March 11, 2022

Nickel chaos resounds from stainless steel to electric vehicles

Chinese producers of nickel sulfate used in EV batteries stopped offering product due to the lack of price visibility.

March 11, 2022

LME defends nickel suspension after ‘disorderly’ trade

The LME said the market had become disorderly, with prices not reflecting the physical market.

March 11, 2022

Wheaton Precious shares drop on earnings miss

Wheaton Precious expands reserve base as it aims toward 900,000-plus per year GEO production.

March 11, 2022

GRAPH: Copper price has far to fall as Chinese growth tumbles

Copper prices near records can't stay aloft as growth in China slumps to just 2.5% in 2022, argues new report.

March 11, 2022

Gold likes recessions – could high interest rates lead to one?

The possibility that the Fed’s tightening cycle will lead to a recession is good news for the yellow metal.

March 11, 2022

MAG Silver acquires Gatling Exploration in all-share deal

Shares in Gatling shot up 37% following news of its acquisition by MAG.

March 11, 2022

Gold price retreats as Putin sees “positive shifts” in Ukraine talks

Also limiting gold was the anticipation of a rate hike by the US Federal Reserve next week.

March 11, 2022

Uranium price surges to highest since Fukushima on Russian war

Russia accounted for 16.5% of the uranium imported into the US in 2020.

March 11, 2022

Mining, inflation and migration: Chile’s Boric faces full in-tray

Gabriel Boric, a 36-year-old former student protest leader and lawmaker, has pledged to shake Chile's market-led economic model

March 11, 2022

Billionaire Friedland banks on Liberia’s railway to tap Guinean iron

He wants to begin development of Nimba, near Liberia’s border and estimated to hold 1 billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore, next year.