October 11, 2017 Landmark court decision shakes up mineral royalties In a High Court decision handed down on 3 October 2017, Justice Meyer found in favour of the taxpayer, United Manganese of Kalahari Proprietary Limited.
October 11, 2017 Uranium explorer adds mineralization to ‘world-class project’ NexGen Energy Ltd. reported radioactivity results for 22 holes of the on-going summer drilling program on their Rook I property in Athabasca Basin, Sask.
October 6, 2017 Electric cars prompt consultants CRU to explore cobalt sulphate index Any cobalt sulphate prices published by CRU would be based on traded prices in China, a cobalt industry source said.
October 5, 2017 Graphite seeing some upward movement The graphite market has shown its first sign of life in a few years with some upward price pressure.
October 5, 2017 Mexico’s mining sector to reach $17.8bn by 2020 on zinc prices, strong pipeline Competitive operating costs and supportive government policies are also expected to play a key role in Mexico's mining industry strong recovery.
October 1, 2017 Chinese EV market nearing 2% penetration Plug-in-vehicle market in China surges to a record 1.8% of total passenger vehicle sales.
September 28, 2017 Chile sees no obstacle to Albemarle request to hike lithium output cap Albemarle said it could invest $1-billion in Chile over the next 5 years if request to the government to let it extract 125,000 tonnes per year is approved.
September 26, 2017 UK inventor James Dyson to launch electric car by 2020 The billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner said his company was building an electric car which will launch by 2020, the latest firm to challenge traditional carmakers in a…
September 26, 2017 Brazil’s president revokes decree allowing mining in Amazon It would have opened up for mining a vast national reserve in the country’s Amazon, larger than the size of Switzerland.
September 26, 2017 BHP says 2017 a ‘tipping point’ for electric cars Arnoud Balhuizen, head of marketing at BHP, said the impact of the looming electric vehicle boom for raw materials producers would be felt first in the metals markets and only…
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
