January 15, 2018 Canada’s RNC Minerals in talks to fund battery material mine RNC Minerals in talks with commodity traders, mine operators and financiers to secure $1bn to build world's biggest nickel and cobalt project next year.
January 14, 2018 New indicated resource points to expansion at New Century Zinc Mine The re-start of a mothballed zinc mine in Australia is turning out to have a strong upside for both the mining company and its investors.
January 14, 2018 Mike Beck: Battery metals part 4 – Unprecedented demand picture forming in copper The average E.V. requires 80kg more copper than a regular vehicle. There is also significant copper needed to build out E.V. infrastructure in the power grid as well as battery…
January 14, 2018 2 dead, 17 miners missing following Peru earthquake An earthquake in Peru on Sunday has claimed two lives and caused an illegal mine to collapse.
January 12, 2018 Zinc price hits fresh decade high “From the macro point of view, this is not an environment where you’d want to be shorting metals.”
January 12, 2018 How China is locking up critical resources in the US’s own backyard China’s global resource grab, and the ramifications for the rest of the world, are on my radar screen. Are they on yours? If not, maybe they should be.
January 12, 2018 Planetary Resources a step closer to mining asteroids with spacecraft launch Data obtained from the Arkyd-6 will be use in the development of the Arkyd-301, Planetary Resources next spacecraft platform and the beginning of its space resource exploration program.
January 12, 2018 Indonesia sets framework for Freeport to yield control of Grasberg mine Indonesia state-owned holding Asahan Aluminum, or Inalum, would grab a 41.64% stake in the local unit of Freeport, which increases its current ownership in it to 51%.
January 11, 2018 Yamana Gold provides preliminary 2017 operational results and an update on construction activities at Cerro Moro There was strong production momentum, which continued into the fourth quarter and for the full year 2017
January 11, 2018 The raw materials that fuel the Green Revolution A full green shift still requires plenty of natural resources- they're just not the traditional fossil fuels we're used to.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am