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Window Exploring South East Asia’s

powered premiere nickel sulfide district

electricity AN ADVANCED NICKEL SULFIDE PROJECT

Ta Khoa Project (Nickel-Coper-Cobalt-PGE),
Vietnam
emi-transparent solar cells that can be This technology will transform windows into agency, CSIRO, used a different approach.
Sincorporated into window glass are a ga- active power generators, potentially revolu- They used an organic semiconductor that • Ban Phuc Mine operated from 2013 to 2016,
mechanger that could transform architecture, tionising building design. Two square metres can be made into a polymer and used it to mining 975kt @ 2.4% Ni & 1.0% Cu for 20.7kt
urban planning and electricity generation, of solar window, the researchers say, will gen- replace a commonly used solar cell com- Ni & 10.1kt Cu;
Australian scientists say in a paper in Nano erate about as much electricity as a standard ponent (known as Spiro-OMeTAD), which
Energy. rooftop solar panel. shows very low stability because it develops • Existing infrastructure built to Australian
The researchers – led by Professor Jacek The research was also supported by the an unhelpful watery coating. The substitute Standards includes a 450ktpa concentrator
Jasieniak from the ARC Centre of Excel- Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARE- produced astonishing results. and a modern mechanised underground mine
lence in Exciton Science (Exciton Science) NA). “Rooftop solar has a conversion efficiency located within a premier nickel sulfide district;
and Monash University – have succeeded in The idea of semi-transparent solar cells is of between 15 and 20%,” Jacek said. • Invested capital in excess of US$136m
producing next-gen perovskite solar cells that not new, but previous designs have failed be- “The semi-transparent cells have a conver- generated US$213m in revenue and paid total
generate electricity while allowing light to pass cause they were very expensive, unstable or sion efficiency of 17%, while still transmitting contributions to government of US$65m
through. They are now investigating how the inefficient. more than 10% of the incoming light, so they during a 3.5 year period of falling nickel
new technology could be built into commer- Professor Jasieniak and colleagues from are right in the zone. It’s long been a dream prices;
cial products with Viridian Glass, Australia’s Monash’s Materials Science and Engineering to have windows that generate electricity, and
largest glass manufacturer. Department and Australia’s national science now that looks possible.” • Alliance with Korea’s largest electric vehicle
battery cathode producer, Ecopro BM Co –
$6.8m raised in April at a 62% premium
• Drilling is ongoing with four rigs on site;
InDeX exploration will include both infill drilling,
targeting the known Ban Phuc disseminated
sulfide zone, as well as step out drilling,
Agrimin 23, 24, 33 Danakali 23, 24, 27, 28 Kore 23, 27, 48-49 Paladin 13
Andromeda 54 Davenport 23, 24, 27, 31 Panoramic 16, 56 testing newly identified targets;
Anglo American 4, 23-25, 33 Deep Yellow 12-13 Lake 42 PanTerra 56 • Shallow, high grade disseminated nickel
35, 37, 48-49 DevEx 54 Legend 5, 18, 20, 54 PC Gold 9 sulfide mineralisation continues to be
AngloGold 50 Lepidico 56 Perpetual 56 intersected at the King Cobra Zone with
Atlas Iron 52, 56 Emmerson 56 Liontown 54 Poseidon 16 significant results including 39m @ 1.1%
Auris 56 Energy Metals 56 Lithium Consolidated 56 Predictive 50 Ni and 28m @ 1.2% Ni from near surface –
Australian Potash 23, 24, 26, 35 Evolution 8, 56 Los Cerros 37 drilling continues to intersect the KCZ over
AuTeco 9 Exore 56 Lundin Gold 40 Resolute 50, 51 200m of strike length;
Reward 23, 24, 34
B2Gold 46 First Mining 9 Magnis 56 Rio Tinto 25, 52 • EM and IP surveys underway;
Bannerman 12-13 First Quantum 37 Mali Lithium 56 Roxgold 56 • Previously unrecognised PGE grades
Bardoc 8 Force 56 Managem 50 Roy Hill 52 suggest a potential by-product credit could
Battery Minerals 56 Freeport 37 Mandalay 8 significantly enhance the future economics of
BCI 10 Mandrake 54 Salt Lake 23, 24, 26, 29 the project;
Bellevue 9 Galileo 18 Metal Hawk 55 Saturn 56
BHP 4, 25, 35, 37, 49, 53 Glencore 37 Metalsearch 56 Sky 54 • Blackstone is fully funded to deliver a maiden
Big River 38 MetalsTech 55 Solgold 40 resource and a scoping study by mid 2020
Hampton Hill 55 Meteoric 38 Southern Hemisphere 56
Cameco 12-13 Highfield 23, 24, 27, 31, 32 Middle Island 55 St George 5
Cassini 5, 54 Hillgrove 56 Mineral Resources 10, 52
Castillo 56 Horizon Gold 56 Minotaur 54, 56 Tanga 56
Celamin 30 Teck 37
Chalice 5, 19, 20, 54 Jadar 56 Navarre 56 Tempus 40-41
Cleveland 4 Newmont 36 Tiger 48
Coziron 56 Kalium Lakes 23, 34, 56 Nutrien 4, 25 Torian 56
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