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  • Sulphuric acid: production facilities?

    Sulphuric acid: production facilities?

    This data-file profiles simple details into facilities that produce sulphuric acid. This is one of the largest commodity chemical markets in the world, at around 270MTpa. Around two-thirds of the sulphur is sourced from the oil and gas industry, for example, in refineries and natural gas production facilities.

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  • Jetti Resources: copper leaching breakthrough?

    Jetti Resources: copper leaching breakthrough?

    Jetti Resources has developed a breakthrough technology to recover copper from low-grade sulfide ores, by leaching with sulphuric acid, thiocarbonyls, ferric iron (III) sulphates and oxidizing bacteria. The patents lock up the technology, with detailed experimental data. But what are the costs of copper production, what CO2 intensity and what technical challenges remain?

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  • Copper: the economics?

    Copper: the economics?

    The economic cost of copper production is build up from first princples in this model, from mine, to concentrator, to smelter to 99.99% pure copper cathodes. Our base case is $7.5/kg copper cathode, with 4 tons/ton CO2 intensity, after starting from an 0.57% ore grade. Numbers vary sharply and can be stress-tested in the data-file.

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  • Energy transition: top commodities?

    Energy transition: top commodities?

    This data-file summarizes our latest thesis on ten commodities with upside in the energy transition. The average one will see demand rise by 3x and price/cost appreciate or re-inflate by 100%. The data-file contains a 6-10 line summary of our work into each commodity.

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  • Sulphur recovery units: Claus process economics?

    Sulphur recovery units: Claus process economics?

    This data-file captures the economics of producing sulphur from H2S via the Claus process, yielding an important input for phosphate fertilizers and metals. Cash costs are $40-60/ton and marginal costs are $100/ton. CO2 intensity is low at 0.1 tons/ton. Data-file explores shortages in energy transition?

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  • Heap leaching: energy economics?

    Heap leaching: energy economics?

    This data-file captures the energy economics of leaching in the mining industry, especially the costs of heap leaching, for the extraction of copper, nickel, gold, silver, other precious metals, uranium, and Rare Earths. The data-file allows you to stress test costs in $/ton of ore, $/ton of metal, capex, opex, chemicals costs, energy intensity and…

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