The Queensland government is making $8 million available to prepare the Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) project for investment readiness. Queensland Treasury will work to provide the grant to company Queensland Pacific Metals in conjunction with the federal government’s recently announced commitment of $8 million. The TECH Project aims to deliver a modern and sustainable…
The federal government has announced a total of $13 million in grants to Queensland Pacific Metals and Renascor Resources through the International Partnerships in Critical Minerals program. Each grant supports up to half of project costs, with $5 million to Renascor Resources for its pilot purified spherical graphite (PSG) project and $8 million to Queensland…
South Australian households to take to smart energy appliances Five hundred South Australian households are set to go energy-smart in a new project announced by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and electricity distributor SA Power Networks. ARENA is providing $6.2 million to SA Power Networks’ $13.8 million ‘Energy Masters’ project. The project will see…
Battery minerals company Lava Blue is to expand its Predictive Research into Speciality Materials (PRiSM) centre which it is developing along with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The centre is developing a process for production of high purity alumina (HPA) from sapphire bearing kaolin clay deposits in North West Queensland. HPA is the essential…
Titomic sees success in mining services and US markets Metal additive manufacturing machine company Titomic has announced the sale of two D523 low-pressure cold spray additive manufacturing systems, worth $198,829. One sale, in Kalgoorlie Western Australia, marks the company’s entry into the region’s mining services sector, considered a promising growth area for the company. The…
General Motors is among critical mineral hungry investors who have backed a $16 million capital raise by battery materials maker Queensland Pacific Metals. The automotive company is staking its claim to a share of production of nickel sulfate and cobalt sulfate from QPM’s 100 per cent-owned Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH, pictured) Project, about 45…
Battery materials maker Queensland Pacific Metals has reported success in pilot production of nickel sulfate at the facilities of SGS Canada, producing over 10 kilograms of nickel sulfate meeting specifications required by the binding offtake agreements of its partners, Posco, General Motors, and LG Energy Solutions. QPM has been undertaking pilot-scale testwork with SGS since…
