Shelly Decker is helping to revitalise what she sees as a lack of skills amongst plumbing apprentices in her role as both a TAFE teacher and Victorian Building Authority registration examiner. Four years ago, she began organising inter TAFE plumbing competitions in Victoria to assist motivating & mentoring candidates for the international World Skills challenge. […]
Mapping Copper Risks
New study maps risks the mining industry must overcome to unlock new copper reserves. Australian researchers have identified a matrix of risks including environmental, social or governance that could impede future copper discoveries. University of Queensland geologist Professor Rick Valenta said copper would be crucial in a renewable-powered future, but global supplies were far from […]
OZ Minerals $1B Expansion
South Australian copper miner OZ Minerals plans to spend another billion dollars on expanding its Carrapateena underground mine. The investment is designed to help the company more than double copper production from the still under construction mine from 2026. The miner said it would progress its Carrapateena Block Cave Expansion to pre-feasibility and the Carrapateena […]
OZ Minerals A$1M Explorers Challenge
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 […]
Bone Disease Gets Copper Breakthrough
Irish researchers have developed a treatment for osteomyelitis that combines copper particles into an implant for bone repair. The new treatment has developed a one-step solution that kills bacteria and promotes bone growth without using antibiotics. It was achieved by combining copper particles with bioactive glass, a type of glass used for bone repair, that […]
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 […]
Teen Inventor Makes History
Macinley Butson may be young but her “copper armour’ to improve breast cancer treatment is just one of her inventions. Macinley Butson was still in school when she came up with the idea of a copper armour to help protect women undergoing cancer radiotherapy. Macinley found copper ‘scale maille’, a type of medieval armour, is […]
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, […]
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