March 4, 2021 Seafloor miner DeepGreen plans listing through SPAC merger Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp will combine with DeepGreen in a $2.9bn deal.
March 4, 2021 Savannah’s Portugal lithium project may cost less than expected Early results from metallurgical test work at Mina do Barroso show potential for lower capital and operating costs.
March 4, 2021 Five Eyes alliance urged to forge ties with Greenland to secure minerals Greenland has huge deposits of rare earths.
March 4, 2021 SQM plans to propose major lithium hydroxide expansion, CEO says Company said lithium sales volumes in Q4 jumped 50% from the previous quarter, hitting a three-month record of more than 25,000 tonnes.
March 4, 2021 US broke record on energy storage deployment in Q4-2020 Over 2,000 megawatt-hours of new energy storage systems were brought online in Q4-2020 in the United States.
March 4, 2021 Green revolution gets more expensive as copper price rallies Copper is a vital part of green infrastructure from grids to wind turbines, and a recent price surge threatens to make decarbonization more costly.
March 4, 2021 Congo’s cobalt and copper production jumped in 2020, central bank says Congo produced 85,855 tonnes of cobalt in 2020, up 10% from 2019.
March 3, 2021 Electric car battery cobalt prices are rocketing Soaring demand in China, ongoing logistics issues along the Congo-South Africa-China route lift prices over 30% in single month, says Benchmark.
March 3, 2021 Energy storage boom to propel zinc battery demand, industry association says Annual demand for zinc in batteries was only 600 tonnes in 2020 but that figure is projected to rise to 77,500 tonnes in 2030
March 3, 2021 Tsingshan signs pacts for 100,000 T nickel matte in EV push Chinese firms have been stepping up focus on EVs in the world's biggest market for such vehicles.
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
