The Elements of Innovation Discovered

Articles from the March 4, 2020 edition


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  • Enviroleach non-cyanide gold leach recovery technology sustainable

    Gold leaching with edible ingredients

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jun 8, 2023

    Looking to put its best foot forward when it comes to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), Golden Predator Mining Corp. is testing a non-cyanide and environmentally friendly way to extract the otherwise hard to recover gold from its mine project in the Yukon. For more than 130 years, cyanide has provided an inexpensive and effective means of extracting gold from ore. A chemical compound of carbon and nitrogen, cyanide dissolves gold into a solution, from... Full story

  • Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at PDAC mining convention Toronto

    Trudeau rolls out electric mine incentive

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 2, 2022

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rolled out plans to get more electric vehicles into and less carbon dioxide emitting from Canadian mines in the coming years. To help Canada achieve its climate goals and keep its mining sector and other industries competitive, the federal government plans to include off-road vehicles to the current zero-emission incentive for electric vehicles on Canadian highways. Trudeau introduced the plan during a March 2 speech at the Prospectors &...

  • SpaceX Falcon launches from Cape Canaveral Heavy Falcon NASA Psyche Mission

    SpaceX to launch NASA mission to Psyche

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 2, 2022

    SpaceX will be launching a NASA payload to 16 Psyche, a roughly 173-mile-long asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter that is made up of nickel, iron and other metals. Currently slated for launch in July 2022, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will carry three payloads – equipment to support studies of the metallic asteroid, Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), which will study the Martian atmosphere, and Janus, which will study binary a...

  • Exyn Drone UAV mapping underground development at gold mine Finland

    Autonomous drone maps Finland gold mine

    A.J. Roan, For Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 2, 2022

    Rupert Resources partnered with Exyn Technologies to map 30 underground mining stopes in three days using the world's first industrial-grade fully autonomous drone at the past producing Pahtavaara gold mine in central Lapland of northern Finland. Since its acquisition of the Pahtavaara mine in 2016, Rupert has undertaken extensive new exploration and geological modelling, utilizing the substantial amount of historical drilling data and 35 kilometers (22 miles) of underground...

  • EnivroLeach gold processing plant at Golden Predator 3 Aces mine project Yukon

    Drilling gold wells with EnviroLeach tech

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 2, 2022

    Hardrock mining companies have long been envious of their oil and gas counterparts' ability to drill a hole into the ground and extract liquid minerals. Group 11 Technologies Inc., a US-based technology firm, aims to provide miners with a way to pump gold and other metals out of the ground. Group 11 is a planned partnership between Golden Predator Mining Corp., EnviroLeach Technologies Inc. and enCore Energy Corp. that will use EnviroLeach's proprietary formula, which...

  • BMW unveils Concept i4 electric Gran Coupe

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 2, 2022

    BMW Group has unveiled its Concept i4, a gran coupe that brings fully electric vehicles to the core of the BMW brand. "The design is dynamic, clean and elegant. In short: a perfect BMW that happens to be zero emission," Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design said when describing the Concept i4. The concept revealed on March 2 represents a look ahead to the BMW i4, slated to enter production in 2021. BMW said the Concept i4 blends a modern, elegantly...