Banks shying away from fossil fuels bolster private credit deals
Private credit managers are doing significantly more fossil-fuel deals now than just a few years ago, as they step into a void left by banks exiting assets they worry pose too big a climate risk.
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Copper price bounces as analysts see short covering fueling big gains
Copper extended a weekly gain, with some analysts predicting that the market could soon turn decisively higher as bearish investors are forced to unwind heavy bets against the metal viewed as a global economic bellwether.
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Gold riches fuel Sudan militia’s war to rule nation
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group is using large-scale proceeds from gold mining to fund its devastating war against the nation’s army, according to United Nations investigators.
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Replacing coal with biofuels in lime kilns not as ‘green’ as previously thought
The different chemical and physical properties of biofuels pose serious challenges to the idea of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from lime kilns, new research has found.
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Guinea Alumina Corporation offers Guinea its fuel berth, bulk storage for use after blast
Mining News Pro - Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), owned by major producer Emirates Global Aluminium, has offered the Guinea government the use of GAC’s fuel berth and bulk storage infrastructure to help deal with the aftermath of an oil terminal blast.
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Anglo American’s falling shares fuel takeover rumours
Mining News Pro - Speculation about Anglo American (LON: AAL) becoming the target of a takeover by a rival or a private equity firm keeps mounting, as shares in the diversified miner continue to fall.
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Green hydrogen, CO2 used to produce e-fuel for hard-to-electrify vehicles
Mining News Pro - An electro-fuel aimed at vehicles that are difficult to electrify has been produced from green hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
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Electric vehicles are fueling Indonesia’s green IPO boom
Mining News Pro - Indonesia isn’t exactly a stock trading hotbed. No other Southeast Asian country has a smaller market for equities relative to the size of its economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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India forges global biofuel alliance in push toward net-zero aim
Mining News Pro - India launched a global alliance for promoting biofuels adoption at the Group of 20 leaders meeting in New Delhi, aimed at reducing emissions in the transportation and industrial sectors.
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Renewables growth did not dent fossil fuel dominance in 2022
Mining News Pro - Global energy demand rose 1% last year and record renewables growth did nothing to shift the dominance of fossil fuels, which still accounted for 82% of supply, the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy report said on Monday.
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Billionaire Forrest calls Musk a ‘muppet’ over fuel cell doubts
Mining News Pro - Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire betting much of the fortune he made in iron-ore mining on green power, said doubters of hydrogen fuel-cell technology are “muppets.” That includes Elon Musk.
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Microbes help deal with uranium in groundwater, spent nuclear fuel repositories
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Sweden’s Linnaeus University described a previously unknown chemical process for the removal of uranium from groundwater.
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Platinum nanoclusters improve fuel cell performance
Mining News Pro - Recent findings by researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have the potential to serve as a guideline for the design of future high-activity, high-performance platinum catalysts for use in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs).
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BHP trials renewable fuel at Yandi iron ore operations in Western Australia
Mining News Pro - The world’s biggest miner, BHP said Thursday it is trialling the use of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) to help power mining equipment at its Yandi iron ore operations in Western Australia.
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Copper catalyst may be essential for production of solar fuels from sunlight, water
Mining News Pro - A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has gained new insights into how copper works as an electrocatalyst, a mechanism that uses energy from electrons to chemically transform molecules into different products.
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Albemarle calls for high lithium prices to fuel EV industry growth
Mining News Pro - Albemarle Corp on Tuesday called for lithium prices to remain high indefinitely in order to help the mining industry develop new sources of the electric vehicle (EV) battery metal and fuel the green energy transition.
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Albemarle calls for high lithium prices to fuel EV industry growth
Mining News Pro - Albemarle Corp on Tuesday called for lithium prices to remain high indefinitely in order to help the mining industry develop new sources of the electric vehicle (EV) battery metal and fuel the green energy transition.
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Canadian watchdog renews Cameco’s licence for nuclear fuel facility in Port Hope
Mining News Pro - Canada’s nuclear regulator said on Wednesday it has decided to renew Cameco Fuel Manufacturing’s licence for a nuclear fuel facility in Port Hope, Ontario for a 20-year period.
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Precious metals no longer needed in reactions to produce hydrogen fuel
Mining News Pro - In a paper published in the journal Science, the scientists explain that using only inexpensive raw materials they were able to create a scalable catalyst that needs only the power of light to convert ammonia into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.
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Asia coal price hits record as global hunt for fuel escalates
Mining News Pro - Thermal coal in Asia advanced to a record as a threat of supply disruptions adds new risks to a global energy sector already engulfed in crisis.
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Crypto mining can retire fossil fuels for good
Mining News Pro - Cryptocurrency mining using proof of work calculations is very energy-intensive, but it isn't the only option.
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EU’s Green Deal demands switch from fossil fuels to domestic metal production
Mining News Pro - In a recently published whitepaper, researchers from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities analyze the geopolitical context within which the European Union’s Green Deal is being advanced and conclude that the focus of the block’s energy transition should be on a switch from fossil fuels to metals.
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UN experts want better gold data as trade fuels Congo violence
Mining News Pro - Governments need to improve and make public their gold trade data to help stem smuggling and violence around mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations independent group of experts on Congo said in their annual report Friday.
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Russia is about to power Bitcoin mines with fossil fuel
Mining News Pro - One of the world's largest producers of carbon emissions, the Russian gas giant Gazprom aims to reduce its carbon footprint by providing its flare gas for Bitcoin mining.
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Iron ore price tumbles as covid curbs in China fuel demand concerns
Mining News Pro - The iron ore price plunged on Monday as stringent covid-19 restrictions prompted traders to be cautious and fuelled concerns over global demand.
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