January 11, 2018 Mining profits are super-charged and BlackRock wants to get paid “A lot of investors were really badly burned, ourselves included.”
January 11, 2018 Rio Tinto pulls offer for stake in world’s largest lithium miner Decision doesn’t mean the miner has abandoned plans to capitalize on the electric-car boom, sources familiar with the matter say.
January 11, 2018 BHP is building an EV hub it doesn’t want to keep The good luck for BHP is that only about 40 to 45 percent of existing nickel mine supply is suitable for processing into a battery-grade chemical product.
January 10, 2018 Pancontinental in the quest for “blue gold” The company is looking in Canada, the world's No. 3 cobalt producer.
January 10, 2018 Electric cars market threatened by potential cobalt tax hike in Congo The nation, responsible for about two thirds of global output, plans to increase tax on cobalt to 5% from 2%.
January 10, 2018 Bacanora seeks expansion of German lithium project with newly acquired exploration licence The Falkenhain deposit, in the German state of Saxony, is located about 5 km from another Bacanora asset in Germany — the 50%-owned Zinnwald lithium project.
January 9, 2018 Congo’s Gécamines urges Gov’t to revise 16-year-old mining code The World Bank-supported mining legislation was introduced to attract investment into copper and cobalt projects from global miners including Glencore Plc, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and China Molybdenum Co. Gécamines claims country…
January 8, 2018 Canadian junior plunges ahead with three cobalt projects in B.C. Vancouver-based Cruz Cobalt is ready to kick off an airborne work program at its three B.C.-based properties amid high prices for the commodity
January 7, 2018 $900M Australian rare earths mine given state approval The mine could supply up to 10% of world demand for neodymium and praseodymium, used in the manufacture of magnets for wind turbines, and electric vehicles.
January 5, 2018 CHARTS: Big mining’s surge in value shames tech giants The mining cycle turned two years ago – gains for the sector's largest companies have far outpaced stocks like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook since.
Congo collects samples for CMOC’s first cobalt shipment, sources say The DRC is collecting samples for CMOC's first cobalt shipment under a new quota system, expected soon. December 22, 2025 | 07:20 am
