Minrom’s Post

📱💎 From the smartphones we can't live without to the sparkle of diamond rings, minerals are the unsung heroes behind the things we love. We all benefit from the hard work of miners and mineral resource professionals worldwide to ensure we have access to these essential natural resources. Watch this video by the University of Arizona School of Mining & Mineral Resources to discover the impact minerals have on our daily lives!

What are 'critical minerals'? Do you struggle to explain this complicated topic to your stakeholders and communities? ICYMI - super handy fact sheet Mia Pepper and I produced for Publish What You Payand Mineral Policy Institute All 4 fact sheets are available here https://lnkd.in/gcpsFKyZ #2 What are mineral sands? #3 What are rare earths? #4 What is lithium?

#criticalminerals: 🎉 in short supply 🎉 strategic - #energysecurity and #economicsecurity 🎉 geopolitically important 🎉 key for the #energytransition Critical minerals and artisanal mining: 🎉 #asm generates significant supply of #copper, #cobalt, #nickel, #tin, and many other critical minerals 🎉 ASM is largely informal - professionalization changes paradigms on the dignity and productivity of work 🎉 ASM professionalization catalyzes #sustainabledevelopment 🎉 ASM is strategic - a largely untapped opportunity for supply growth The Blended Capital Group and our partners are committed to reimagining outcomes in artisanal mining. Formalization delivers game changing outcomes on the dignity and productivity of work, compelling for #mininginvestment and #impactinvestment. ASM is strategically important, a clear opportunity for bridging supply gaps that are key for #netzero. Reach out to discuss. Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) Levin Sources BanQu Inc. Napier Meridian #esg #sdgs #responsiblemining #sustainablemining

Executives from silver mining producers are asking Canadian government officials to recognize silver as a critical mineral. Such a classification would help reduce government impediments to mining activities. In a letter signed by almost two dozen mining executives – addressed to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson – the industry outlined the reasoning behind their push for silver to be included on the "critical minerals" list. Watch this video with David Morgan and Keith Neumeyer, CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp., regarding this important issue. https://lnkd.in/eTv8Wr7F #silver #mining #ETF #preciousmetals #minerals

🚨 The sobriquet critical minerals is being applied liberally to so many elements on the Periodic Table that it is in danger of losing its potency as one metal sector after another seeks to be admitted into the cadre of elements worthy of government and investor attention. Making it onto a critical minerals list does not automatically give critical mineral project developers immediate access to money, but you would not know this by looking at their corporate presentation. #criticalminerals #mininginvestment #mining #investing #us Paul Harris writes Precious Metals Commodity Management LLC Commodity Discovery Fund Hallgarten + Company Fastmarkets https://lnkd.in/e4jx8jWJ

Lunnon Metals Ltd (ASX:LM8, OTC:LNMLF) managing director Ed Ainscough provides Proactive’s Jonathan Jackson with an update on the Long South Gap exploration program at the Silver Lake-Fisher (SLF) Project in the Kambalda #nickel district. The Long South Gap, an underexplored 5.8-square-kilometre area, lies adjacent to the historical Silver Lake mine and the Kambalda Dome. Processing and analysis of 3D seismic survey data collected in late 2023 by Southern Geoscience Consultants Pty Ltd (SGC) revealed a previously unrecognised channel feature potentially rich in nickel. This channel is approximately 1-kilometre long, 100-150 metres wide, starting at 670 metres below the surface and plunges at a 40° angle. It is halfway between Wyloo’s McLeay channel and Lunnon’s Silver Lake channels, offset 700 metres from McLeay channel due to the Alpha Island fault. Watch at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors #BatteryMetals #CriticalMinerals #NickelMining https://lnkd.in/e7Fe6xd9

(Fig. 1. Boojumite crystals) • The new minerals boojumite and kennygayite were found in the Redmond mine, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA, where they occur in a highly unusual secondary assemblage that comprises a variety of rare Pb-Zn-Cu sulfates, thiosulfates, and carbonates. • The structures of boojumite and kennygayite are both based on chains of edge-sharing oxocentered OPb4 tetrahedra. The chain in boojumite is sinuous, whereas that in kennygayite is zig-zag. • The ideal formula of boojumite is Pb8O4(OH)2(S2O3)3. • The ideal formula of kennygayite is [Pb4O2(OH)2](SO4). New Minerals from the Redmond Mine, North Carolina, USA: VI. Boojumite and Kennygayite, Two New Minerals with Structures Based on Chains of Oxocentered OPb4 Tetrahedra A.R. Kampf, J.B. Smith, J.M. Hughes, C. Ma, & C. Emproto https://lnkd.in/dug9xCG4

New and expanded high-grade #lithium zones identified at North American Lithium, indicating the potential for a significant mineral resource upgrade and possible mine life extension. https://bit.ly/3wAXz06 

Mineral Matters # 304 - Minerals of the East Eifel, Germany - Part 2 #mineralmatters, #minerals