Tag Archives: Mining
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What a Mali mine teaches us about the future of work
Tech has increased safety, efficiency and technical skills of employees at Mali’s Syama mining project, which can teach businesses valuable lessons about work in an automated age
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Cobalt: the dark side of a clean future
An estimated 35,000 children work in perilous conditions to extract cobalt from the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo. So what will the impact be on these exploited workers from rapid advances in electric cars, which are heavily reliant on this conflict mineral?
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Umicore: from smelter to urban miner
The turnaround of a Belgian materials company is an example of the need to change an entire business model
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How responsible mining can benefit economies
Mining has a major impact on the environment, but it also represents a valuable opportunity to benefit national economies and local communities
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Race is on for key element in EV batteries
Major market drivers are manoeuvring for pole position in the race for control of sought-after cobalt supplies
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Stakes are high mining for tech minerals
Not all miners are betting on cobalt and lithium as winners in the technological age – others favour copper, nickel, zinc and palladium
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Cleaning up mining for the sake of the planet
The mining industry is learning to adapt to a carbon-conscious world and play its part in combating global warming
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Could the Moon solve the Earth’s energy crisis?
Science fiction has a habit of becoming science fact and mining on the Moon, establishing a lunar colony even, could yet become reality