Australian startup Sundrive creates world’s most efficient commercial-sized solar cell by replacing expensive silver with affordable copper during manufacturing. Efficiency is a big deal when it comes to solar and refers to the amount of power you generate based on the amount of sunlight coming in. A decade ago commercial-sized solar cells had an efficiency […]
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 […]
Carbon Neutral Copper Mines Start With Water
A new global Water Report outlining how copper mines can embrace sustainable water use to help meet a carbon free future was launched at South Australia’s “Copper To The World” Conference yesterday. Sponsored by copper miners Sandfire Resources and Anglo American, the International Copper Association Australia and the Global Copper Alliance, the report is part […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Aussie Copper Home Is Standout
Australian architectural studio Casey Brown Architecture has recently completed an unusual corrugated copper tiny home two hours from Sydney. “Permanent Camping 2” in the Berry countryside has a two-story tower structure clad in copper designed to withstand bushfires, gale-force winds and driving winds. The external sides to pen up the home to the outdoors, while […]
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 […]
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 […]
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