Scientists to look at the role of supernovae as element-makers
Researchers plan to look for manganese, chromium, cobalt, and nickel in a third-generation white dwarf supernova named SN2021aefx, which exploded a year ago in the Spanish Dancer galaxy.
It did not take long for COP26 to turn into a farce with UN Secretary General António Guterres pleading with the gathered highnesses and excellencies to declare enough is enough.
This year’s winners are Lovely Es Amuan and Nicole Launders, both pursuing the mining engineering technology diploma program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic.
Canada is the only Western nation that has an abundance of cobalt, graphite, lithium, and nickel, essential to creating the batteries and EVs of the future.
Anticorrosion coating developed at Rice University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a good candidate for infrastructure projects and electronics.
New report lays out how the green energy transition “starts and ends with metals” but the required exponential growth in mining is a glaring hole in US and global decarbonisation strategies.
The UN's International Seabed Authority (ISA) is working on global rules covering sea bed mining, which is not allowed until the regulations are finalised.