Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen
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Mitsubishi ups stake in Jetti Resources’ copper extraction technology

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 MINING.com Editor | June 8, 2021 | 1:21 pm Top Companies USA Copper 

Capstone Mining achieves record cash flow in Q1, becomes debt-free
Copper cathodes at Capstone’s Pinto Valley mine in Arizona. Image from Jetti Resources.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) announced that it has increased its stake in, and formed a new business alliance with Jetti Resources, a Colorado-based company that has developed a catalytic technology that enables extraction of copper from primary sulfide ores.

BHP and Freeport, together with MC, announced last week a $50 million investment in the company.

With the global decarbonizion race intensifying, demand is on the rise for copper, a metal vital for growth in electric vehicles and renewable energies. Facing aging mines with lower grades, the industry is looking at how much more copper they can produce out of existing operations – Chile’s Codelco, for example, is planning massive upgrades of its aging mines.

Jetti Resources, a start-up founded in 2014, says its technology makes it possible to extract copper from low-grade primary sulfides like chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant copper mineral ore.

Jetti’s catalytic technology enables heap and stockpile leach extraction of copper trapped in primary sulfide ores, which are usually discarded due to their low copper yields being insufficient to justify traditional processing methods.

JETTI RESOURCES SAYS ITS TECHNOLOGY MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO EXTRACT COPPER FROM LOW-GRADE PRIMARY SULFIDES LIKE CHALCOPYRITE, THE WORLD’S MOST ABUNDANT COPPER MINERAL ORE

Capstone Mining confirmed the commercial-scale effectiveness of Jetti technology through its trial application last year at the Pinto Valley copper mine in Arizona. During the first year of the miner’s partnership with Jetti, cathode production per area irrigated doubled, Capstone announced last July.

Mitsubishi has been supporting the technology’s commercialization since 2019, when it first invested in Jetti to secure a stable supply of copper and contribute to MC’s efforts to address the problem of diminishing natural resources.

By forming a new business alliance, Jetti and MC will be strengthening their framework for future collaborations and making effective use of MC’s assets to promote the widespread adoption of Jetti’s technologies, Mitsubishi said.

The partners are set to start discussions on the proactive adoption of Jetti’s catalytic technology at mines that have thus far been unable to extract copper efficiently due to their high concentration of low-grade, primary sulfide ores.

Anticipating that global demand for copper will remain robust for at least the foreseeable future, MC’s Mineral Resources Group has identified it as one of its core products.

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