Silver and gold: the economics?
…to cart This model captures the entire mining-refining process for silver and gold. Ore is mined from a medium-grade gold-silver deposit. The ore is crushed, concentrated, roasted and leached. PGMs…
Silver and gold: medal winners?
…for well-run gold-silver incumbents? $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Gold and silver are well-known stores of value, going back over 11,000 years. They may protect value in a world of…
Silver pastes for solar contacts?
50 companies make conductive silver pastes to form electrical contacts in solar modules. This data-file tabulates the compositions of silver pastes based on patents, averaging 85% silver, 4% glass frit…
Solar contacts: silver bullet?
The front contacts in today’s solar cells are made of screen-printed silver. Thus solar cells absorbed 11% of 2021’s silver market, and growing. Solar silver contacts can be substituted with…
Solar surface: silver thrifting?
…kg/kW) (page 3). A silver case study. Silver intensity of the average installed solar module has recently halved. So can it halve again? Important uses of silver are in the…
Silver demand: upside and substitution?
Silver demand in energy transition will most likely tighten the global silver market by 10-30% over the course of the 2020s. This reflects upside in solar, electric vehicles, thrifting, and…
Silver producers: leading companies?
…in the screen is c25% exposed to silver. 40% of the output is from gold-silver producers (c45% average silver exposure), 20% from gold producers (20% exposure), 25% is from copper…
Natural hydrogen: going for gold?
Vast quantities of gold hydrogen are produced in the Earth’s subsurface, via the serpentinization of iron-containing Peridotite rocks. Gold, white and orange hydrogen variations aim to harness this hydrogen. This…
Gold hydrogen: the economics?
Gold hydrogen could be recovered from the Earth’s subsurface, with costs ranging from $0.3-10/kg, and CO2 intensities of 0.2-5.0 kg/kg. This data-file models the economic costs of gold hydrogen, and…
Cyanide production: the economics?
…NaCN can easily be double normal levels. This matters for the gold and silver mining industries. Gold and silver form soluble coordination complexes with cyanide ions, which in turn makes…