Twisted aluminum mesh, banged-up bicycle frames and used car parts languishing in junk yards could gain new life as building structures such as door and window frames, facades, lighting and decorative features thanks to a new patent-pending technology developed at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

Monday, February 5, 2024 - 14:25:30

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Mining News Pro - Western Australia will overturn its 2021 Aboriginal cultural heritage protection laws, introduced after the destruction of the ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelters, in response to opposition from landowners, the state’s premier said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 22:06:57

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Mining News Pro - Monthly US steel scrap price outlook helps you to make sense of critical indicators impacting price movements, allowing you to forecast scrap prices one month ahead.

Saturday, December 17, 2022 - 13:39:42

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Mining News Pro - Copper scrap discounts in the United States were stuck in a holding pattern on Wednesday December 14, while brass prices consolidated recent gains amid rising prices on The Commodity Exchange

Saturday, December 17, 2022 - 13:32:08

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Mining News Pro - Peers including BHP (ASX: BHP) and Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) are in the midst of a transformation away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels in favour of minerals necessary in the low-carbon energy transition, such as copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt.

Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 10:50:28

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Mining News Pro - The company won’t develop the A$2 billion ($1.3 billion) Valeria project in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, it said Thursday. The site would have produced about 20 million tons of coal a year, and been a major source of global carbon dioxide over its 37-year lifetime.

Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 10:18:19

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Mining News Pro - A top-10 investor in South Africa’s Gold Fields on Friday urged the miner to cancel its planned takeover of Canada-based Yamana Gold, saying the $6.7 billion transaction was expensive and did not guarantee growth and profitability.

Sunday, June 12, 2022 - 11:11:23

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Mining News Pro - China, the world’s top steel producer, said on Monday that it aims to “significantly increase” mines’ iron ore production and boost utilisation of steel scrap, as part of a plan to develop a higher quality, greener ferrous industry.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 13:44:52

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Mining News Pro - Turkey has lifted a ban on importing scrap metal from Lebanon, the country’s trade minister said in comments reported by Lebanon’s National News Agency on Sunday.

Monday, February 7, 2022 - 13:07:35

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Mining News Pro - A proposal to annul water rights granted to Chile’s private sector over the past four decades was approved in an initial vote by an environmental committee as part of the process to draft a new constitution.

Friday, February 4, 2022 - 13:11:07

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Mining News Pro - Surging Chinese scrap copper imports that have doubled in the first half of 2021 are displacing to some extent refined cathode, concentrate, anode and blister imports, with analysis by Roskill predicting the situation to worsen and potentially cripple the copper price recovery.

Saturday, July 31, 2021 - 13:54:27

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Mining News Pro - The London Metal Exchange (LME) launched six new cash-settled futures contracts on Monday, including for battery metal lithium and aluminium scrap.

Monday, July 19, 2021 - 23:59:55

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Mining News Pro - Iron ore prices continued surging on Monday, propelled by recovering global steel demand.

Monday, July 12, 2021 - 23:09:55

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Mining News Pro - Shortages of copper and declining inventories could drive prices to levels beyond current record highs unless scrap supplies increase — scrap accounts for about a third of the roughly 30 million tonnes of annual global copper supplies.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - 23:30:53

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Mining News Pro - China’s imports of copper scrap surged over the first two months of 2021, jumping by 60% year-on-year to 191,720 tonnes.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 6:56:22 PM

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Mining News Pro - A report published by Wood Mackenzie this week states that since consumer and investor pressures asking for recycled content are starting to change the scrap metal market, demand for this material is expected to grow over the next two decades, with an additional 200 Mt per annum of steel scrap and 75 Mt per annum of aluminum used by 2040 compared to current demand.

Saturday, November 28, 2020 - 12:36:16 PM

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Mining News Pro - A scraper is a machine used to remove or move gravel, dirt and other harmful substances from the surface. Mining scrapers are used in industrial facilities and warehouses for material handling and transportation. The demand for mining scrapers depends on the growth of the mining industry. This equipment ensures optimal productivity and thus increases productivity.

Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 11:29:17 AM

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Mining News Pro - Copper prices rallied on Friday after predictions that Chinese imports of scrap metal are likely to fall by half, forcing the country to up cargoes of concentrate and unwrought copper, which are already at record levels.

Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 12:33:58 PM

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Mining News Pro - Australia’s Resolute Mining on Wednesday withdrew its production and costs guidance for 2020 after unionized workers at its Syama gold mine in Mali notified the company of a looming 10-day strike.

Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 10:46:24 PM

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Mining News Pro - Mining companies operating in Mexico are up in arms after the country’s government scrapped on Tuesday the mining sub-secretary post, one of the Ministry of Economy units, as part of a broader austerity drive.

Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 6:55:34 PM

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Mining News Pro - Chilean regulators have rejected lithium producer SQM’s $25 million environmental compliance plan for the Atacama salt flat, requesting the miner to start again from scratch, a filing showed.

Monday, August 3, 2020 - 8:01:22 PM

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Mining News Pro - Copper has gone from doom to boom in the space of a couple of months.

Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 6:19:40 PM

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Mining News Pro - Given limited domestic copper production, South Africa should prioritise the recycling of copper scrap to ensure there remains sufficient stock as the economy becomes more energy efficient and less reliant on fossil fuels, Copper Development Association Africa (CDAA) executive chairperson Evert Swanepoel has said.

Monday, July 13, 2020 - 11:53:09 AM

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Mining News Pro - China is dragging its feet in releasing new codes governing high-grade copper and aluminum scrap imports, leaving scrap metal firms abroad confused and without a clear way into their key market.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 5:11:10 PM

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Mining News Pro - Westpac plans to back out of thermal coal mining by 2030 in a move to fulfil the bank’s zero emissions targets.

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 12:54:21 PM

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