New large helium deposits are becoming fewer and farther between, even though we’ve only known about the element since 1868, a little over 150 years ago. We’ve only been mining it in earnest since 1915, when the U.S. Army built the first helium extraction plant at the Petrolia Oilfield in North Texas.
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London-listed Kavango Resources has found promising initial images from its computerised three-dimensional (3D) geological modelling of its Kalahari Suture Zone (KSZ) project in Botswana.
The company says the images confirm significant similarities b…
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Exploration pitting works at Xtract Resources’ Eureka copper/gold deposit, in Zambia, has confirmed earlier modelling of a strike extension to the northwest.
Earlier three-dimensional modelling on the Eureka main pit copper/gold deposit suggested that…
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South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by just over 16% between the first and second quarters, resulting in an annualised growth rate of ‑51%. This has extended the economic recession into its fourth quarter.
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South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 51% in the second quarter, down from a revised 1.8% quarter-on-quarter contraction recorded in the first quarter, extending the economic recession into its fourth quarter. Nearly 91% of ind…
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Industrial digital technologies, energy and automation multinational ABB has deployed an advanced process control platform for Anglo American Technical Solutions, in Johannesburg, enabling it to do continuous laboratory test work without supervision, A…
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TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines and its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) − Zijin Mining Group, Crystal River Global and the country’s government − have welcomed the positive findings of an independent definitive feasibility study (DFS) on th…
Ivanhoe to discuss Kamoa-Kakula project options with shareholders Read More »
Significant growth in fuel cells and hydrogen is now almost certain and the prize for South Africa remains potentially large. That is the view of E4tech director Professor Dr David Hart of Switzerland, expressed in an address to a fuel cell webinar hos…
Prize potentially large in platinum fuel cell and hydrogen growth – prof Read More »
(Kitco News) – Ron Paul: ‘It’s the biggest financial bubble in the history of monetary policy’ (Pt. 1/2)
(Kitco News) – It’s not just gold investors who should be paying attention to potential rising inflation pressures as one market analyst notes that silver could rise to all-time highs as real interest rates push further into negative territory.
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