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Casey reported in a well-done article in late April 2024 that rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 metallic elements, including scandium, yttrium, and the 15 lanthanides, known for their unique magnetic, luminescent, and electrochemical properties. These characteristics make them essential in the production of various high-tech devices and applications, such as smartphones, computers, electric vehicles, and renewable energy technologies like wind turbines and solar panels.
Given their critical role in modern technology, fluctuation...
Read More...US EIA released the April Monthly Energy Review om April 25, 2024 of recent and historical U.S. energy statistics. Included are statistics on total energy production, consumption, stocks, trade, and energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, and renewable energy; carbon dioxide emissions; and data unit conversions.
Release of the MER is in keeping with responsibilities given to EIA in Public Law 95–91 (Department of Energy Organization
Act), which states, in part, in Section 205(a)(2):
“The Ad...
Read More...Yancey opined in mid-2023 that Purdue University, a North Carolina steel company, a Texas chemical plant, an Indonesian ammonia factory and lots of others. Here’s an overview of the growing interest in the SMR technology.
The LENOWISCO study looked at seven potential sites in Southwest
Virginia, as well as at several different types of SMRs. Sample designs
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Get access to the Geologize online courses, especially "Practical Geocommunication 3.0". The American Geosciences Institute (AGI), in partnership with the AAPG Foundation, is offering members of the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and other AGI member societies access to some programs. The courses will provide lessons, quizzes, assignments, and direct interaction with the course instructor, Dr. Haydon Mort, through forums.
It is vital to effectively communicate geoscience to the public and other stakeholders and the course pr...
Read More...Milidragovic and five co-authors reported in 2015 that the Otish Basin of central Québec hosts over thirty uranium prospects, including the Camie River prospect that is located near the unconformable contact between the graphite-bearing, metamorphic basement of Archean age and the overlying basinal sedimentary rocks of the Otish Supergroup.
Geological map of the Otish Basin (modified from Lesbros-Piat-Desvial, 2014),
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Saribudak reported in mid-April 2024 that over 70% of Houston Geological Society members live in Harris County, Texas and many of those members are interested to learn more about the geology of the area. It is easy to see how geologic processes shape the landscape of Harris County after episodic events such as hurricanes or flooding, but other geologic processes such as faulting and subsidence are subtly at work over geologic timescales.
Map of well-documented faults in Harris County, ...
Read More...Davis reported on mid-April 2024 that SMR component manufacturer BWX Technologies (BWXT) will invest $80 million in equipment and expansions in Cambridge and Kitchener that are expected to create more than 200 jobs.
Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith speaks during an announcement at BWXT
in Cambridge. The company is investing $80 million in an expansion and new
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Brazilian Critical Minerals Limited announced a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Ema and Ema East projects (collectively Ema), forming part of the Company´s wholly owned REE projects, Apuí, Amazon, Brazil at a cut-off of 500 ppm the Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate contains 1,017 Million tonnes @ 793 ppm TREO.
Highlights
Mineral sands miner Base Resources Ltd and US-based Energy Fuels Inc. have announced plans to merge to create a global critical minerals business, which will focus on development of the “world-class” Toliara project in Madagascar. ASX- and AIM-listed Base Resources is an established mid cap “pure” mineral sands company, with operations also in Kenya. NYSE- and TSX-listed Energy Fuels Inc. is a leading U.S. producer of uranium, rare earth elements (REEs), and vanadium.
The companies said on April 22 that they have reached a binding agr...
Read More...Boiron and 7 co-authors reported in 2002 that significant fracture and porosity sealing characterizes the sedimentary cover-basement interface in the northwestern margin of the Aquitaine Basin (France). Dolomite and calcite (and sometimes fluorite, barite and quartz) constitute most of the fracture.
The above graphic illistrates a schematic model of the hydrothermal circulations within the Charroux– Civray plutonic complex at the unconformity surface. 1—Tertiary cover; 2—Mesozoic limestones; 3—Impermeable shales, Toarcian formation; 4...