January 16, 2020 Battery nickel price regains premium over metal Nickel sulphate is back to trading at a premium to the metal in China and should stay there on expected BHP Nickel West delays, says new report.
January 16, 2020 Bolivia’s new lithium tsar says country should go it alone Bolivia has been producing around 400 metric tones of lithium per year in a test site.
January 16, 2020 Noram encouraged by drill results at Nevada lithium project The Canadian miner said its drill program yielded higher results than the current inferred resource.
January 15, 2020 Cobalt price: After dismal 2019, could Tesla-Glencore deal spark turnaround? Even before the rumoured deal, more than 80% of the world's largest cobalt miner's output was tied up for years to come, a new report shows.
January 15, 2020 Congo opens Chinese-owned Deziwa copper and cobalt mine The deposit, around 35 kilometres east of Kolwezi, is estimated to hold 4.6 million tonnes of copper and 420,000 tonnes of cobalt.
January 15, 2020 Chile regulator backs SQM lithium production expansion Chile’s Environmental Superintendent (SMA) said the ruling invalidating the miner's plan was "unfounded."
January 14, 2020 China rare earth exports rebound in December, but annual shipments lowest since 2015 Full-year rare earth shipments came in at 46,330 tonnes in 2019.
January 14, 2020 Court grants Millennial Lithium mining licenses in Argentina The land tenements used to belong to state-owned company Remsa.
January 14, 2020 Savannah Resources completes licensing for Mozambique JV with Rio Tinto The miner said full tenement permitting of Mutamba is now completed and expects to begin production before year-end.
January 12, 2020 Roskill predicts tight supply of NdFeB magnet rare earths Suppliers are expected to have a hard time keeping up with the demand, as EV production and sales ramp up.
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
