Magnetism

Levita® Magnetics Wins FDA Clearance for Pioneering MARS™ System

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Levita Magnetics, whose mission is to help more patients get access to better surgery, announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its MARS™ platform.

Key Points: 
  • The Levita MARS system is a first-of-its-kind minimally invasive surgical platform aimed at the high-volume abdominal surgery market.
  • MARS is poised to revolutionize surgical options for a broad range of patients," said Dr. Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, surgeon, founder, and CEO of Levita Magnetics.
  • "With this FDA clearance, we eagerly anticipate making a substantial impact across the value chain."
  • "Levita's system can aid in surgeon proficiency and efficiency, and can reduce the need for assistive personnel, signaling a major achievement not only for Levita but for surgical care."

Standard Uranium Provides Corporate Update; Announces Expansion of Existing Land Holdings and Staking of Corvo Project in Eastern Athabasca Basin

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Friday, August 18, 2023

Elevated radioactivity measured in boulders, outcrop, and drilled rock coupled with the geochemical anomalies present on the Corvo project indicate high potential for uranium mineralization.

Key Points: 
  • Elevated radioactivity measured in boulders, outcrop, and drilled rock coupled with the geochemical anomalies present on the Corvo project indicate high potential for uranium mineralization.
  • The staking of the Corvo Project is part of the Company’s strategy to increase its landholdings in the infrastructure-rich eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Standard Uranium holds a 100%-interest in the 19,604-hectare Sun Dog project along the northwestern edge of the Athabasca Basin (Figure 5).
  • Standard Uranium holds a 100%-interest in the Ascent project which straddles the eastern boundary of the Athabasca Basin.

Digital Locations CEO Rich Berliner Discussed the Use of Machine Learning with the Company’s Tech Team Leader

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

SANTA BARBARA, CA, Aug. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Locations, Inc. (OTCMKTS:DLOC), the developer of a disruptive technology that will deliver high-speed Internet from satellites directly to smartphones all over the world, today announced that in a recent podcast, its CEO, Rich Berliner, spoke with Dr. Elias Alwan, at Florida International University (FIU) about using machine learning to overcome certain technical challenges.

Key Points: 
  • During the conversation, Dr. Alwan described how the FIU tech team is working to overcome the challenges of delivering high speed data from satellites directly to mobile phones.
  • Dr. Alwan continued, “How we play with all the variables in order to allow and close that link is our greatest concern.
  • Our project is currently focused what can we change on the cellphone side to make that link happen.
  • Dr. Alwan obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2014, and his M.E.

IDTechEx Discusses 4 Ways to Eliminate Rare Earths in EV Motors and One You Haven't Heard

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Monday, August 14, 2023

82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.

Key Points: 
  • 82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.
  • In a rare earth permanent magnet (PM) motor, the magnets are located on the rotor.
  • These motors have historically also had poorer power and torque density, but modern versions are comparable with PM motors.
  • There is an increasing focus, especially outside of China, on reducing the rare earth content of electric motors.

IDTechEx Discusses 4 Ways to Eliminate Rare Earths in EV Motors and One You Haven't Heard

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Monday, August 14, 2023

82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.

Key Points: 
  • 82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.
  • In a rare earth permanent magnet (PM) motor, the magnets are located on the rotor.
  • These motors have historically also had poorer power and torque density, but modern versions are comparable with PM motors.
  • There is an increasing focus, especially outside of China, on reducing the rare earth content of electric motors.

IDTechEx Discusses 4 Ways to Eliminate Rare Earths in EV Motors and One You Haven't Heard

Retrieved on: 
Monday, August 14, 2023

82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.

Key Points: 
  • 82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.
  • In a rare earth permanent magnet (PM) motor, the magnets are located on the rotor.
  • These motors have historically also had poorer power and torque density, but modern versions are comparable with PM motors.
  • Source: IDTechEx
    There is an increasing focus, especially outside of China, on reducing the rare earth content of electric motors.

IDTechEx Discusses 4 Ways to Eliminate Rare Earths in EV Motors and One You Haven't Heard

Retrieved on: 
Monday, August 14, 2023

82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.

Key Points: 
  • 82% of the electric car market in 2022 was using electric motors based on rare earth permanent magnets.
  • In a rare earth permanent magnet (PM) motor, the magnets are located on the rotor.
  • These motors have historically also had poorer power and torque density, but modern versions are comparable with PM motors.
  • Source: IDTechEx
    There is an increasing focus, especially outside of China, on reducing the rare earth content of electric motors.

Mink Ventures Commences Option for Warren Copper Nickel Project, Timmins, Ontario

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

TORONTO, ON, July 6, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - Mink Ventures Corporation (TSXV: MINK) ("MINK" or the "Company") announces that it has issued 250,000 common shares of the Company (the "Common Shares") and 250,000 warrants to purchase Mink common shares (the "Warrants") to commence its previously announced option of the Warren Copper-Nickel Project (the "Warren Project").

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, ON, July 6, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - Mink Ventures Corporation (TSXV: MINK) ("MINK" or the "Company") announces that it has issued 250,000 common shares of the Company (the "Common Shares") and 250,000 warrants to purchase Mink common shares (the "Warrants") to commence its previously announced option of the Warren Copper-Nickel Project (the "Warren Project").
  • To commence the option, MINK issued to US Copper Corp. 250,000 MINK common shares and 250,000 MINK three-year common share purchase warrants exercisable at a price of $0.25.
  • To maintain and ultimately exercise the option MINK must incur $300,000 in exploration expenditures and issue an additional 750,000 MINK common shares within 21 months.
  • - The Warren Project complements Mink's key Montcalm project due to the distinctly similar, prospective geological environments as well as the presence of significant Cu Ni zones at Warren.

Q2 Metals Announces Sampling Results from Its Abridged Work Program and Provides an Operational Update

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

As a result, the mapping and sampling portion of the field work lasted only two days.

Key Points: 
  • As a result, the mapping and sampling portion of the field work lasted only two days.
  • Despite the pause to the field work, the Company is encouraged by the results of the work completed and plans to execute an ambitious work program of expedited mapping, sampling and drill-testing as soon as conditions allow.
  • This successfully verified the 2021 and 2022 work by the property vendors of 18 grab samples averaging 2.65% Li2O.
  • Only a small fraction of the Mia Trend has been looked at," said Neil McCallum, VP Exploration of Q2 Metals.

New evidence suggests the world's largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is the world’s largest known impact structure, buried deep in the earth in southern New South Wales.

Key Points: 
  • In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is the world’s largest known impact structure, buried deep in the earth in southern New South Wales.
  • This exceeds the size of the near-300km-wide Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, which to date has been considered the world’s largest.

Hidden traces of Earth’s early history

    • The first is erosion: the process by which gravity, wind and water slowly wear away land materials through time.
    • This is similar to how a drop of water splashes upward from a transient crater when you drop a pebble in a pool.
    • These include pioneering discoveries of impact “ejecta”, which are the materials thrown out of a crater during an impact.
    • Researchers think the oldest layers of these ejecta, found in sediments in early terrains around the world, might signify the tail end of the Late Heavy Bombardment of Earth.

Uncovering the Deniliquin structure

    • Such domes, which can slowly erode and/or become buried through time, may be all that’s preserved from the original impact structure.
    • The Deniliquin structure has all the features that would be expected from a large-scale impact structure.
    • Magnetic measurements also show evidence of “radial faults”: fractures that radiate from the centre of a large impact structure.
    • Radial faults, and igneous sheets of rocks that form within them, are typical of large impact structures and can be found in the Vredefort structure and the Sudbury impact structure in Canada.

When did the Deniliquin impact happen?

    • The impact that caused it may have occurred during what’s known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction event.
    • It was more than double the scale of the Chicxulub impact that killed off the dinosaurs.
    • It’s hoped further studies of the Deniliquin impact structure will shed new light on the nature of early Paleozoic Earth.