Sentences with phrase «producing cobalt»

Brazilian miner Vale S.A. already produces cobalt in Canada as part of a nickel concentrate from its Voisey's Bay mine in Labrador, while Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. owns dormant cobalt - related assets in northern Ontario.
The NICO Project is a development stage primary cobalt asset consisting of a planned mine, mill and concentrator in the Northwest Territories and hydrometallurgical refinery in Saskatchewan to produce cobalt sulphate, gold, bismuth ingot and oxide, and copper cement.
In early January, Amnesty International and Afrewatch issued a report charging that children as young as 7 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working in perilous conditions to produce cobalt used in the lithium - ion batteries that power smartphones and electric cars.

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Producing its first metal from the Bulong nickel / cobalt project has set a new precedent for WA - based miner Preston Resources Limited.
Fortune is currently focused on advancing the vertically integrated NICO cobalt - gold - bismuth - copper project, comprised of a proposed mine and mill in the Northwest Territories that will produce a bulk concentrate for shipment to a refinery that the Company plans to construct in Saskatchewan.
SHANGHAI BHP Billiton is expanding its business as a supplier of battery minerals at its nickel refinery in Western Australia, planning to start producing nickel sulphate next year and looking at cobalt output as well, a company executive said.
The products that will be produced at the refinery include cobalt chemicals used to make high performance rechargeable batteries, bismuth metals and chemicals, as well as gold.
AH: In April we are launching a price forecast for cobalt and other electric metals, produced by our expert, independent analysts led by veteran base metals commentator Will Adams, who has been digging deep into the fundamental data and market dynamics.
Mr Musk said the carmaker had reduced the amount of cobalt in its Nickel - Cobalt - Aluminium battery cells produced by Panasonic below rival battery companies who use a different chemistry.Korean battery companies such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI, who produce Nickel - Manganese - Cobalt batteries, are expected to commercialise a lower - cobalt battery chemistry by nextcobalt in its Nickel - Cobalt - Aluminium battery cells produced by Panasonic below rival battery companies who use a different chemistry.Korean battery companies such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI, who produce Nickel - Manganese - Cobalt batteries, are expected to commercialise a lower - cobalt battery chemistry by nextCobalt - Aluminium battery cells produced by Panasonic below rival battery companies who use a different chemistry.Korean battery companies such as LG Chem and Samsung SDI, who produce Nickel - Manganese - Cobalt batteries, are expected to commercialise a lower - cobalt battery chemistry by nextCobalt batteries, are expected to commercialise a lower - cobalt battery chemistry by nextcobalt battery chemistry by next year.
You will certainly have area plays; stories associated with cobalt in mafic and ultramafic complexes around the world, including Canada and Australia, but my experience has been that the concentrations of cobalt, particularly in Canada, are never large enough that Canadian companies can be low on the cost curve unless they're producing it as a by - product of nickel or some other ultramafic substances.
** POSCO, South Korea's top steelmaker, said it will set up two joint ventures to produce lithium - ion battery materials with China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, one of China's top cobalt prodCobalt, one of China's top cobalt prodcobalt producers.
Consider Congo, which produces roughly two - thirds of the world's cobalt, an essential component in lithium - ion batteries.
This year alone, the company believes it will produce as much as 39,000 metric tons of cobalt, up 42 percent from 27,400 tons last year.
It also contains the highest amount of cobalt among all the vegetables, which is essential to produce insulin, thus making kabocha diabetic - friendly.
Cobalt - 60, for example, is used to sterilize medical equipment, produce radiation for cancer treatment, and preserve food, among many other applications.
This process produced a solar cell with a junction of metal (cobalt), a silicon - based insulator (SiOx), and a semiconductor.
To produce a commercially viable device, Sun is exploring the use of carbon and cobalt - based cathodes, with which he hopes to ultimately reach a solar - to - hydrogen efficiency of around 10 per cent.
The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.
They made a hose from a cylinder of superconducting material filled with a highly magnetic cobalt - iron alloy, then ran a current through a coil at one end to produce a field (arxiv.org/abs/1304.6300).
The DRC produces half the world's cobalt, used in batteries, and is also an important source of gold and the «three Ts» — tungsten, tin and tantalum — which are present in the capacitors and circuitry in phones.
Finally, thanks to the efforts of Muller and Scott; the French team at RPR; and Battersby's Cambridge group, chemists now know that the cobalt atom appears at the centre of the vitamin's ring at a different stage in the pathway, depending on whether the particular B12 - producing organism is anaerobic or aerobic.
With further development, this knowledge can be applied to produce samarium cobalt permanent magnets with improved magnetic performance.
These new catalysts are produced through the simultaneous control of the: 1) composition, 2) size and 3) crystallinity of metal oxides of earth - abundant elements such as iron, cobalt and nickel.
A scanning electron microscope image shows cobalt - infused metal oxide - laser induced graphene produced at Rice University.
A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.
That's what it feels like for scientists reading the reaction that uses a cobalt catalyst to produce hydrogen.
This Fairlady Z is very rare with Nissan only producing 22 convertible's with this beautiful color combo Cobalt Green Pearl over Cream leather interior accented with suede & the only year factory chrome wheels were available!
Sherritt International Corp., symbol S on Toronto, is a diversified natural - resource company that produces nickel, cobalt, thermal coal, oil and gas.
I did find this a tad weird: «The African nation produces more than 60 percent of the world's cobalt, a fifth of which is drawn out by artisanal miners who work with their hands — some of whom are children.»
At the same time, in cobalt - producing regions of Congo, child laborers are being employed, women are spending their days washing minerals, and babies are being born with shocking, rarely - seen birth defects.
LG Chem, a battery supplier to GM and Ford, says its cobalt comes from New Caledonia, despite the suspicious fact that LG Chem «consumes more cobalt than the entire nation of New Caledonia produces, according to analysts and publicly available data.»
The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.
The dam will generate power for nearby mines, which produce copper and cobalt for China's industry.
A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.
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