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1. voda 23 augustus 2021 08:21

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   Woodside & BHP to Create Global Energy Company
   
   Woodside Petroleum Ltd and BHP Group have entered into a merger commitment deed to combine their respective oil and gas portfolios by an all-stock merger to create a global top 10 independent energy company by production. On completion of the Transaction, BHP’s oil and gas business would merge with Woodside, and Woodside would issue new shares to be distributed to BHP shareholders. The expanded Woodside would be owned 52 per cent by existing Woodside shareholders and 48 per cent by existing BHP shareholders. The Transaction is subject to confirmatory due diligence, negotiation and execution of full form transaction documents, and satisfaction of conditions precedent including shareholder, regulatory and other approvals.
   
   With the combination of two high quality asset portfolios, the proposed merger would create the largest energy company listed on the ASX, with a global top 10 position in the LNG industry by production. The combined company will have a high margin oil portfolio, long life LNG assets and the financial resilience to help supply the energy needed for global growth and development over the energy transition.
   
   The combination of Woodside and BHP’s oil and gas business is expected to deliver substantial value creation for both sets of shareholders from across a range of areas
   
   On a proforma basis, the combined business will consist of:
   
   High quality conventional asset base producing around 200 MMboe (FY21 net production)
   
   Diversified production mix of 46% LNG, 29% oil and condensate and 25% domestic gas and liquids (FY21 net production)
   
   Wide geographic reach with production from Western Australia, east coast Australia, US Gulf of Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago with approximately 94% of production (FY21 net production) from OECD nations
   
   2P reserves of over 2 billion boe comprising 59% gas, and 41% liquids.
   
   Source - Strategic Research Institute
2. voda 24 augustus 2021 08:25

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   BHP Approves Investment in Jansen Stage 1 Potash Project
   
   BHP has approved USD 5.7 billion in capital expenditure for the Jansen Stage 1 potash project in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada. Jansen S1 is expected to produce approximately 4.35 million tonnes of potash per annum, and has a basin position with the potential for further expansions (subject to studies and approvals). First ore is targeted in the 2027 calendar year, with construction expected to take approximately six years, followed by a ramp up period of two years.
   
   Jansen S1 includes the design, engineering and construction of an underground potash mine and surface infrastructure including a processing facility, a product storage building, and a continuous automated rail loading system. Jansen S1 product will be shipped to export markets through Westshore, in Delta, British Columbia and the project includes funding for the required port infrastructure.
   
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3. voda 24 augustus 2021 09:57

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   NICKEL: Noront backs BHP’s takeover offer in Wyloo row
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   Canadian nickel miner Noront Resources has refuted “several misleading statements” from its largest shareholder Wyloo Metals amid a takeover deal with BHP, Kallanish reports.
   
   The Australia-based company, which owns around 23% of Noront, said on 19 August it will refuse to sell its shares to BHP. Owner Andrew Forrest also suggested he could return with an increased competing offer if Noront opened its books for due diligence.
   
   Responding to the statement, Noront says it needed to clarify its proposed acquisition by BHP Western Mining Resources International. The Toronto-listed firm reiterated its support for BHP’s bid and recommended shareholders to accept the cash offer.
   
   BHP topped Wyloo’s offer to acquire Noront in July, giving the price of CAD 0.55 ($0.43) per Noront share. This is 75% higher than Wyloo’s CAD 0.31/share offer and a premium of 129% over Noront’s closing price on 21 May – when Wyloo made public its proposed acquisition.
   
   Noront claims Wyloo declined to enter into a customary confidentiality agreement to have access to due diligence information, just like BHP did. It indicates that if Wyloo wants to proceed with its proposed takeover, then it should up its offer price.
   
   “If Wyloo remains interested in engaging with Noront, the support agreement entered into between Noront and BHP contains customary terms that permit the company to engage with, and provide confidential information to, a party that makes a proposal to the company that is superior to the offer or would reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal. To date, the company has received no such proposals,” Noront explains.
   
   The Australian company can’t stop the deal from going ahead, as the minimum tender condition for the offer is that more than 50% of the shares not owned by BHP be tendered to the offer.
   
   “This condition can be satisfied regardless of whether Wyloo tenders its Noront shares to the offer,” says Noront.
   
   BHP and Noront have until 9 November to close the deal before the offer expires. Cash-strapped Noront believes the proposal is “fair” and provides the best financial return to its shareholders, which also include China’s Baosteel (5.4%).
   
   BHP has the financial strength to advance Noront’s Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper-platinum-palladium project in the Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario. The project is still several years from beginning production.
   
   “This is a win-win for both BHP and Noront shareholders,” BHP chief development officer Johan van Jaarsveld said in a statement last month. Acquiring Noront is a “world-class growth option in a key future-facing commodity,” he says, adding that the company could expand operations in the Ring of Fire region in the future.
   
   The Ring of Fire region is a developing multi-metals area in the James Bay Lowlands of northern Ontario. Noront, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, also has the Blackbird, Black Thor and Big Daddy chromite deposits in the region.
   
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4. voda 24 augustus 2021 14:07

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   Iron ore slump 'irrational', says Anglo's Brazil ceo
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   UK-headquartered miner Anglo American has reaffirmed that its Brazil-based iron ore production will be between 24-25 million tonnes in 2021. Most of this output will be exported to China, South Korea, Taiwan and the Middle East. So said company chief executive for Brazil Wilfred Bruijn in an interview with Brazilian publication Estadão.
   
   Strong fluctuations in iron ore price have affected the company's balance sheet, but should not impact investments in the country, Kallanish notes.
   
   “The sudden devaluation of iron ore is an irrational move, and the best is to ‘watch from the stands’ as the commodity fluctuates,” Bruijn commented.
   
   The current instability is creating uncertainty over market development in 2022, he added.
   
   “The Chinese government's regulatory measures to reduce steel production would result in lower demand for raw materials,” Bruijn explained. “The feeling is that the iron ore price deceleration would stop at some point, but that's not what is happening.” Despite the price collapse, values remain above pre-pandemic levels and prices could rebound as a result of tight supply and growing demand, the executive observed.
   
   The current market scenario should not affect Anglo’s investment plan in Brazil, where the miner plans to place $250 million into maintenance works and improving operations.
   
   The company is advancing to meet the target of using 100% energy from renewable sources this year. According to Bruijn, the Minas-Rio unit has only 4% left to reach the goal due to an old power supply contract.
   
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5. voda 25 augustus 2021 08:42

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   Vale Uses Robots to Remove Employees from Risky Situations
   
   The dream of science fiction writers to see robots working side by side with men is becoming a reality in Vale's operations in Brazil. The company has been investing in different models of robots to assist employees in maintenance tasks, helping to remove them from risky situations and contributing to the company's objective of becoming benchmark in mining safety. Currently, Vale works with three main robot models: two developed by the Vale Institute of Technology (ITV - Mining), which resemble “carts”, and one acquired from an international supplier, Anymal, nicknamed by the company as “puppy”. Created in 2010, ITV keeps a robotics cell, which has been developing robots, drones and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for operations. In 2015, Vale's Speleology area started the SpeleoRobot project, which the following year was taken over by ITV in partnership with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The remotely operated robotic device, with cameras and a lighting system, capable of moving over rough terrain, was initially designed to help speleologists working for Vale by mapping caves close to operations.
   
   As of 2017, the SpeleoRobot began to be tested in other operational functions, such as inspections in confined environments, which are difficult for people to access. Inspections have already been carried out in pipes, galleries and drains, in addition to services in plant equipment, such as mapping of ball mills and inspection of crusher teeth. The SpeleoRobot has already been used in more than 15 different services in the operations in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo and Pará. Its interchangeable locomotion system allows the robot to move using wheels, tires, treads or legs, providing mobility conditions on different types of terrain, and its sensing system allows for high resolution inspection, generation of three-dimensional maps, in addition to other modular capabilities.
   
   Recently, some of the robot perception modules developed by ITV were exchanged with NASA, the US space agency. “These modules are being validated for use in an international underground robotics challenge”, comments researcher Maira Saboia, from ITV.
   
   ITV is producing three more units of this robot, which will be leased to copper operations in Pará and iron ore operations in Vitória (Espírito Santo) and Itabira (Minas Gerais), where they will be used in inspections of mills, pipelines and other confined environments.
   
   The Robot for Inspection Services (ROSI) is also being developed by ITV, in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Designed since the beginning of the project as an inspection tool in Vale's operational areas, ROSI focuses on conveyor belts, a critical piece of equipment for mining. For this, ROSI carries a robotic arm capable of acting with dexterity in the operational environment, being able to reposition sensors and collect samples in places with difficult access. The robot began to be developed in 2017 and is currently in the testing phase
   
   In addition to developing equipment at home, Vale is also acquiring Anymal, a quadruped robot created by Anybotics, a Swiss company. Already used in other industries, the robot was adapted for mining operations with the support of a team from Vale. This year, a proof of concept was completed at the Cauê plant, in Itabira (Minas Gerais). The success of the tests convinced Vale that it should purchase a unit of the robot.
   
   During the proof of concept, the robot maneuvered around the platform and overcame obstacles such as going up and down stairs. It created and displayed a digitized map of the area under inspection, executed route planning and defined the way forward, focused on specific objects and instruments, transmitted images, recorded thermal images with temperature measurements, among other functions.
   
   Using the robot minimizes human exposure in hazardous locations, in addition to allowing remote asset inspection and data collection so that more effective decisions can be made. “With the robot, we eliminate risks pertaining to inspection activities, such as rotating equipment parts, noise and dust,” explains Rayner Teixeira, operational analyst responsible for developing Anymal at Vale. “We also eliminate activities that have ergonomic risk, where the employee would need to perform a task in an uncomfortable position. The robot also gives us access to confined spaces, like the inside of a mill.”
   
   The robot will be used to carry out inspections of the grinding unit and the three-dimensional map of the Cauê mine. In addition to the gains in employee safety, a reduction in the number of stops and maintenance costs is expected, as well as greater reliability in inspection and the collection of parameters to control the performance of assets in real time.
   
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6. voda 25 augustus 2021 08:43

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   Scientists Develop Technique for Forest Recovery in Brumadinho
   
   The result of a partnership between the Brazilian Federal University of Viçosa and Vale, the technique is being used for the first time in the world. The vegetation impacted by the B1 Dam rupture is getting important support in its recovery from new technology. An innovative technique developed by scientists from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), in Minas Gerais State of Brazil, in partnership with Vale, which can recover plant DNA and create plant copies, has begun to be applied for forest rehabilitation in the area. Seedlings, that can take more than eight years to flower, can now begin this process from between six to twelve months, which can effectively contribute to accelerate the recovery of the region's biodiversity.
   
   The project, called "DNA rescue and early flowering induction in native forest species in the Brumadinho region", was considered by UFV specialists as a milestone for the genetic conservation of plants and reforestation of endangered species, as is the case for some of the species in Brumadinho. The initiative also aims to contribute to the environmental recovery of the area impacted by the rupture, which is one of the most important premises of the work to repair the damage caused. The project, in partnership with Vale, is also managed by the Brazilian Federal Inspection Service (SIF).
   
   In the field, researchers visit the affected areas and carry out the DNA recovery procedure. “In partnership with Vale, we rescued the DNA of species that are important for the region´s forest structure, such as Jacaranda-Caviúna (Brazilian rosewood), Ipê-Amarelo (Golden Trumpet tree), Braúna (Melanoxylon Brauna) and Jequitibá (Cariniana). We are also producing copies of these plants to ensure the preservation of each genetic sequencing”, explains Gleison dos Santos, professor from the Forest Engineering Department of UFV (DEF/UFV). In all, genetic material was collected from 10 plants, from five different species, including species that are in danger of extinction and protected by law.
   
   The genetic material is taken to UFV and maintained under the most demanding plant health and safety standards. The copying process starts in the field, with the collection of branches from the parent trees. In the laboratory, the branches undergo a grafting procedure so that they are apt to reproduce exactly the genetic material of other plants from small samples.
   
   In addition to rescuing the DNA of endangered trees, the technique also induces the early flowering of young plants produced from rescued trees. With this innovation, seedlings that can take more than eight years to flower, can now start this process from between six to twelve months after field rescue, enabling faster recovery of vegetation and helping to accelerate the restoration process of impacted environments. The forest restoration of 33 hectares is planned for 2021, with the planting of approximately 70 thousand seedlings (and an additional 5 thousand seedlings from 30 different species using the Vale/UFV technology over the next 3 years). In total, 132 hectares of forest were directly impacted by the dam rupture.
   
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7. voda 25 augustus 2021 08:51

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   Vale & Silverstream riding on wave of air with bubble project
   
   The first VLOC fitted with an air cushion to cut fuel use and emissions has completed its first voyage. The new technology on the 325,000-dwt VLOC Sea Victoria (built 2021) is part of ambitious plans by charterer Vale and maker Silverstream Technologies to expand the use of the carbon-cutting system. The Silverstream air lubrication system produces a carpet of bubbles to reduce friction between the hull and water, and will be assessed over a one-year period with results verified by classification society Lloyd’s Register. Ten compressors were installed on the ship’s deck to send air to 20 bubble-producing devices under the hull when the system was fitted on the Pan Ocean-owned Sea Victoria at a cost of USD 5.5 million.
   
   Vale’s ships are on long-term contracts of affreightment, but the group has paid the entire cost of the pilot installations of the Silverstream technology as well as the Norsepower rotor sails it has fitted on another VLOC newbuilding owned by Pan Ocean. It has negotiated ways to measure fuel-saving gains in the contracts.
   
   Silberschmidt hopes for conversions on existing vessels in the range of 50 to 100 ships over the next five years, he added.
   
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8. nine_inch_nerd 25 augustus 2021 09:41

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9. voda 25 augustus 2021 11:24

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   Rio Tinto, Sumitomo to study hydrogen pilot plant in Gladstone
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   Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto announced Tuesday plans to begin a partnership with Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation to trial the use of hydrogen at Rio’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Australia.
   
   The idea is to study the construction of a hydrogen pilot plant at the refinery, as the location for a Gladstone-based plant Sumitomo has been studying. This is part of Sumitomo’s efforts to develop the so-called Gladstone Hydrogen Ecosystem – a large-scale hydrogen export project.
   
   The Rio Tinto-Sumitomo cooperation supports the efforts of Australian, Queensland and local governments to establish Gladstone as a clean hydrogen hub. It also complements Rio Tinto’s recently announced $1.2 million feasibility study into using clean hydrogen to replace natural gas in the alumina refining process at Yarwun. The alternative gas, potentially produced from renewables power, would be used in the calcination process, Kallanish learns from the company.
   
   “Rio Tinto has a long relationship with Sumitomo and we are delighted to partner with them to explore the possibilities of hydrogen, not only for our own refinery, but for Sumitomo to supply industry more broadly in Gladstone,” comments Rio Tinto Australia ceo Kellie Parker.
   
   Both companies aim to have net-zero operations by 2050 and hydrogen is set to play a significant role in such decarbonisation. Prior to making Gladstone an export hub, Sumitomo and local partners need to ensure domestic offtake of the fuel.
   
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10. voda 25 augustus 2021 11:27

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    Anglo American produces Chile’s first green H2 for mining vehicles
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    Mining giant Anglo American has produced Chile’s first green hydrogen dedicated for vehicles -- a first step towards achieving carbon neutral operations in the country by 2030, Kallanish reports.
    
    The green hydrogen plant reuses water from Anglo’s Los Bronces copper mine and solar energy from Las Tórtolas plant to produce 2 kilograms/day of the fuel. This is then used to power Anglo’s mining vehicle fleet, starting with a 3-tonne forklift crane that will operate in Los Bronces. The goal is to eventually power large mining trucks.
    
    “Chile is set to be a world leader in green hydrogen production and at Anglo American we are convinced that the country has all the attributes to achieve it. As a company we want to contribute to accelerating this agenda, with pioneering initiatives such as this hydrogen generator, which also encourage us to achieve our goal of carbon neutrality by 2030,” says Anglo’s Chile ceo Aaron Puna, at a ceremony event on Monday.
    
    Chilean President Sebastián Piñera highlighted the country’s “gigantic potential” to become a global leader in green hydrogen production.
    
    “The goal is to develop an industry that exports more than $30 billion a year, a level close to current copper exports...This is a clean, transportable, competitive and sustainable fuel, which will allow us a great reduction in CO2 emissions,” he says.
    
    Energy minister Juan Carlos Jobet notes that hydrogen will be important for the mining sector, but also for cargo transport, industrial processes and residential use blended with natural gas. He said the country has identified over 40 green hydrogen projects, some to produce hydrogen, others to produce ammonia and some to produce synthetic fuels.
    
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11. voda 27 augustus 2021 07:49

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    BHP Struggles to Sell Coal Mine in NSW
    
    WA Today reported that Mining giant BHP would pay a bidder about AUD 275 million to take the biggest coal mine in NSW off its hands even as prices of the fossil fuel soar to levels not seen since 2008. BHP has been shopping its Mt Arthur coal mine near Muswellbrook for more than a year, and on Wednesday slashed its value from about AUD 550 million to a liability of AUD 275 million.
    
    The reduction, coming seven months after it dropped AUD 1.6 billion off the book value of the mine, is also an indication of the huge costs of rehabilitation the new owner will have to bear. These include AUD 40 million owed to Muswellbrook Shire Council for a road that BHP dug up
    
    China’s Yancoal, Indian-owned Adani have been named previously as potential buyers of Mt Arthur, while Indonesia’s Sinar Mar is reported to have been a recent suitor that turned away.
    
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    Martin Kepman, CEO of Manganese X Energy Creates Web Resource - Explains Why Investors Should Be Interested in Canadian Manganese Deposits
    Manganese as an essential component in steel production is poised to replace cobalt in lithium ion batteries, manganese a future-friendly investment along with being ecologically green friendly.
    
    Manganese X Energy Corp.August 30, 2021 04:45 ET
    New Brunswick, Canada, Aug. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
    
    Martin Kepman, CEO of Manganese X Energy,Martin Kepman Explains Why Investors Should Be Interested in Canadian Manganese Deposits!
    
    Manganese is the fourth most widely used metal globally, with 90% of usage being attached to steel and development industries. China is the world’s biggest purchaser of manganese.
    
    The cost of mining manganese, however, has consistently been volatile throughout the past several years because of ethical issues in sourcing or the use of selenium (a highly toxic mineral) in processing high-quality manganese.
    
    Manganese is an important component of the steel production process, which makes it extremely relevant to the vast majority of production industries, which rely heavily on steel. It is also projected to replace cobalt in lithium ion battery production because it is less toxic and more economical to produce.
    
    “We foresee greater demand for manganese arising from electric vehicle EV expansion, resulting in an upward price for manganese,” explains CEO of Manganese X Energy, Martin Kepman. Reasons for increased future demand include plans by Tesla and Volkswagen’s respective plans to open multiple gigafactories across the world, in addition to Ford and GM’s investment in EV models. A-Forecasts predict a 23% increase in demand for manganese each year until 2030.
    
    Significant mining developments in South Africa, Ghana, and Gabon may have led to an oversupply in the manganese market via earlier expansion in Chinese port stockpiles, “forcing downward pressure” on the price of manganese in 2019 and into mid-2020, according to a 3030 Roskill market report on the metal.
    
    In mid-2020, a brief spike in the price of manganese followed COVID-19 lockdowns, which slowed the manganese production process. The mineral’s unique supply and demand dynamics mean that “investing in manganese could be a future-friendly mining idea,” notes Kepman.
    
    “Manganese enhanced batteries are more robust, higher in density and much less toxic than cobalt. Manganese is currently more affordable than cobalt per ton, at less than a third of the price of cobalt on world markets. All this without the mining logistics and production issues associated with cobalt, making it an ethically, environmentally, and economically viable investment,” states Martin Kepman.
    
    The choice of industry to move to manganese instead of cobalt for their batteries is an obvious one: manganese creates better performing, and more ethically sourced batteries at a fraction of the cost.
    
    “Manganese X Corp expects a huge development in the manganese market because of its demonstrated value in clean energy applications, Mr. Kepman concludes. Moreover, we expect the increased proportions of manganese projected to be used for nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and lithium-particle (Li-particle) batteries to be significant and will affect all future rechargeable batteries, EV and Hybrid electric vehicles and energy backup power storage industries.”
    
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    For more information on the supply and demand dynamics of cobalt and answers to essential questions for investors, read Mr. Kepman’s full discussion of the current manganese market.
    
    About Manganese Energy Corp.
    
    Manganese X Energy Corp. intends to provide a secure ethically sourced manganese supply by exploring and developing its manganese rich deposit near Woodstock New Brunswick, the Battery Hill Project. The Fraser Institute has recently called New Brunswick one of the best mining jurisdictions in Canada, a country known to be mining friendly.
    
    Manganese X Energy Corp. (TSXV: MN) (FSE: 9SC2) (OTC:QB:MNXXF) (FRANKFURT:
    
    9SC2) with its head office in Montreal QC, owns 100% of the Battery Hill property project (1,228 hectares) located in New Brunswick Canada. Battery Hill is strategically situated 12 kilometers from the US (Maine) border, near existing infrastructures (power, railways, and roads). It encompasses all or part of five manganese-iron zones, including Iron Ore Hill, Moody Hill, Sharpe Farm, Maple Hill and Wakefield. According to Brian Way’s (2012) master’s thesis on the Woodstock manganese occurrences, that includes Battery Hill, the area “hosts a series of banded iron formations that collectively constitute one of the largest manganese resources in North America, approximately 194,000,000 tons.”
    
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    Japanese Patent Office Issues Patent for American Manganese’s Closed-Loop Lithium-ion Battery Upcycling Process
    
    American Manganese Inc. (“AMY” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Japanese Patent Office has issued Patent No. 6906060, for the company’s closed-loop lithium-ion battery upcycling process, RecycLiCo™. The Japanese Patent joins already issued patents in the United States (U.S. Patent No. 10246343 and U.S. Patent No. 10308523) and South Korea (Patent No. 10-2246670). The Company has also filed National Phase Patent Applications for China, Europe, Australia, India, and Canada.
    
    The patent provides coverage for AMY’s novel closed-loop method for achieving up to 100% extraction of cobalt, nickel, manganese, aluminum, and lithium from the treatment of several cathode chemistries such as lithium-cobalt oxide (LCO), lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide (NMC), and lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide (NCA). Most of the electric vehicle market uses NMC and NCA cathode chemistries, while LCO cathodes are used in smaller portable electronics.
    
    Compared to traditional hydrometallurgical recycling processes, the Company’s patented closed-loop process offers advantages such as faster reaction rates, lower consumption of acids, improved water balance, and higher leaching efficiency.
    
    “As we move towards our goal of commercialization, we are reminded by the foundation of patents that supported our growth in battery recycling and we are honoured to be issued another patent by a country that is one of the world leaders in battery innovation,” said Larry Reaugh, President and CEO of American Manganese, “Innovation is at the core of our company and as a pioneer in battery recycling we continue to monitor new lithium-ion battery technologies and opportunities.”
    
    About American Manganese Inc.
    American Manganese Inc. is a critical minerals company focused on the upcycling of lithium-ion battery waste into high-value battery cathode materials, using its closed-loop RecycLiCo™ Patented Process. With minimal processing steps and up to 99% extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese, the upcycling process creates valuable lithium-ion battery materials for direct integration into the re-manufacturing of new lithium-ion batteries.
    
    American Manganese’s original patented manganese process is the cornerstone technology in the development of the Company’s lithium-ion battery cathode recycling process, RecycLiCo™.
    
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    Rio Tinto & Unifor Local 2301 Agree to Resume Negotiations
    
    Rio Tinto and Unifor Local 2301 met in Vancouver on 23 August. Both parties had an open and frank discussion about the long-term changes needed for smelter to be a sustainable and respectful workplace for all. Rio Tinto said “Starting 24 August, we have returned to the bargaining table to resume negotiations. Our conversations will tackle the outstanding issues. If successful, Rio Tinto and Unifor Local 2301 will develop a plan to return to work that will guide what needs to be done from the time an agreement is reached until we ramp up to full production with all pots back in operation.”
    
    Rio Tinto added “We started to describe our shared vision for the future of BC Works. The importance of a significant reset and cultural change based on mutual trust is recognised as paramount. We all want to build an environment where the entire workforce feels listened to, cared for and reflect proudly on their workplace and the contribution they make. Everyone should feel involved, included and work in an environment where issues that arise are resolved as early as possible. Leaders and members show courage in addressing issues without unnecessary escalation. Formalization of grievances should be the exception. We all want to work in roles that we are properly trained and prepared for, while operating assets that are healthy and stable.”
    
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    Rio Tinto Resumes Operations at Richards Bay Minerals
    
    Rio Tinto has commenced the process of restarting operations at Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa. This follows a stabilisation of the security situation around the mine, supported by the national and provincial government, as well as substantive engagement with host communities and their traditional authorities. Rio Tinto chief executive Minerals Sinead Kaufman said “The safety and security of our people has been our priority throughout and we recognise the collaboration and constructive dialogue we have had with all stakeholders to get us into a position where we can restart operations and resume contributing to the host communities, KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa. I also acknowledge the resilience and dedication shown by all our people at RBM over the past weeks.”
    
    Operations will be ramping up to capacity as soon as possible. The overall impact of the suspension of operations, including the shutdown of furnace number 4 as announced on 21 July 2021, is still to be assessed. At this time, the force majeure declared on customer contracts remains in place.
    
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    NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge for Promoting Mining
    
    As NASA prepares to go to the Moon with the Artemis program, in-situ resource utilization is paramount, and there is no hotter commodity than water. To that effect, 13 teams from across the United States have won a share of a USD 500,000 prize in a competition that asked for ideas for digging and hauling icy Moon dirt or regolith. NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge opened in November 2020, incentivizing new approaches for excavating resources astronauts will need during long-duration missions on the Moon. Water, one of the most important resources, is trapped in icy regolith at the Moon’s poles, inside permanently dark and cold craters.
    
    Redwire Space, headquartered in Jacksonville in Florida won 1st place and USD 125,000 for its proposed lunar excavation system concept in NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Redwire Space, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, won first place and USD 125,000 for its proposed two-rover system designed for simplicity and robustness. The company’s Lunar Regolith Excavator, L-Rex, would excavate large amounts of icy regolith. A versatile, low-mass transportation rover called Lunar Transporter, L-Tran, would be responsible for deploying the excavator and delivering regolith and ice.
    
    Colorado School of Mines in Golden won second place and USD 75,000 for its proposed Lunar Ice Digging System, or LIDS. LIDS would include three rovers – excavator, regolith hauler, and water hauler, as well as a communications and navigation system. Both haulers would have robotic arms for assembly, maintenance, and repairs. And all three vehicles would be teleoperated from a nearby lunar surface habitat.
    
    Austere Engineering of Littleton, Colorado, won third place and USD 50,000 for its Grading and Rotating for Water Located in Excavated Regolith, GROWLER, system. The system has an estimated mass of around 12 metric tons. The GROWLER would first establish a local positioning system and map the surface and underground rocks obstructing excavation. The GROWLER would then excavate icy regolith with a rotary tiller before extracting and delivering water.
    
    NASA selected 10 additional teams that submitted viable and innovative ideas that could benefit to NASA and the nation soon. Each will receive USD 25,000. The runners-up are:
    
    AggISRU from Texas A&M University in College Station
    
    Aurora Robotics from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks
    
    Lunar Lions from the Columbia University Robotics Club in New York
    
    OffWorld Robotics in Pasadena, California
    
    Oshkosh Corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
    
    Rocket M in Mojave, California
    
    Space Trajectory from South Dakota State University in Brookings
    
    Team AA-Star in Redmond, Washington
    
    Team LIQUID from Altadena, California
    
    Terra Engineering in Gardena, California
    
    Phase 1 challenged teams to design a system architecture for collecting and moving large amounts of icy regolith and water from a permanently shadowed region near the Moon's South Pole. Teams had seven months to register and submit a detailed system architecture, an excavation plan, and an animation of the system in operation. Thirty-one teams, including academia, industry, and independent inventors from 17 US states, Canada, Australia, and Sri Lanka, submitted eligible proposals. NASA convened a panel of experts to evaluate and score each team based on their solution’s potential performance in extreme conditions to determine the winners. Specific performance goals included maximum water delivery, minimum energy use, and lowest-mass equipment.
    
    A future Phase 2 of the challenge may focus on hardware development and demonstration.
    
    The Break the Ice Lunar Challenge is a NASA Centennial Challenge, managed by NASA Marshall and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Centennial Challenges are part of the Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA has contracted Ensemble Consultancy to support the management of competitors for this challenge.
    
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    KOLWEZI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) Co-Chairs Robert Friedland and Yufeng “Miles” Sun are pleased to announce that hot commissioning and ramp-up of Kamoa-Kakula’s Phase 1, 3.8 million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) concentrator plant is progressing well and approaching nameplate steady-state-design performance.
    
    During August, the plant achieved an average milling rate of more than 9,000 tonnes per day at an average feed grade of more than 6.0% copper. On August 29, the Phase 1 concentrator plant produced in excess of 600 tonnes of copper in filtered concentrate, which is the plant’s steady-state-design daily production rate.
    
    During August, the concentrator plant produced concentrate containing 14,815 tonnes of copper. As of August 31, a total of 36,712 tonnes of copper had been produced year-to-date for delivery to either the Lualaba Copper Smelter near Kolwezi, or to international markets. All concentrate produced to date has been loaded onto trucks (either bulk for the Lualaba Smelter or in bags for international markets) and the concentrate backlog at the mine site has been cleared.
    
    Chart 1: Monthly tonnes of copper produced May 2021 to August 2021.
    
    Steve Amos, Kamoa Copper’s Head of Projects, commented: “The hot commissioning and ramp-up of the Phase 1 concentrator plant is going very well, with no significant issues encountered to date. Fast tracking of an additional concentrate filter will enable us to produce more concentrate and take advantage of the exceptional ore grades coming from the Kakula Mine, as well as any additional milling throughput in excess of design capacity.A third concentrate filter is being procured and will be incorporated into the Phase 2 plant.”
    
    Copper recoveries improved to an average of 83% during August, with recoveries in excess of 86% achieved on multiple occasions. The Phase 1, steady-state-design copper recovery is approximately 86%.
    
    Chart 2: Cumulative tonnes of copper produced May 2021 to August 2021.
    
    Ivanhoe’s production guidance for contained copper in concentrate at Kamoa-Kakula in 2021 is 80,000 to 95,000 tonnes. The figures are on a 100%-project basis and metal reported in concentrate is prior to refining losses or deductions associated with smelter terms. The guidance assumes ramp-up from first production continues in line with published technical disclosures.
    
    
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    Vale Starts Operating Autonomous Trucks in Iron Ore Complex Brazil
    By Strategic Research Institute on Sep 08, 2021 10:00 am
    
    Vale started operating six autonomous haul trucks in the Carajás iron ore complex in the state of Pará in Brazil. By the end of the year, ten vehicles will be operating at the site. This initiative is part of a set of actions aimed at increasing employee safety, making the operation more environmentally sustainable and obtaining gains in competitiveness. The implementation is being accompanied by a human resources plan to train employees to work with new digital technologies.
    
    Capable of moving 320 metric tons at a time, the autonomous trucks were being tested in an isolated area in Carajás since 2019. Last week they started the final testing phase at the N4E mine and yesterday, September 1st, they officially went live. In the entire Carajás Complex, four autonomous drills are already in operation and by the end of the year this number will get to seven drills.
    
    The autonomous operation began to be implemented by Vale at the Brucutu mine, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2016, and today it covers all 13 haul trucks at that unit. Since the implementation in Brucutu, no accident caused by trucks has been recorded. The autonomous trucks are controlled by computer systems, GPS, radar and artificial intelligence, covering the route between the mining front and the unloading area. Upon detecting risks, the equipment stops its operations until the path is cleared again. The safety system's sensors are capable of detecting both larger objects such as large rocks and other trucks, as well as human beings in the vicinity of the road. Therefore, risky situations, such as tipping and collision, were eliminated.
    
    In the autonomous truck there is no operator in the cabin. But people continue to play a relevant role in the operation. Other equipment circulating through the mine, such as motor graders and tractors, will continue to be manned. Therefore, the operators of these vehicles received training to interact with autonomous trucks. 32 operators have already been trained and by the end of the year this number will reach 120. There will be 208 hours of training for each operator, totaling almost 25,000 hours.
    
    Over the next 12 months, the operation will be assisted by the truck supplier. After this period, it is expected that Vale fully assumes the operation. When this occurs, new jobs will be created in control rooms, far from the mining front.
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    Metinvest’s Inguletsky GOK Launches Cyclic Flow Technology
    By Strategic Research Institute on Sep 08, 2021 10:00 am
    
    Metinvest Group’s Ingulets mining and processing plant of, a new route of the ore cyclic-flow technology complex was put into operation. This is one of the largest mining projects in the company over the past decade. Metinvest invested about USD 50 million in the construction of the complex. The CPT complex is located in a quarry, is a system of underground and surface conveyors and consists of two routes - the new East and the existing West. Ore is mined in the face, loaded by excavators into dump trucks, which bring it to the transfer point, where the ore is crushed into large pieces. After crushing, the system of underground conveyors of the Eastern and Western tracts delivers the ore to the surface of the quarry, where it undergoes medium and fine crushing, and then goes for concentration. The ore covers the path from 300-meter depth to the surface of the open pit in 15 minutes.
    
    The construction of the complex took six years. During this time, capital mining and construction works were carried out, the main technological and auxiliary equipment was installed. All work is automated - this allows you to control absolutely all parameters of the equipment. Also, an automated aspiration unit is installed at the central heating center, which cleans the air from dust.
    
    The launch of the cycle-flow technology complex allows for faster delivery of ore from the lower horizons of the quarry and reduces the use of dump trucks. The dump truck route is reduced by 10%, which makes it possible to reduce the cost of transporting ore.
    
    In addition, due to environmentally friendly and economical conveyor transport in the quarry, the technologic load on the environment, operating and maintenance costs will be reduced.
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    FYI Resources has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with emerging graphite producer EcoGraf to develop High Purity Alumina doped carbon coatings material for application in the burgeoning lithium-ion battery market.
    
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