October 15, 2024

Critical Metals licence for Greenland rare earths deposit extended

Critical's majority-owned Tanbreez project in Greenland, is considered the world’s largest rare earth deposit.

October 12, 2024

Rio Takes step toward M&A redemption with $6.7 billion lithium bet

Modest by comparison with past splurges, the all-cash deal is a significant and long-awaited expansion of Rio’s bet on lithium.

October 11, 2024

Rio Tinto’s real prize: Arcadium’s lithium extraction technology

Arcadium, through a predecessor company, was the first to develop an early version of a DLE technology in the 1990s.

October 11, 2024

Copper prices to hit record high in Q4 2024 on Fed cuts and China stimulus – Fastmarkets

Analysts expect prices around $10,265 per tonne in the last quarter of the year.

October 11, 2024

Savannah CEO sees lithium price rebound by start of Portugal project

Savannah expects to bring the Barroso project onstream as early as possible in 2027.

October 11, 2024

Patriot Lithium expands into copper with Zambia project

Patriot believes the Katwaro project will complement its lithium assets and provide jurisdictional diversity.

October 10, 2024

Northvolt says it will be able to pay its upcoming taxes

Cash-strapped Northvolt announced in September that it would slim down and cut jobs.

October 10, 2024

Teck CEO says Canada must spend more to erode China’s critical minerals dominance

Price noted that Canada has committed $4 billion over eight years to support critical mineral development, compared to $20 billion that China invested in 2023.

October 10, 2024

Mining stocks may drop 20% if US tariffs imposed – JPMorgan

The bank cited tariffs as a key factor behind the sector's more than 10% drop in 2017-2018 during the Trump administration.

October 10, 2024

Zimbabwe plans incentives to encourage mineral processing

Zimbabwe has banned the export of unprocessed raw lithium and “base minerals” to boost domestic processing.