Climate change and the production of iron and steel
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The World Steel Association (worldsteel) today releases a public policy paper, Climate change and the production of
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Recycling &Environment
Mining and metals: risk from carbon policy
The contest towards net zero is well and truly underway, and miners and metallurgists are under pressure to pick up
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Gold Fields to build South Deep Solar Plant
The Gold Fields Board this week gave the green light for the construction of a 40MW solar plant at the
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Biden pledges for US greenhouse gas emissions cut
US President Joe Biden opened a global summit on climate change by announcing that the United States will aim to
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Glencore Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report
Baar, Switzerland – Glencore has published its 2020 Sustainability Report. The Report aligns with the Global Reporting Index’s reporting requirements,
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Barrick Gold updates its evolving emissions reduction target
Toronto – Barrick Gold Corporation’s ESG strategy delivered tangible results in 2020, including an update to its greenhouse gas emissions
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Minerals Council endorses global standard on tailings management
The management of tailings storage facilities in terms of safety, the protection of society and the environment in South Africa
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China unveils nationwide carbon trading market
World’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases China has flipped the switch on a nationwide carbon trading market on 1 February
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Gold Fields gets approval for South Deep solar plant
Johannesburg – Gold Fields says it welcomes the electricity generation licence approved today by the National Energy Regulator of South
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BHP reports exceptional loss due to Samarco dam failure
BHP reports it remains committed to supporting the Renova Foundation and its work to progress the remediation and compensatory programs
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SASOL Statement: Sulphur emission enquiry Pretoria and Johannesburg region
Date: 16 February 2021 Sasol can confirm that recently our Secunda Operations in Mpumalanga have been stable with no operational incidents
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Sulphide stench fills the air in Gauteng. Why?
Gauteng residents have experienced a sulphide stench from early Saturday morning. The cause of the smell is not unknown as
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Hydrogen project to decarbonize major European ceramic cluster
VALENCIA/WOLLERAU/DRESDEN/ROMA – An international consortium of 40 organisations from Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Greece, led by ETRA, structure financed
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Norilsk Nickel ordered to pay US$1.9 billion for enviro damages
MOSCOW – The court’s decision to collect 146.2 billion rubles ($1.9 bln) from Norilsk Nickel as compensation for environmental damage
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Hydrovolt starts to construct world-leading battery recycling plant
Hydrovolt is building Norway’s first plant for recycling electric vehicle batteries. The plant will have the capacity to process more
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Russian steelmaker to further reduce its climate imprint
Natural gas producer NOVATEK and Russian steel giant LMK Group have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of
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Steelmaker uses blue hydrogen for climate-neutral production
GERMANY – Steel producer thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, Norwegian based broad energy company Equinor and gas transmission system operator OGE and
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Largest steelmaker to use natural gas at its blast furnace
The natural gas supplier VNG Handel & Vertrieb and ArcelorMittal will cooperate to make the production of steel products at
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Samarco restarts iron ore pellet plant 5 years after disaster
Samarco has met the licensing requirements to restart operations at its Germano complex in Minas Gerais and its Ubu complex
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Danieli burners to take a step ahead in green steel
The new, Danieli Centro Combustion hydrogen multi-air burner operates with a methane and hydrogen mixture to reduce CO2 emissions. Through
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UK to end support for fossil fuel sector overseas
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced an end to the UK Government’s direct support for the fossil fuel
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Shell & AMG to build recycling “Supercenter” in Saudi Arabia
AMSTERDAM – The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), Shell & AMG Recycling B.V. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
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Glencore to be a net-zero emissions company by 2050
SWITZERLAND – The world is facing the challenge of meeting the increasing energy needs of a growing population, while radically
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AMG to build spent catalyst recycling facility
AMSTERDAM – AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. has announced that Shell & AMG Recycling B.V. signed a memorandum of understanding
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Salzgitter plant: What happens during battery recycling?
First, the returns will be analysed. After that, there are two paths: either the battery is given a so-called “second
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AMY achieves 99.7% extraction of lithium-ion battery material
SURREY, B.C., CANADA – American Manganese Inc. (AMY) has reported that the RecycLiCo pilot plant leach stages achieved 99.7% extraction
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Managing dust by the steel industry
Regulatory authorities often believe that imposing a specific abatement technology to manage air quality is the solution to cut emissions.
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Primobius and InoBat to operate lithium-ion battery recycling facility
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA – Lithium battery recycling process designed to generate low CO2 emissions and to deliver high purity chemicals back
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EAF steelmaking can’t address decarbonisation challenge alone
Steel is manufactured by two main process routes (1) the integrated steelmaking process featuring the blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace (BF/BOF),
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Life cycle thinking: key to every aspect of sustainability
To understand the environmental performance of a product, its entire life cycle needs to be considered. A life cycle assessment
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