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PGM PROJECTS: Darwendale platinum project set for next year

Construction work on Great Dyke Investments (GDI)’s Darwendale platinum development project will start in the second quarter of 2020, a senior official with one of the major shareholders, Russia’s Vi Holdings, has said. Vi Holdings, through its JSC Afromet subsidiary, owns half the shares in GDI, while Zimbabwe’s Landela Mining Venture (Pvt) Ltd owns the rest.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Water restrictions hit PGM belt

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's platinum producers have been asked to reduce water usage, following restrictions that were implemented by the Rustenburg Municipality in the North West this month.

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Boosting EV growth in India: Missing pieces in the policy puzzle

A series of government policies in India have signaled a certain readiness to press forward with the vehicle-electrification agenda. But when shareholders of one of the most prominent electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in the country, Mahindra & Mahindra, are not even aware of the company’s EV products, progress appears uneven, at best.

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BATTERY RECYCLING: American Manganese receives initial lithium-ion battery recycling test results

The test results produced high-quality nickel-cobalt hydroxide from our initial tests of tier-one NCA cathode scrap.

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Indonesia Will Trade Its Nickel Riches for an Electric-Car Industry

Indonesia is dangling the world's largest trove of nickel, a crucial metal for making electric cars perform better, to lure the auto industry into spending billions of dollars to transform the islands into a hub for the technology.

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EMISSIONS: GM, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler back Trump on California emissions challenge

  • Date: 28-10-19
  • Category: EMISSIONS
  • Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major automakers are siding with the Trump administration in its bid to bar California from setting its own fuel efficiency rules or zero-emission requirements for vehicles, the companies said in a filing with a U.S. appeals court late on Monday.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Is Eskom turning to solar?

  • Date: 28-10-19
  • Category: ESKOM
  • Source: PV Magazine

The South African utility has issued a 20-strong tender for 50 kW solar inverters and mounting structures, to be used in four power plants. Although it is unclear whether the tender marks the energy company’s first step into solar energy, the procurement follows the recent publication of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan. Eskom is reportedly developing a renewables-linked large scale storage project which may explain the need for inverters.

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LITHIUM: New lithium extraction process could revolutionise energy storage

  • Date: 28-10-19
  • Category: LITHIUM
  • Source: The Chemical Engineer

ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process using metal organic framework (MOF) membranes to extract lithium from brines, which is a faster, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly method than conventional processes.

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