January 23, 2025 IGO ceases work at impaired Kwinana lithium hydroxide plant The battery metal producer warned of an additional net loss in its first-half results earlier this week.
January 23, 2025 Chile keeps faith in lithium expansion even as glut worsens The government is confident that investors will compete for licenses to drill new deposits even amid a worsening global glut.
January 23, 2025 Stardust Power breaks ground on $1.2bn lithium refinery in Oklahoma The project will be developed in two phases, with a production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum.
January 23, 2025 Column: Only Indonesia can help nickel recover from price bust Nickel ended 2024 trading at four-year lows, a spectacular reversal of fortune for a metal that soared so high in 2022 it almost broke the London Metal Exchange.
January 23, 2025 Tianqi Lithium warns of 2024 loss, halts Australia expansion The Chinese miner warned that it expects to post a net loss of as much as 8.2 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) for 2024.
January 23, 2025 Indonesia approves 2025 nickel mining quota The quota was higher than last year's 271.89 million wet metric tons.
January 23, 2025 Chile’s mining agency expects another global lithium surplus this year Global surplus is still expected for 2024 and 2025, according to Cochilco.
January 23, 2025 World’s No. 1 cobalt miner sees 2025 output approaching record CMOC gave output guidance at 100,000 to 120,000 tons of cobalt, after producing 114,165 tons in 2024.
January 22, 2025 MP Materials produces rare earth metal in Texas MP Materials expects to produce about 1,000 tonnes of finished neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets a year.
January 22, 2025 Indonesia pressures commodity firms with earnings rule Indonesia plans to force commodity firms to keep their export earnings onshore for at least a year.
Zimbabwe to continue mineral purchases in 2026, central bank governor says The central bank has aggressively pursued a foreign currency accumulation strategy through mandatory mining royalties, outright gold purchases and leveraging on the rally in gold. December 28, 2025 | 09:29 am
