Новости за 21.07.2023

Integrated procurement and project management needs to be actively adopted by South Africa’s private and public sectors to ensure optimal return on investment, job creation, skills development, and improved service delivery, ECS Associates said on Friday in announcing its agreement with Anglo American Platinum to provide project management support to assist the platinum group metals mining company with the delivery of its extensive capital project pipeline. The agreement allows for staged implementation... Читать дальше...

Platinum continues to demonstrate its importance in medical applications, particularly in continuous glucose monitoring devices that enable people to manage their Type 1 and 2 diabetes in real-time. Researchers from Nanjing University, in China. are exploring more ways in which platinum-based applications could potentially assist with the management of diabetes.

Multotec has expanded its operation in Brazil with the opening of a manufacturing facility. This enables the company to bring its manufacturing capabilities closer to its customers in the country. Located in the city of Contagem, in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, the manufacturing facility is within close proximity of several iron-ore mines that require a range of mineral processing equipment for their plants.

The London Metal Exchange should reconsider a decision not to ban Russian aluminium from its warehouse network as large volumes are jeopardising the benchmark status of its aluminium contract, producer Norsk Hydro said in a letter this week. Russian aluminium amounted to 80% of available aluminium inventories in LME registered warehouses in June compared with 68% in May, 41% in January and less than 18% last October.

Diversified mining and marketing company Glencore expects this year’s marketing earnings to exceed the top end of its guidance range. The London- and Johannesburg-listed producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities, said on Friday that it expected adjusted marketing earnings before interest and tax to be in the $3.5-billion to $4-billion range, well above its $2.2-billion to $3.2-billion long-term guidance range.

Female participation in Australia’s science, technology, engineering and math- (STEM-) qualified jobs has increased by 15%, or four percentage points, in the decade to 2022, the federal government revealed this week. The 2023 STEM Equity Monitor, which tracks outcomes, pay, academic research funding and other workforce characteristics, found that over the 10 years to 2022, women qualified in non-STEM occupations rose by around 50% but for STEM industries that number only increased from 11% to 15%.

Junior Gold Mountain will raise A$2.25-million in a share placement to accelerate lithium exploration in Brazil. The company on Friday said it had received binding commitments for the placement of some 300-million new shares at an issue price of between 0.75c and 0.78c a share under its existing placement capacity.

Delegates to the UN-affiliated organization that regulates seabed mining cut a livestream of their negotiations Wednesday and retreated behind closed doors in an attempt to resolve a dilemma the could determine the fate of the deep ocean. The International Seabed Authority missed a deadline on July 9 to enact regulations to allow the mining of deep sea ecosystems for valuable metals used in electric car batteries. That means the Authority must accept license applications from mining companies. But the question of whether it must act... Читать дальше...

Bolivia's lithium resources are now estimated at 23 million metric tons, its president said on Thursday after government studies that further cement the South American country's position as the global leader in lithium resources. The new figure, reached after more than 66 wells were explored across the Coipasa and Pastos Grandes salt flats, compares with a previous estimate of 21-million metric tons.