Lithium shortages could hand salt a starring role in EV shift
Mining News Pro - Carmakers who faced skyrocketing prices for lithium and other battery metals last year could increasingly adopt sodium-based cells in the future, helping to alleviate strains on raw materials as sales of electric vehicles surge, according to BloombergNEF.
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Great Salt Lake plants, insects absorb toxic metals from surrounding mines
Mining News Pro - A recent study by researchers at Utah State University found that plants in Great Salt Lake wetland ecosystems are able to pull hazardous metal pollution from the lake and sometimes pass it up the food chain.
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Legendary lithium riches from Bolivia’s salt flats may still just be a mirage
Mining News Pro - On Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, a vast white salt flat that feels almost otherworldly, Karina Quispe is watching from the sidelines a global resource race for the world’s largest – and almost untapped – trove of battery metal lithium.
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‘Salty’ freeze-thaw battery a step toward seasonal storage
Mining News Pro - Scientists at the US’ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a ‘freeze-thaw battery,’ designed for the electric grid that locks in energy for months without losing much storage capacity. It is considered a step toward batteries that can be used for seasonal storage.
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Geothermal brines in California’s Salton Sea could be future source of lithium in the US
Mining News Pro - A literature review prepared by Berkeley Lab scientists found that geothermal brines in the Salton Sea region of California are expected to be a major source of domestic lithium for the United States in the future but that significant technical challenges have to be overcome.
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Scientists propose new ‘salty,’ non-toxic gold extraction process
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Finland’s Aalto University published a paper in the journal Chemical Engineering where they describe a new scalable, non-toxic alternative to cyanide for gold extraction from ore.
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Salt Lake launches A$28m capital raise
Mining News Pro - Potash developer Salt Lake Potash will raise A$28-million through a share placement to enable the final debt drawdown and access to additional funding through a bank guarantee provided by financier Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI).
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Salt Lake begins commissioning of potash process plant
Mining News Pro - Salt Lake Potash has launched commissioning of Australia’s first sulphate of potash (SOP) processing plant at Wiluna in Western Australia ahead of first production later this year.
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Codelco to search for lithium at Chile’s second-largest salt flat
Mining News Pro - Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s no.1 copper producer, will go ahead with plans to explore for lithium at the Maricunga salt flat, the country’s second largest in terms of reserves, after receiving the approval from local environmental regulators.
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K+S sells Americas salt business for $3.2bn
Mining News Pro - German minerals company K+S Aktiengesellschaft has agreed to sell its Americas salt business to industrial holding company Stone Canyon Industries, Mark Demetree and affiliates for $3.2-billion.
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Salt Lake passes halfway mark of potash project
Mining News Pro - Salt Lake Potash has reached a 60 per cent completion at its Lake Way project in Western Australia, which is on track to deliver its first sulphate of potash (SOP) next year.
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BCI salt and potash project secures boost
Mining News Pro - BCI Minerals has received Australian Government backing for its Mardie salt and potash project in Western Australia.
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Green activists score victory over Atacama salt flats
Mining News Pro - Chile’s environmental regulator has withdrawn from its legal battle to defend a compliance plan by lithium miner SQM that it approved last year, according to a filing seen by Reuters, a decision that could prove a major setback as the miner seeks to ramp up output of the coveted battery metal.
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Chile judge calls for water study on ‘fragile’ lithium-rich Atacama salt flat
Mining News Pro - A top environmental judge in Chile renewed a call for a government-vetted water study to help stamp out lingering questions about sustainability that have cast a pall over Chile’s lithium-rich Salar de Atacama.
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Chile judge calls for water study on `fragile` lithium-rich Atacama salt flat
Mining News Pro - A top environmental judge in Chile renewed a call for a government-vetted water study to help stamp out lingering questions about sustainability that have cast a pall over Chile`s lithium-rich Salar de Atacama.
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Gold, platinum used in new material to generate hydrogen from salt, polluted water
Mining News Pro - Researchers from the Czech Republic and Russia have developed a new material that uses gold, platinum and chromium to generate hydrogen molecules from fresh, salt, and polluted water by exposure to infrared sunlight.
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Santos unveils salty plans for Narrabri
Mining News Pro - Oil and gas major Santos has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Natural Soda to use salt removed from produced water as part of the Narrabri gas project, in New South Wales.
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Kalium Lakes deploys Beyondie salt harvester
Mining News Pro - Kalium Lakes has commissioned a salt harvester as the company closes in on a 30,000 tonnes of sulphate of potash (SOP) milestone at the Beyondie SOP project in Western Australia.
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Salt Lake Potash selects GR Engineering for $107m Lake Way contract
Mining News Pro - Salt Lake Potash has awarded GR Engineering Services with two construction contracts for the Lake Way project in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.
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K+S to sell Americas salt business to slash debt
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German fertilizer producer K+S AG (ETR, FRA: SDF) said on Wednesday it was on track to sell its salt business in North and South America by the end of the year, a move that seeks to slash debt and allow the company to focus on potash fertilizer products.
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Top lithium miner seeks to monitor water scarcity in parched Chile salt flat
Mining News Pro - With residents and courts ringing the alarm about depleted water supplies in Chile’s Atacama salt flat, the world’s top lithium miner Albemarle (ALB.N) quietly filed a proposal in December for a network to monitor flows beneath the parched desert floor.
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Salt Lake secures more offtake for Lake Way
Mining News Pro - Potash developer Salt Lake Potash has inked a binding term sheet with chemical and fertilizer company HELM AG for 50 000 t/y of sulphate of potash (SOP) over a ten ytear period.
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Chile eyes state-backed lithium push in far-flung salt flats
Mining News Pro - Chile’s Atacama salt flat may get all the attention when it comes to lithium, but the South American nation is looking to develop two lesser-known deposits of the mineral needed to power a global push into electric cars.
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EcoMag targets $1bn in revenue from Dampier Salt wastewater
Mining News Pro - EcoMag has set its sights on producing magnesium carbonate using wastewater streams, or bitterns, from salt production in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
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The tourism plan of the salt village of Khor and Biabanak was opened
Mining News Pro - The village of Khor and Biabanak was opened at the presence of the chairman of the IMIDRO Chair.
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