GLG News by Mining Experts

The attempts are of little importance in terms of Japanese coal mining, but may be interesting in terms of additional energy alternatives.  In terms of coal mining, little is the importance of the Japanese attempts to explore coal from the abandoned coalfields for the activity implies...

It is impossible to believe that either Toyota or lithium battery developer A123 think its a good idea to modify an existing Prius into a plug-in hybrid by having a dealer install a system based on an A123 battery. Toyota cannot stop its independent dealers from charging gullible environmental activist...

A study published Tuesday by international environmental group WWF and the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development stated that China is using double the amount of water, land and other natural resources that its ecosystem can provide over the long term.  Read...

The British governments hopes for early success in defeating global warming by cleaning up coal fired power stations have been challenged by a leading power generator.  Read http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/7444470.stm.  The article states that the cost of cost of electricity...

This article is important because it indicates shrinking electric power market in Italy and aggravating financial standings of especially such small power companies having no interest in energy sources. This occurrence is suggestive to other utilities in the world in similar situations...

Key Points are implications from viewpoint of resources business and from technology business viewpoint.   (1) From viewpoint of resources business, the topic only emphasized the importance of the role that suppliers play, implying more profits expectable from coal investment, exploration,...

Toyota and Honda have both announced in the last month that they will use nickel metal hydride batteries in their hybrid vehicles for the near term, at least for the next five years, and perhaps well beyond that. Toyota has also announced that it will dramatically ramp up nickel metal hydride battery...

Quality, on time delivery, and price used to be the three factors to be judged, and in that order of descending importance, by OEM automotive buyers. Then the accountants took over and simply dismissed those with engineering and materials evaluation skills as commodities whose opinions and...

Toyota only builds the Prius hybrid, the world's best selling hybrid, in Japan even though nearly 80% of the Prius production is sold in the USA. Why is this so? And, why, now that Toyota is committed to nearly tripling the production of Priuses worldwide by 2011, is it that the batteries and power...

Toyota is 1. Increasing the production capacity of its existing original joint venture plant with Matsushita (Panasonic) to make nickel metal hydride, NiMH, batteries for hybrid vehicles, 2. Building an additional new nickel metal hydride battery plant with Matsushita, which, when combined with...