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.

January 11, 2018

The raw materials that fuel the Green Revolution

A full green shift still requires plenty of natural resources- they're just not the traditional fossil fuels we're used to.

January 11, 2018

Mining profits are super-charged and BlackRock wants to get paid

“A lot of investors were really badly burned, ourselves included.”