Power grids: down to the wire?
…cable demand is more likely to stoke aluminium than copper. Leading global copper producers and leading global aluminium producers are discussed on pages 8 and 9. Circuit kilometers needed for…
Electrical conductivity: energy transition materials?
…copper demand trebling in the energy transition. Aluminium is c50% more resistive than copper, but it is also 70% lighter and stronger, which explains why it is used in overhead…
Commodity prices: metals, materials and chemicals?
…prices, Battery Graphite prices, Benzene prices, Butadiene prices, Carbon Fiber prices, Cement prices, Cobalt prices, Cobalt Oxide prices, Cold Rolled Steel prices, Concrete prices, Copper prices, Copper Wire prices, Cumene…
Electrowinning: costs and energy economics?
…than was possible with pyrometallurgy. Britain’s J. B. Elkington patented a copper electro-refining process in 1865. The world’s first electrorefinery started in 1869 at the Pembrey Copper works, Burry Port,…
Heap leaching: energy economics?
This data-file captures the energy economics of leaching processes in the mining industry, especially the costs of heap leaching, for the extraction of copper, nickel, gold, silver, other precious metals,…
Neodymium market: our top ten facts?
…chains that have crossed our screen, such as lithium, uranium or copper, and similar models could be translated across. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/07/15/lithium-reactive/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/uranium-mining-the-economics/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/copper-the-economics/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/energy-costs-of-mining-processes/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/mine-trucks-transport-economics/ (7) Where is it produced? Output…
Cobalt: leading producers?
…production, where the Katangan copper belt which has unique, stratiform sediment-hosted Copper-Cobalt ores. The remainder is co-produced with nickel, in countries such as Australia, Canada, Cuba, Finland, Madagascar, Philippines, PNG,…
Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?
…made of copper, which is more conductive. HVDCs are also encased in specialized plastics. New power transmission lines add 3-5MTpa of demand to aluminium markets, or 5-7% upside (note here)….
Carbon-negative plastics: a breakthrough?
…TOTAL’s 2019 patents stood out to us, as we reviewed 3,000 of the largest Energy Majors’ patents from last year. TOTAL has patented a group of boron-doped copper catalysts for…
Electrochemistry: battery voltage and the Nernst Equation?
…Charging a battery is simply running this same circuit in reverse. Likewise, electrowinning is an electrical technology used to separate metals from mixtures, such as aluminium, zinc, copper, silver and…