OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS OF CRITICAL MINERALS MANAGEMENT IN POLAND

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Radwanek-Bak
Keyword(s):  
Critical Minerals

scholarly journals Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources

Resources ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin McLellan ◽  
Eiji Yamasue ◽  
Tetsuo Tezuka ◽  
Glen Corder ◽  
Artem Golev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unconventional Resources ◽  
Critical Minerals

Uranium and Vanadium Resources of Utah: An Update in the Era of Critical Minerals and Carbon Neutrality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E. Mills ◽  
Bear Jordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
San Juan County ◽  
Critical Minerals

Utah is the second largest vanadium producing state and the third largest uranium producing state in the United States. Carnotite, a primary ore mineral for both vanadium and uranium, was first discovered and used by Native Americans as a source of pigment in the Colorado Plateau hysiographic province of eastern Utah. Radioactive deposits have been ommercially mined in Utah since about 1900, starting with radium, followed by vanadium, and thenuranium. In 1952, the discovery of the Mi Vida mine in Utah’s Lisbon Valley mining district in San Juan County kicked off a uranium exploration rush across the Colorado Plateau. As a result, the United States dominated the global uranium market from the early 1950s to late 1970s. In the modern mining era, Utah is an important contributor to the domestic uranium and vanadium markets with the only operating conventional uranium-vanadium mill in the country, multiple uranium-vanadium mines on standby, and active uranium-vanadium exploration. Overall, Utah has produced an estimated 122 million lbs U3O8 and 136 million lbs V2O5 since 1904. Most of this production has been from the sandstone-hosted deposits of the Paradox Basin, with minor production from volcanogenic deposits and as byproducts from other operations across the state

Critical minerals demand will boost Canadian mining

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Critical Minerals

Significance Although low commodity prices deterred investment in recent years, this is changing as the market rallies. The creation of a regional electric vehicle (EV) supply chain straddling the Canada-US border has the potential to transform the Canadian mining sector while loosening China’s grip on the minerals used in high-performance batteries. Impacts Canada is the world’s eighth-largest cobalt producer and has significant copper, graphite and rare earth deposits. Fortune Minerals, which is developing a cobalt mine in Northwest Territories, has held funding talks with the US Export/Import Bank. First Cobalt is building North America’s only cobalt refinery to give battery makers an alternative source to the DRC. Several of the country’s mines are using cutting-edge technologies to reduce their carbon emissions.

Greenland and the geopolitics of critical minerals

One Earth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 1674-1675
Author(s):  
Mark Nuttall
Keyword(s):  
Critical Minerals

scholarly journals Understanding Consumer E-Waste Recycling Behavior: Introducing a New Economic Incentive to Increase the Collection Rates

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Shevchenko ◽  
Kirsi Laitala ◽  
Yuriy Danko
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Card System ◽  
Critical Minerals

Consumer electronics are made of a wide range of materials, including precious metals and critical minerals with limited global reserves. Ensuring the recycling of these materials is essential for future use, especially since many renewable energy solutions are based on them. In addition, improper end-of-life treatments of these products cause harm to the environment and human health. This study explores the incentives that have been used to increase consumer collection rates for end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment (EoL EEE). Based on extensive global literature reviews, we propose an alternative to existing consumer incentives. The research suggests that implementing an economic incentive based on the electronic bonus card system (EBCS) has several benefits compared to existing incentives. It compensates the consumers for the transaction costs of proper collection and satisfies the consumer perception of EoL EEE as having a residual value. However, application of the EBCS motivation technology will require the cooperation of various stakeholders, including electronics producers and national and international authorities.

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