March 21, 2019 Chinese electric vehicle makers are gorging on nickel New report shows in January 2019, the Chinese market saw 253% more nickel deployed in passenger EV batteries compared to a year ago.
March 8, 2019 Tianqi Lithium to name three directors to SQM board next month The world’s No.3 producer of the metal used in electric vehicle batteries said the candidates will be “fair” and “responsible toward shareholders”.
March 5, 2019 Vancouver AI firm Andritz takes top spot at Goldcorp’s #DisruptMining The winner’s prize is an “opportunity to negotiate up to a $1 million investment” in their technology, either toward a proof of concept or direct investment.
February 28, 2019 Barrick, Newmont step up game to sway top investors Barrick forecasts over $7 billion in pre-tax savings over 20 years, based on net present value — $4.7 billion of which will come from Nevada.
February 26, 2019 Goldcorp reveals names of three #DisruptMining finalists The finalists are competing for the opportunity to negotiate up to $1 million investment in the winning technology.
February 21, 2019 First AI mining company goes public Goldspot extends machine learning beyond exploration – to M&A.
February 16, 2019 IBM steps up efforts to help miners improve health and safety records The company is working with several wearable technology providers so companies can monitor biometric and environmental data to identify whether employees are experiencing dangers or risk, beyond a equipment failure.
February 5, 2019 Megafactories buildout could up nickel demand in batteries 19 fold—Benchmark Benchmark's MD Simon Moore told the Senate Committee on energy that 70 battery megafactories are in global production – up from 17 .
January 29, 2019 Rethinking mining strategies among the top-10 global trends to shape 2019 Mining companies now need to determine how to operate in a market that is characterized by rising stakeholder demands, a widening talent gap, as well as dwindling access to key…
January 4, 2019 Top 3 reasons to avoid running project cost estimates in-house There are real costs associated with conducting project cost estimates in-house.
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm
