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PGM PROJECTS: Platreef mine development work now focused on equipping recently-completed Shaft 1 for first production

  • Date: 23-07-20
  • Category: PGM PROJECTS
  • Source: Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines’ Co-Chairmen Robert Friedland and Yufeng “Miles” Sun announced today that the company’s South African subsidiary, Ivanplats, has completed construction of the 996-metre-level station at the bottom of the project’s Shaft 1 – well ahead of the contractual schedule. Shaft 1 now is positioned to be equipped as Platreef’s initial production shaft, if Ivanhoe chooses to proceed with phased development to expedite production at the tier-one palladium-platinum-nickel-copper-rhodium-gold project on the Northern Limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Complex.

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HYDROGEN: Hydrogen investing is a lottery worth playing

  • Date: 23-07-20
  • Category: HYDROGEN
  • Source: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Hydrogen is the energy buzzword of the moment. The chemical element could play a key role in the global push to produce carbon-free energy. That appeal is already evident in the toppy valuations of some of the industry’s main participants. Yet it’s still a lottery worth playing.

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HYDROGEN: Linde Signs MoU with CNOOC to Jointly Develop China's Hydrogen Energy Industry

  • Date: 23-07-20
  • Category: HYDROGEN
  • Source: Linde

Guildford, UK, July 23, 2020 - Linde (NYSE: LIN; FWB: LIN) announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) subsidiary, CNOOC Energy Technology & Services, to jointly develop the hydrogen energy industry in China. Together, both companies will explore the option to invest in hydrogen production and filling facilities, and further the use of hydrogen in industrial applications, particularly mobility.

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EMISSIONS: PM commits £350 million to fuel green recovery

  • Date: 22-07-20
  • Category: EMISSIONS
  • Source: UK government

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces £350 million is being made available to cut emissions in heavy industry and drive economic recovery from coronavirus.

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HYDROGEN: Eversholt Rail and Alstom invest a further £1 million in Breeze hydrogen train programme

  • Date: 22-07-20
  • Category: HYDROGEN
  • Source: Alstom

Widnes, 22 July 2020 - Eversholt Rail and Alstom today announce a bold plan to fast-track the hydrogen train industry in the UK with a further £1 million (over €1 million) investment in British hydrogen trains, creating an entirely new class of train, the first-ever 600 series.

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PGM PROJECTS: Eastern Platinum Limited Announces an Agreement to Complete a Feasibility Study and Source Funding for the Recovery of PGMs Through a Joint Venture From the Redeposited Tailings

Eastern Platinum Limited announces that its subsidiary, Barplats Mines (Pty) Ltd., has entered into a project framework agreement with Advanced Beneficiation Technologies Proprietary Limited of South Africa , an organization fully compliant as a Black Economic Empowerment Entrepreneur and a member of the Omang Group of companies, to complete an independent feasibility study for the development and construction of a new modular plant with a capacity to process the platinum group metals of the tailings redeposited at a designated area of the Zandfontein Tailings Dam situated at the Crocodile River Mine in South Africa at a rate of between 20,000 and 50,000 tons per month (the final rate is dependent on the optimal outcome of the Feasibility Study).

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SILVER: Fresnillo surfs silver wave to top FTSE 100 risers

  • Date: 22-07-20
  • Category: SILVER
  • Source: Financial Times

Precious metals producer Fresnillo’s share price climbed more than 9 per cent on Wednesday, cementing its position as the year’s best-performing UK blue-chip stock after reporting stronger than anticipated silver production. The company, whose seven mines are all in Mexico, said it produced 13.6m ounces of silver in the three months to the end of June, up 2.8 per cent from the previous quarter and ahead of market estimates. Analysts had expected output of 12.2m ounces.

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HYDROGEN: Anglo American could use ‘green’ hydrogen power at Queensland open-pit coal mines

  • Date: 21-07-20
  • Category: HYDROGEN
  • Source: International Mining

Anglo American has eyes on producing ‘green’ hydrogen to power the haul fleet at not only its Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine, in South Africa, but also at least one of its open-pit coal mines in Queensland, Australia, IM has learned.

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