Mining

Electric Car

Mining.com EV Metal Index Shows Value of Battery Metals in Newly Registered Electrified Vehicles up 232% Y-O-Y in 2022

Mining.com’s EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including full battery, plug-in and conventional …

Hydropower Plant

Miyuukaa Corp. To Transmit Hydroelectric Power to Windfall Gold Project

Osisko Mining Inc. has concluded the previously announced binding term sheet agreement and signed a definitive agreement with Miyuukaa Corp. for construction of…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Ballard and First Mode Announce First Hydrogen Fuel Cells Purchase Order

The companies have signed an order for an additional 30 units for diesel-free mining trucks.Ballard Power Systems and First Mode have announced that a purchase …

Geothermal Power Plant

Eavor Granted Geothermal Exploration Permit in Buchholz, Germany

Buchholz, Lower Saxony, Germany (source: Albert Koch / flickr, Creative Commons)Eavor GmbH has been granted a geothermal exploration permit for the Buchholz per…

Solar Power Plant

Colombia Allocates 7.5 GW of Renewable Projects, Including 5.8 GW of Solar

Colombia's Mining and Energy Planning Unit, Unidad de Planificación Minera y Energética de Colombia (UPME), has announced power allocations fo…

Energy Storage Battery

Determining the Value and Best Uses of Battery Storage

Vistra's Moss Landing battery storage site (Source: Vistra Energy).By Todd Olinsky-Paul, Clean Energy States AllianceWhen considering whether to invest in n…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Ballard and first mode convert more mining trucks to FCVs

Ballard Power Systems will supply 30 fuel cell modules with a total capacity of 3 megawatts to First Mode to convert diesel dump trucks to combined hydrogen-bat…

Energy Storage Material

Iran announces first lithium reserve in country; Projected 8.5 million tonnes

Iran’s Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade recently announced that the country has discovered its first lithium reserve, in Qahavand in Hamedan provi…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Ballard & First Mode Sign Order for 30 Additional Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Ultra-Class Mining Trucks; 3MW

Ballard Power Systems and First Mode announced a purchase order for Ballard to supply First Mode with 30 hydrogen fuel cell modules—totaling 3 megawatts—to po…

Energy Storage Battery

Scholz Claims ‘Special Interest' in Chilean Lithium

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the German industry has a special interest in Chilean lithium and is ready to support Chile in mining…

Geothermal Power Plant

Eramet Signs Mou for Geothermal Lithium Extraction in Alsace, France

Well at Rittershoffen geothermal site in Alsace, France (source: ThinkGeoEnergy)The French mining company Eramet has signed an exclusive Memorandum of Understan…

India

Ballard, Adani & Ashok Leyland Team Up to Develop H2 Truck

Ballard Power Systems has signed an agreement to launch a pilot project to develop a hydrogen fuel cell electric truck for mining operations with Adani and Asho…

Coal Trade

RWE Brings Coal Exit Forward to 2030

RWE has released the following update regarding its coal activities:Today [11 January], RWE Power will start to demolish the former settlement of Lützerath…

Electric Car

This 240T Electric Mining Haul Truck Can Charge in 30 Minutes

A 240-tonne mining haul truck is about to be fitted with a 1.4 megawatt-hour (MWh) prototype battery system that global green energy company Fortescue has devel…

Coal Mine

Mining Investments on the Rise in Peru

Quellaveco mine in Peru. (Image courtesy of Anglo American).The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) issued its latest Mining Statistical Bulletin whic…