Wang tells PV Tech Premium that copper offers a ‘a compelling combination’ of traits to replace silver. Image: AIKO. This Premium article, which was one of the most read Premium articles in 2025, has ...

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

The solar industry has dragged its heels on the issue of silver-dependence for cell metallization, but China’s Jiangsu Xianghuan Technology (JXTC) is moving into commercial production with a copper ...

Additional critical mineral process improvements for the Alberta Hydrometallurgical Facility The NICO Project consists of a planned mine and concentrator in the Northwest Territories (“NWT”) and a ...

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Rio Tinto is harnessing data and analytics services from AWS to optimise a process it’s championing to extract copper from ore. The miner said that AWS will also be the first customer of the copper ...