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https://www. mining-technology. com/features/mine-magazine-issue-76/ Fairly large article on South Africa’s new mining charter if anyone is interested.

https://lemonwire. com/2018/12/20/great-neck-sd4bc-great-neck-4-in-1-screwdriver-9-5-length-orange-plastic-chrome-plated-chromium-vanadium-steel-6-08-oz-heavy-duty-shock-resistant-handle-ergonomic-grip-1-each-f/ New Xmas present anyone ?

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more attractive to invest in the sector, and perhaps lead to an increased interest in the business of Junior Mining. Even the revised charter contains elements that will have short-term consequences for investors. Minimum black ownership stays at 26% for the duration of existing mine rights, though new mining right holders will need 30%. Workers and community groups, must still be granted “carried interests” in mines of 5% each. These are significant considerations for investors eyeing the South African sector. However, the importance of sharing South Africa’s wealth amongst all citizens is widely acknowledged. We are in the process of agreeing on a policy that does this while ensuring the viability and sustainability of the sector. Once this agreement has been reached, certainty will begin returning to the sector. Aside from the charter’s rules, it is certainty itself that makes the sector attractive to mining investors. Mining companies, workers, the community and shareholders must reach finality, nail down a charter that everybody can live with and move forward. Mining still has much to contribute to our country. It must be allowed to do that.

Bert Lopes National Head of Advisory and Managing Partner BDO South Africa This speaks to the historical contribution that the sector made, from the days when it led to the founding of Johannesburg on the strength of a booming gold sector, through the decades when mining underpinned much of our country’s economy. The number of individuals employed reached a high of 760 000 people in 1987. Today the numbers are around 490 000, and the sector brought in only 8% of GDP in 2016. This opens up great opportunities in the Junior Mining sector, which has historically been headed up by large houses; which have now dwindled over the years. The sector remains a significant contributor to the South African economy. It is our sixth biggest sector and contributes R8 for every R100 produced by the national economy. The sector employs one in every 40 working individuals (or 2,5% of the entire workforce). Making a conservative assumption that each miner supports a family of four (the real figure may be significantly greater), around two million people have their fortunes tied to the success of the sector. The conventional wisdom is that miners are poorly paid. Evidence, however, tells a different story. Mining wage levels are well above those of most other sectors, and miners are in fact among the best paid of South Africa’s industrial workers. A 2016 Statistics South Africa study estimated average wage levels in the mining sector around R21 000 a month, making miners the best paid out of all industries, besides the generously remunerated “electricity and water” sector. What makes mining investment so attractive is that much of the investment made by mining companies is in infrastructure that must be developed over long periods. Mining investors cannot easily take the financial commitment they make to a country and move it to another location. As with Junior Mining, the exploration for new minerals and metals is a risky endeavor that requires committed shareholders and investors. It is precisely for this reason that long-term policy certainty is essential to attract such investment. South Africa’s current-account deficit may have the effect of contributing to currency weakness and increasing levels of inflation. The contribution to tax revenues from mining can therefore not be overlooked. Mining investors paid 7,8% of all corporate tax assessed for 2017. This contribution goes to support the education, income, health care and social development needs of South Africans across all communities. The discussions around the Mining Charter appear to be reaching finality, which is to be applauded. The latest version of the charter has been issued, and the mineral producers are studying it. It appears to be a rational compromise between what producers have lobbied for and the roundly rejected version of last year. The question then becomes whether the latest version of the charter will make it easier, and more attractive

https. ://apnews. com/326a088b8cce41af81381100b6df1635 Will vanadium be added to the list .....?

A small southeast Iowa college now boasts the largest solar array in Iowa, which is also billed as being the most technologically advanced solar power plant in the world. John Hagelin, president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, says the five-acre, 1.1 megawatt array is run by an “artificial intelligence learning computer” and it’s like none other — anywhere. “Every single solar panel tilts independently of each other and it’s constantly adjusting to take into account clouds, sunlight reflected from the snow,” Hagelin says, “and if the panels get snow on them, the panels will dump the snow on the ground.” Should the area flood, he says the panels will automatically rise to stay high and dry. The solar array, called the MEG’Array, is being switched on in a ceremony this afternoon and will provide about one-third of the university’s energy. Any power that’s not used can be stored in a bank of vanadium batteries, which Hagelin says can run for decades with no degradation. Still, he says the A-I supercomputer is the real showstopper. “It’s a continuously learning device,” Hagelin says. “The software that runs this is being developed by the faculty at Maharishi University and other participating research organizations. Those algorithms are going to help other arrays all over the world to improve their performance.” The array includes 3,150 panels in 35 rows, each with its own motor controlled by “smart” software. It will “remember” the best angles for maximum energy production throughout the seasons. Enabling the panels to tilt and track the sun as it moves across the sky should gather about 25% more light than a fixed array. Hagelin says this system going online moves the school a giant step closer to its goal of being a carbon-neutral campus. “It’s about a $2.5-million investment at this point,” Hagelin says. “We’ve had a lot of help from our trustees and donors of the university. The payoff on that investment with the appropriate tax incentives and so forth will probably allow us to pay off the device in about six years.” If all goes well, the university hopes to continue building onto the array and double its size within a few years.

https:// www .pv-magazine. com /2018/12/14/creo-2018-time-for-a-new-era-in-the-chinese-energy-transition/ Apologies for the spaces

The 2nd part new, more balanced partnership where Europe can help Africa develop a sustainable raw materials sector, boosting its overall economic and social development. Moreover, just as the EU remains open for climate-friendly investment and trade, we should demand reciprocal, fair and transparently governed access to partner countries' markets, infrastructure and raw materials. Big on the circular economy Secondly, we need a profound shift towards recovery, re-use and recycling of raw materials in all sectors where new dependencies are emerging. This is particularly the case for dependencies on a handful of countries outside Europe – often countries which struggle with stability or environmental and social standards. This reduction of materials and more efficient production can translate into a true hat-trick: improved competitiveness, huge business and jobs opportunities, less pollution. According to recent studies, a truly circular economy could reduce greenhouse emissions by up to 60 percent. Moreover, we have an untapped 'urban mine' of secondary raw materials in products sitting around our homes. Industry's message is loud and clear: if we were to collect all smartphones in our drawers and recycle them, we could have enough cobalt to manufacture batteries for four million electric cars. Thirdly, we need to have a better grasp of Europe's domestic raw materials potential and match it with our regulatory framework, including fast-track permitting. A 'holy grail' of Europe's climate neutral future We are largely self-sufficient when it comes to wood and industrial minerals. However, hardly any metal mines have opened in the last decade, despite metals' abundance and their role in technologies reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This goes hand in hand with people's awareness of the variety, amounts as well as origins of raw materials needed for the equipment such as mobile phones, electronics, cars, textiles, plastics or medicines. Europe has world-leading technologies as well as high environmental and social standards and we are making sure that mining is no longer the dirty, polluting industry of the past. Our strategy is not to displace environmental costs to other parts of the world. Our strategy is to see sustainable mining with high-quality jobs created in Europe as well as transparent information about the environmental footprint and recyclability. We do count on people's demanding stance: looking not only at the price but also at what goes into a product they buy. I am convinced that raw materials are the 'holy grail' of our 21st century industrial policy and ultimately, our climate neutral future. Therefore, we all have to move into a higher gear – industry, innovators, institutions, member states, citizens. The stakes are high, as this is a clear pre-condition for Europe to succeed.

Brussels, today. Raw materials are indispensable for carbon-neutral solutions in all sectors of the economy. This is among key messages presented in the European Commission's strategy towards a climate neutral Europe by 2050. Even if they go unnoticed, practically everything we use contains raw materials like steel, aluminium or copper. Less-known metals, rare earths are essential to green technologies such as wind turbines. Lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite are necessary for electric cars. It is therefore clear that with Europe fully embarking on the low carbon transition, new types of assets are becoming highly strategic. Today, the world uses 90bn tonnes of such raw materials annually. The OECD forecasts that this will almost double to 167bn tonnes by 2060. Without changing our consumption patterns – and moving from a "use and discard" approach towards circularity – this increased demand will place huge pressure on the planet's resources. Fierce global competition with unwanted monopolies would accelerate. For instance, China already controls much of the output from Congo's cobalt mines. Both, economically and geo-strategically Europe must make sure that its current dependence on fossil fuels is not replaced by another one: on primary raw materials coming from outside our continent. In other words, we must change the game so that raw materials do not become 'new oil'. And it requires bold collective action. We do not start from zero Europe already has an active raw materials strategy. Its original objectives remain valid: securing access to raw materials outside Europe, developing access to Europe's own resources, improving reuse and recycling of raw materials. We have already chalked up some successes: getting other countries to remove unfair trade restrictions on raw materials, identifying raw materials critical for Europe and funding research and innovation accordingly. We are also boosting exploration, second use and refining capacity when it comes to raw materials strategic for batteries. That is why this Friday (14 December) – under the European Battery Alliance – I am meeting CEOs of main raw materials organisations as well as the European Investment Bank to step up our game. Catching up with China More and more of the world's raw materials are now heading in China's direction and we also see its strategic drive to have prime access to resources in Africa. Thanks to the EU Battery Alliance launched just a year ago, Beijing's five-year lead has been shortened by two years. But much remains to be done. Firstly, we need to diversify the raw materials' sources, for instance, by looking at Latin America, Canada and Europe's own neighbourhood. As flagged in our 2050 strategy on climate neutrality, EU trade policy as well as our energy and climate diplomacy has a vital role to play. I see enormous potential in a recently announced Africa-Europe Alliance – a new, more balanced

TNG has appointed a German company to arrange a $US600 million ($850 million) debt raising for its Mount Peake project in the Northern Territory. KfW IPEX-Bank will act as TNG’s senior debt advisor for the development of the vanadium-titanium-iron site and expects to start a mandate for the funds on January 15. The financier was secured as a project partner following extensive meetings in Europe and Singapore over the past year, according to TNG managing director Paul Burton. “We now look forward to working closely with KfW IPEX-Bank to progress the full financing package for the Mount Peake project expeditiously, with a view to achieving financial close as soon as possible and getting on with the job of constructing this major new Australian resource project,” said Burton. The final capital requirements for Mount Peake will be determined in accordance with an ongoing front-end engineering and design (FEED) study, that TNG has recently undertaken with plant supplier and development partner SMS Group. Mount Peake, which is about 230 kilometres from Alice Springs, has advanced towards development steadily over the past year. TNG received federal environmental approval in May and a native title agreement in October, followed by a mineral lease procurement from the Northern Territory Government in November. The company updated its initial 2015 feasibility study results in November 2017, revealing a pre-production capital expenditure of $853 million (a $117 million reduction). It also outlined an unchanged measured and indicated mineral resource of 140 million tonnes grading an average of 0.28 per cent vanadium, 5.4 per cent titanium and 23 per cent iron.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Investing News Network (INN) announces the launch of its battery metals channel. Responding to the growth and evolution of the battery metals market, this channel will host news, educational content and expert opinions on the lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium and manganese market segments. “INN has been a trusted source of information on the lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium and manganese markets for nearly a decade, and is excited to bring these sectors together under the battery metals umbrella,” said Nick Smith, CEO and publisher at INN. “Through connections with experts, our leading team of experienced writers creates original, insightful content on battery metals. INN educates investors in the industry by providing information they may never have access to on their own,” Smith added. The battery metals channel will provide investors with access to: timely and educational articles regarding the battery metals market quarterly reviews of battery metals industry segments market forecasts from executives of leading battery metals companies in-depth interviews with industry experts “Interest in battery metals has risen significantly in the last few years, and INN recognizes the difficulty of finding trusted voices in the space,” said Priscila Barrera, managing editor, resources, at INN. “As the battery metals sector continues to develop, INN is committed to providing investors with accurate, contextual commentary.”

Has tonight’s meeting made You feel any differently about where you see our share price being in the next 3,6 and 12 months from now ? Getting the impression it could be better than we initially thought.

Guys just sit back and relax, long term we are all looking good.

Energy storage market in China to reach $6 billion by 2024 December 4, 2018 The China Energy Storage Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $700 million to over $6 billion by 2024; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights. China's energy storage market size is set to witness robust growth on account of a rapidly growing ancillary service industry coupled with ongoing investments towards smart-grid infrastructure development. Furthermore, rising deployment of energy storage devices aimed at enhancing the grid stability as a countermeasure to the effects of extensive penetration of intermittent power from renewables will augment the industry size. Declining technology costs in conjunction with the development of new technologies and the advancement of existing systems will positively influence China's energy storage market size. Lithium-ion batteries have witnessed a drop of over 50% in per unit cost in the last few years and will continue to follow the trend. A reformative business scenario along with improving economies of scale across the battery manufacturing industry will further stimulate the industry size. Shifting focus towards limiting carbon emissions to curb the consequence of global warming, coupled with rising implementation of supportive legislative endeavors, will boost China's energy storage market growth. Nonetheless, ongoing reduction in government subsidies on renewables may impact the industry, but the subsidy benefits losses may be compensated by reducing technology prices. China's flow vanadium energy storage market is projected to exceed $3 billion by 2024. Abilities to offer virtually unlimited storage capacity, long scale duration, rapid response time, and negligible self-discharge are some of the key features which make the technology suitable for large-scale renewable integration applications over its available alternatives. Furthermore, vast reserves of vanadium in the country may imply lower prices, minimal currency risks and ease of availability for the manufacturers, which will propel the industry growth. China's lithium-ion energy storage market is set to witness vigorous growth on account of continued reduction in technology costs driven by economies of scale across battery manufacturing. High energy density, low maintenance, and high coulombic efficiency are the prominent features that will strengthen the product penetration. China's ancillary services energy storage market size is projected to witness exponential growth owing to rising need for grid resilience and stability, primarily driven by continued substitution of thermal power with renewable power sources. Additionally, legislative reforms favouring the development of ancillary services industry across the country, particularly in the “Three North Region” will further enhance the industry landscape.

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