Industry news

Denmark, the European Union’s biggest oil producer, is to stop offering new licenses in the North Sea and totally phase out production during 2050.

Siemens Gamesa is developing a pilot, the Brande Hydrogen project, to produce hydrogen directly from wind, and potentially connect to the grid.

Integrating photovoltaics (PV) into steel roofing can create ‘active buildings’ that generate, store and release their own power, says Professor Dave Worsley FIMMM, of the University of Swansea’s College of Engineering, UK, and recipient of this year’s IOM3 Bessemer Gold Medal from the Iron and Steel Society.

A treatment for acid mine drainage targets up to 95% recovery of critical minerals.

A water treatment system powered by soil microorganisms is being trialled in rural Brazil.

With printed carbon nanotubes and solution-deposited self-assembled monolayers, researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, are developing electronics that they say can operate autonomously.

Adding alkali metal additives to lithium battery electrolytes could boost efficiency and safety credentials.

A new technique to control the edges of 2D materials offers research opportunities

Nutritional, biomedical and clinical applications could benefit from a synthetic surface that mimics the human tongue.

A flexible film responds to stretching, pressure or humidity by changing colour.

Alba Mineral Resources plc has announced that underground drilling at Clogau-St David’s Gold Mine in Wales, UK, has identified a potential 550m extension to the main lode.

Adaptive and agile supply chains have characterised the mass-production of ventilators to meet the spike in demand due to COVID-19. A recent online event that explored what this could mean for future flexible supply chains.

Communities across the UK are being asked to consider housing a prototype fusion power plant.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) and Coal Authority have released maps which for the first time, reveal the extent to which heat is stored in Britain’s disused coal mines.

A new stainless steel and concrete bridge, the first of its kind in the UK, has opened to pedestrians and vehicles in Pooley Bridge, Cumbria.

Items in this journal issue consider BIF-hosted deposit unit differentiation using multivariate Gaussian processes on measure while drilling data, defining geologic domains using cluster analysis and indicator correlograms; and economic geology and genesis of kaolin resources in the East African Rift system and more.

Papers in this new journal issue include a look at a virtual monitoring method of operation conditions for mining and transporting equipment based on real-time data, safe exploitation of developed pillars of a coal seam above fire affected areas and a digital hierarchical model of lumpiness of blasted rock mass.

Containing papers regarding microwave fragmentation of a synthetic alundum-pyrite ore, a study of the kinetics of the magnesium leaching from serpentine bearing chromite overburden rocks for mineral carbonation and vanadium extraction from stone coal.

Containing papers relating to stress analysis, sintering, the effects of aging on microstructure and steelmaking processes.

Hedge fund manager Odey has today published a letter written to RioTinto’s board expressing concerns regarding the financing package surrounding Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.