The Minerals Council of Australia, Mining Education Australia and the University of Queensland launched this week the Mine Solar Car Lab – a new 3D digital game for Minecraft’s Education Edition. The idea is that elementary school students and teachers use the Minecraft education platform to learn about different minerals and metals sourced in Australia ... Video game to teach Australian kids about minerals for electric cars
MINEX Forum | July 11, 2019 The Minerals Council of Australia, Mining Education Australia and the University of Queensland launched this week the Mine Solar Car Lab – a new 3D digital game for Minecraft’s Education Edition. The idea is that elementary school students and teachers use the Minecraft education platform to learn about different minerals and metals sourced in Australia ... 
The economist John Maynard Keynes famously called gold a “barbarous relic”, suggesting that its usefulness as money is an artifact of the past. In an era filled with cashless transactions and hundreds of cryptocurrencies, this statement seems truer today than in Keynes’ time. However, gold also possesses elemental properties that has made it an ideal ... 
An iron meteorite that was found in 2016 in Buryatia, southern Russia, provided the keys for the discovery of a new mineral called ‘uakitite,’ which is associated with sulfides, schreibersite and magnetite. The discovery was made by researchers from the Ural Federal University, Novosibirsk State University and the Geological Institute at the Siberian Branch of the ... 
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory discovered a first-of-its-kind copper and graphite combination that, they say, could have implications for improving the energy efficiency of lithium-ion batteries. The discovery took place after they bombarded graphite in an ultra-high vacuum environment with ions to create surface defects. Copper was then deposited on the ... 
EVEN the rise of electric vehicles and alternative fuels has done little to dampen the confidence of Vladimir Litvinenko, rector of the Saint Petersburg Mining University in Russia. For the past 245 years, through times of peace, war and revolution, the university has churned out the best and the brightest for the mining and energy ... 
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a pilot-scale project led by University of Kentucky Professor of Mining Engineering Rick Honaker to move on to a second phase of research in an effort to recover rare earth elements (REE) from coal and coal byproducts. DOE will invest $6 million in Honaker’s project and project ... 
Scientists have just achieved what it seemed impossible — they have successfully recreated conditions present in Neptune and Uranus to make it rain diamonds. The team, formed by American, British and German researchers, were able to mimic environments found deep inside those two icy giant planets of our Solar System and watched as tiny diamonds formed, ... 
Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over the flooding incident in the Alrosa diamond company’s Mir mine, located in the Siberian Republic of Yakutia, a source in the committee’s press service told TASS. “The Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case in accordance with Article 216.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (breach of ... 
It’s sounds too good to be true, but a new company is proving miners they can foresee opposition or any other form of social conflict related to their projects, before they even attempt going through a licencing process. Chalkstone, a UK-based company founded by Donald Bray, a political anthropologist and academic at the University of Cambridge, ... 
A month ago Outotec’s experts participated in “Technotour RCC” at Mikheyevsky Mining and Processing Plant (MPP), a subsidiary of Russian Copper Company. The main purpose of the event was to showcase the MPP as a state-of-the-art plant and, importantly, provide future mining engineers with new experience. The participants had an opportunity to visit the new production ... 
The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), which is part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, will receive a grant of approximately €900,000 over the next three years to support the development of new technologies for the environmentally and socially sustainable as well as efficient exploration of natural resources, noted Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The EU funding will ... 
Image: bbc.com British scientists exploring an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean have discovered a treasure trove of rare minerals, BBC reported. Their investigation of a seamount more than 500km (300 miles) from the Canary Islands has revealed a crust of “astonishingly rich” rock. Samples brought back to the surface contain the scarce substance tellurium in concentrations ...