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  • Group 11 Technologies GFG Resources Rattlesnake Hills gold Wyoming in-situ

    Wyoming is ideal for in situ gold mining

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

    Group 11 Technologies Inc. believes that GFG Resources Inc.'s Rattlesnake Hills project about 60 miles southwest of Casper, Wyoming is the ideal place to prove the viability of its proprietary means of recovering gold from the earth without mining. This technique, known as in-situ recovery, is a non-invasive method that involves circulating fluids underground that dissolve the sought metals and then pumping the fluids back to the surface to extract the metals – reverse of the...

  • DOE e-mobility funding SuperTruck 18-wheeler electric freight truck green energy

    DOE offers $162.75 million for e-mobility

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

    With transportation accounting for roughly 30% of America's energy consumption and the largest contributor to the country's greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Department of Energy is offering more than $162 million in funding to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions for cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles. "Getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 means we must aggressively cut down the largest source of emissions: the transportation sector," said Secretary of Ene...

  • BMW solid-state battery EVs prototype 2030 liquid electrolyte electric vehicle

    BMW solid-state battery prototype by 2025

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

    Seeing solid-state batteries as a game-changer for the automotive sector, BMW Group plans to have a prototype of this higher density electric storage technology ready for demonstration in less than four years and be commercially producing solid-state cells for use in its electric vehicles by 2030. "We are doing intensive research on solid-state battery technology," said Frank Weber, who heads BMW AG's development division. "By the end of the decade, we will be implementing an...

  • Texas Lance Gooden Vicente Gonzalez rare earths legislation RARE minerals Act

    Texas Reps reintroduce RARE minerals act

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

    A pair of Texas congressmen, Republican Lance Gooden and Democrat Vicente Gonzalez have introduced the Reclaiming American Rare Earths Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing America's dependence on China for rare earth elements and other minerals critical to the United States. The U.S. depends on foreign countries for more than 50% of its supply of 28 of the 35 minerals deemed critical to America's economic and national security, including 100% import-reliant for 14 of...

  • American Battery Technology Company Biden DOE Doug Cole EVs Menka Sethi

    Addressing battery metal recycling risks

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

    Answering the Biden administration's call for industry input on the risks to battery supply chains in the United States, American Battery Metals Corp. said accelerating lithium-ion battery recycling and next-generation extraction technologies is one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly ways to increase the supply of the battery-grade nickel, cobalt, lithium, and other materials needed for the transition to electric vehicles. "Unlike fossil fuels, elemental...

  • ASTRO America metal 3D printing U.S. Army Jointless Hull Project Jason Gorey

    Astro develops world's largest 3D printer

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    The assembly line forever changed the way production of goods were developed, launching mankind into the industrial era. Now, the next step gets a little sci-fi with ASTRO America developing the world's largest metal 3D printer for ground vehicle production. Like those cool scenes in futuristic movies, with incredible production from multidirectional assemblies with too many mechanical arms to count. While not quite there, the next steps have begun to take shape with a...

  • TechMet Brian Menell EV revolution inflection point nickel cobalt lithium tin

    TechMet closes $120M tech metals backing

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

    TechMet Ltd. continues to build strong financial support for its vision of building a portfolio of world-class projects that produce, process, and recycle technology metals critical to electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and energy storage. "TechMet's mission is to build ethical, independent, and environmentally sound supply chains for the metals that are needed to ensure the success of this 21st-century clean energy and EV revolution," said TechMet Chairman and CEO...

  • AI artificial intelligence GoldSpot Discoveries TRU Precious Metals Newfoundland

    GoldSpot AI returns to Newfoundland

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    Artificial intelligence aficionado, GoldSpot Discoveries Corp. has announced yet another partnership in using its proprietary machine learning technology to supplement the search for precious metals with a contract by TRU Precious Metals Corp. for its Golden Rose and Twilite Gold projects in the prolific Central Newfoundland Gold Belt. Returning to Newfoundland after its work with Exploits Discovery Corp., GoldSpot has been tasked with combing through samples and compiling...