nearly every part of your home’s plumbing can […]
Aussie Metals To Shine Says World’s Top Bank
The world’s top lender says Australia is likely to see a sixfold jump in demand for its metals, including copper, as zero emissions becomes globally critical. In particular the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said an expected 15% rise in the global metal price index will not only boost our yearly economic growth by 1%, but […]
Canada Transit Adds Antibacterial Copper Surfaces
I see Toronto is about to install copper coatings on high touch surfaces across its public transport system in an effort to cut the spread of infections. It’s a simple step to boost public health that other countries should also consider. The move by the Toronto Transit Commission & Translink follows a successful 4 week […]
Water Challenge Continues
It’s been a busy month since we launched the Water Report in Adelaide, the first instalment of the Zero Emission Copper Mine project. The Water Report is now up on the copper web site and is seeing steady traffic as all our key stakeholders in government & industry absorb its findings. We will be working with […]
Clean Mines, Clean World?
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 […]
“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 […]
Circular Copper Goes Round
A call by commodity research group Roskill last week for a lift in copper recycling globally was a worthy rallying cry, but will it make much difference? The company pointed to a report by the United Nations last year showing only 17% of end-of-life electronic scrap is recycled. At the same time a record […]
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 […]
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