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  • Rhenium platinum aluminum superalloys jet turbine blades

    Pebble adds rhenium to world-class titles

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

    While the recent call from conservationists and sportsmen for the Trump administration to block permits has cast a shadow of doubt on the development of a mine at Pebble, there is no denying the controversial Alaska project encompasses a world-class store of precious, industrial and critical minerals. A recent recalculation of the Pebble resource shows the deposit hosts roughly a third of the world's known rhenium, an extremely rare metal that lends its exceptional heat...

  • Swiss researchers titanium nanowire filter paper mask UV radiation covid-19

    Titanium dioxide drafted in COVID fight

    Rose Ragsdale, For Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    Researchers in a Swiss laboratory have developed a membrane made of titanium oxide nanowires with antibacterial and antiviral properties. The membrane, which resembles filter paper, may be used in the fight to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic more effectively than paper masks, which are increasingly becoming made mandatory, according to scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. While the relative effectiveness of paper masks is no longer in...

  • titanium vanadium alloys aerospace redox renewable energy grid batteries

    U.S. Vanadium calls for government help

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    U.S. Vanadium Holding Company LLC, an Arkansas-based producer of high-purity vanadium pentoxide, is urging the United States government to take steps to bolster domestic production of vanadium. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, roughly 94% of the titanium used in the U.S. last year went into stronger, lighter, and more durable steels and other alloys. Vanadium-alloyed steels are used in virtually every high-strength structural steel application in military equipment,...

  • Rare earth element separation technology facility outside China

    Lynas secures site for Aussie REE facility

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    Lynas Corporation Ltd. Aug. 21 announced the signing of a sublease with the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder for a 135-hectare industrial-zoned site for its planned Kalgoorlie rare earth processing facility in Western Australia. "Securing the sub-lease for our new Kalgoorlie rare earth processing facility is another important milestone for our Kalgoorlie project and we thank the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Western Australian Government for their strong support," said Lynas...

  • Geological data mining using AI artificial intelligence gold targets Africa

    GoldSpot takes its AI expertise to Africa

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    GoldSpot Discoveries Corp. Aug. 20 announced that it will be applying its machine learning proprietary expertise to identify new exploration targets on Tembo Gold Corp.'s namesake gold project adjacent to Acacia Mining's 20-million-ounce Bulyanhulu Gold Mine in Tanzania's Lake Victoria Greenstone belt. "We are very pleased to have engaged the services of GoldSpot Discoveries to assist in our planned exploration activity on the prospective Tembo project," said Tembo Gold...