Bengaluru-based firm deploys drone-based technology for mineral prospecting and exploration

Bengaluru-based firm deploys drone-based technology for mineral prospecting and exploration

Bengaluru-based Squadrone Infra and Mining Pvt. Ltd has deployed Magarrow, a UAV-enabled drone-based technology, for mineral prospecting and exploration. The company deployed the technology at Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (GMDC), Ambaji, Gujarat. This technology is proficient in mineral exploration and mineral discovery, particularly in prospecting of copper, lithium, gold, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, manganese, […]

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Endangered status sought for snail near Nevada lithium mine

Endangered status sought for snail near Nevada lithium mine

Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiny snail half the size of a pea that is known to exist only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada along the Oregon state line. The Western Watersheds Project filed the listing petition last week with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]

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Electric car battery bottlenecks have a way of being worked out

Electric car battery bottlenecks have a way of being worked out

Supply of battery materials was a key part of the recently passed climate bill in the US, as the country looks to bring online more domestic refining and manufacturing in the coming decade. The electric-vehicle battery news cycle feels especially frenetic right now, with some groups predicting a decade of shortages for materials like lithium. […]

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Toyota-Panasonic battery joint venture to buy lithium from ioneer’s Nevada mine for EVs

Toyota-Panasonic battery joint venture to buy lithium from ioneer’s Nevada mine for EVs

The joint venture will allow the purchase of lithium to make electric vehicle batteries in the United States The joint venture will allow the purchase of lithium to make electric vehicle batteries in the United States A joint battery venture of Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp will buy lithium from ioneer Ltd’s Rhyolite Ridge […]

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