Mineral Resources are critical for supply of raw materials used renewable energy transformation
Australia’s government subsidizes the fossil fuel industry, emphasizing gas fields in its strategy despite environmental concerns. Critics argue this undermines emissions targets and misses potential royalty revenues. The policy supports export-focused gas development, risking public funds for decommissioning costs while contradicting net-zero ambitions and favoring fossil fuel interests.
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Australia gas strategy emphasizes new gas fields, causing concerns about climate goals due to rising emissions. Australia’s gas exports face a declining future, with major markets reducing demand and increased competition from the USA and Qatar. Thermal batteries may assist in industrial decarbonisation but the biggest threat is all countries are moving rapidly to reduce gas demand. Decommissioning liabilities heighten taxpayer risks.
Australian Gas Exports Will Crash Read More »
The molten oxide electrolysis process by Boston Metals has the opportunity to revolutionise steel refining. During the past decade, they have progressed from lab scale to millions of tonnes industrial process and would enable rapid decarbonisation of the steel industry.
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Red mud is a hazardous waste from aluminium production and research is underway to extract the steel from aluminium waste. Using waste product from the aluminium industry to produce valuable green steel is promising. Can it scale from lab scale to production in a timely manner – technically
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Green steel shouild be viewed as fast-to-abate not hard-to-abort as is generally viewed. Using renewable energy reduces emissions in all parts of the steel refinery emissions.
Green Steel Easy to Abate? Read More »
Agromining using hyperaccumulator plants would be a very profitable crop in the tropics. Research from University of Queensland shows promise from nickel.
Agromining Minerals from Plants Read More »
Steel accounts for 6% of global emissions. With a small number of iron ore miners and steel producers – what are technologies to de carbonise the industry?
Green Steel Technology and Costs Read More »
Making aluminum green is easy with renewable energy. While there are some more substantial technologies to make sure that aluminum is even lower emissions, an easy start is to contract for renewable energy and storage.
Green Aluminium is an Easy Technology Read More »
With the exit of coal mines, use of green hydrogen and renewable energy for steel making, and full deployment will the number of mines crash?
Mine Numbers Collapse by 2040 by 70% Read More »
Direct lithium extraction is used in land based brines by a number of companies, but the vision is that the ocean has huge quantities, or could be extracted as part of desalination.
Lithium From Seawater Demonstrated Read More »
With established miners extracting lithium, who will be some of the up and coming miners. Here are 8 of them. There are another 150 miners globally.
Top 8 Lithium Miners by 2024 Read More »
Copper is widely used whereever electricity needs transportation. From electronics to motors. The change from ICE cars to EVs increases the demand in that sector by 4 times.
Copper Demand with Renewable Energy Increasing Read More »
Platium, palladium and other PGM are used in catalytic converters and others are in renewable energy systems. With most of the supply from South Africa and Russian, Australian miners are keen to supply.
Platinum Group Metals PGM or PGE Read More »
When you dig into the supposed shortfall of lithium for EV and grid energy industry, it is clear that there is enough lithium to meet the demand although it will take time to come on stream.
Enough Lithium Supply to meet Demand Read More »
What is FMG ulitimate goal? To change his low cost iron ore exports to China and turn it into green steel manufactured in Australia and exported globally? The company has been busy setting up deals and purchasing technology.
Green Steel From Fortescue Minerals Read More »
Direct Lithium extraction (DLE) provides faster extraction of lithium from brines, reduction of costs, increased recovery and opportunity for reduction in energy and carbon inputs.
Direct Lithium Extraction Read More »
Lithium from Chile, Argentina and Bolivia makes up 20% of the current supply, with China and Australia the majority of the rest. Intense exploration and extraction is in full swing.
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EV production in China is booming with multiple “Gigafactories”, and the battery market is racing to keep up with demand and supply. China will get to 20% of EV new car sales by the end of 2021 4 years ahead of 2025. Six battery companies provide 47% of the global demand for batteres.
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It takes 2 years to build a battery gigafactory. But it takes 7 or more years to develop a mine. While there is plenty of lithium on the planet, it isn’t being extracted and refined quickly enough to keep up with the rapidly growing demand for batteries.
Lithium Shortfall for GigaFactories Read More »
Rare earth elements are a critical part of the renewable energy industry as well as in the past for catalysts and industrial products. We explore what they are, and where they can be found.
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