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Tune out for the weekend guys β¦. Getting closer
Cheers Smickster have a good weekend as well.
Vir still had the same problems with copper cores.
Whilst I dont disagree with you say about Ali cables the problem with vir was the insulation itself.
modern twin and earth cables will last 40+ years under normal loading and some of that from the 70s has Aluminium too.
I wouldn't want it my house though as you rightly point out it can be hazardous as it's tends to make bad/brittle connections which come loose and can become a fire hazard.
Anyway have a good weekend as this is feeling a bit like work and I came here to get some climate change news. :-)
Flat for the week. I said a drift, so at least we avoided that π€·ββοΈ
What's your evidence for us being 'very close' just over a year ago? Was it the significantly higher share price? Did the market know about your 'very close'? So does our rock bottom price now mean we're not close?
Rampers gonna ramp π₯±
Nice reassuring end to the week and still this stays on a very tight price line for what seems and is months now... lots of discussion happening in the background for sure. We were very close just over a year ago but clearly something spooked the horses. Just watching and waiting...
ONWARDS &UPWARDS !!! have a great weekend all.
Good afternoon Smickster the Rubber insulation perished as it crumbled because aluminium cables heated up as resistance was double of that of copper.
The Board seems a much better place. Thanks.
This might help us
https://www.mining.com/us-department-of-energy-adds-copper-to-critical-minerals-list/
I don't think small copper explorers need to worry about competition from aluminum.
There again the Copper and Aluminium figures are based upon 'estimates' lol.
Ha ha β¦.. Sean
Nail on the head
Scrolling down in the article there's another article in the same journal about Copper being added to the critical list by the US. There's a graph (Fig. 3.2), which shows both Copper and Aluminium as critical, but Aluminium is a higher supply risk. Therefore, it's not much of an alternative to Copper.
AgArCu.
Don't be too hard on Quady, he's C&P'd all he can find, it would be unfair to push it any further.
The problem with VIR was nothing to do with aluminium and all about the deterioration of the insulation.
"ArAgCu there is a good reason we use copper today and not aluminium in cable's that carry mains voltage and higher.
That is the aluminium ones tend to catch fire."
We do use aluminum in cables. Particularly when they carry voltage higher than mains voltage. They do not catch fire.
As I said, and will repeat, if the current is high (like with 350kW EV charging using 800v at HIGH current) then we then to use copper at the moment.
Please read before replying. Nothing else you said was needed if you read what I said π
And the winner of Pub Bore of the Year 2023 goes to:
Well ladies and gentlemen, this year we actually have joint winners...
Not files I meant fires.
That's correct AgArCu.
That's why I referred to high current of EV's.
I said mains voltage and higher.
You will find aluminium was used, but VIR ( Vulcanised Indian Rubber) was used in house's and in the 1970's was replaced in house wiring as this was aluminium and cotton sheathed.
That's why we had so many house files.
The Steel wired armoured section of three phase cables is also aluminium, but cores are copper.
Overhead 400 kilovolt nowadays 440 kilovolt cables can be aluminium or copper depending on volt drop or what is known as the 2.5 % rule
Nobody uses aluminium to these days for long runs as even with high voltages you have large current carrying capacity.
Sorry Quady, I know I'm being a pedantic tool but we literally only use aluminum when the voltage is high. If the current is high we might need copper or something more highly conductive, but overhead power lines, where step-up transformers mean the voltage is unrecognizably high (in order to keep current and this heat loss to a minimum low) use aluminum to keep weight down.
Natural sciences (paid for by the army π) have left me unable to let scientific inaccuracies go... Again, sorry to be a pedant! At least this is solg related, I suppose!
Did anyone say it was a good article, Quady? The last think any of us want is a reduction in copper demand, but the reality is that it's an environmentally unpopular resource to acquire from ore. It's no surprise those searching for lighter touch energy solutions are also looking to limit our need for fresh extraction. Smelting ain't pretty, but clearly we don't care for the time being.
ArAgCu there is a good reason we use copper today and not aluminium in cable's that carry mains voltage and higher.
That is the aluminium ones tend to catch fire.
Some of the current demand on EV's is phenomenal.
Not a good article.
Italian, indeed.
Our acquisition of Cornerstone was ranked as being one of the lowest prices paid per pound.
...if you take the 0.12/lb average of all deals, or half if you take the 0.06/lb average for non production assets, equal to 0.488 price
Based on M&A valuations posted in that article, Cascabel alone (including copper, gold and silver) should make SOLG share price worth around 0.975, not shabby if we can get anything remotely close to that.
Is it this one about the risk to the copper market from substitution and thrifting? Anyone invested here already knows this, and anyone who can use the internet has already read this, but the parrots like a re-post π
https://www.mining.com/over-20m-tonnes-of-copper-demand-could-be-destroyed-through-2030/