January 22, 2018 Rising mineral prices trigger artisanal and small-scale mining ‘explosion’ — report An estimated 40.5 million people were directly engaged in ASM last year, up from 30 million in 2014, 13 million in 1999 and only 6 million in 1993.
January 22, 2018 Randgold’s Kibali mine in DRC to achieve full production this year Mine is on track to produce its target of 700,000 ounces of gold in 2018.
January 17, 2018 Chile’s Corfo, SQM strike deal in lithium dispute The deal frees the miner to apply for increase in production quota amid demand boom and surging prices for lithium, which is used in EV batteries.
January 17, 2018 Tracking Europe’s waste: ‘There’s gold in them landfills’ Some of Europe's richest deposits of valuable materials are in the trash, ranging from gold in smartphones to cobalt in electric car batteries.
January 16, 2018 Canadian companies want to extract nickel, vanadium, cobalt from petcoke They're running a study led by Paul Watkinson, who has investigated the conversion of carbonaceous solids into gaseous and liquid fuels.
January 15, 2018 Following detention, journalist publishes controversial story about Venezuela’s Mining Arc Rampant violence and corruption are the norm in the mines of the southern Guayana region.
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 15, 2018 Cruz commences operations on BC cobalt prospect “We are very pleased to start up operations in BC... [w]e plan to be operational on multiple projects throughout 2018," the president of Cruz stated.
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 Cobalt and 11% yields lure risk-takers to this Canadian miner Strengthening commodity prices have spurred investors to push Sherritt’s bonds up, but skepticism is still reflected in the yield of nearly 11 percent.
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
