July 5, 2021 Glencore names Kalidas Madhavpeddi as new chairman Appointment comes one week after Gary Nagle replaced Ivan Glasenberg as CEO and marks a shift to new leadership for the company.
July 2, 2021 Nauru puts UN on two-year deadline to make deep-sea mining rules The Pacific island nation has notified a United Nations body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority two years to complete long-running talks on rules governing…
July 2, 2021 New recycling techniques set to make electric vehicles greener The new methods involve retrieving parts of the battery so they can be reused, which can drastically cut costs and carbon emissions.
July 1, 2021 Shortages flagged for critical EV materials lithium and cobalt As the world moves to meet stringent targets for cutting carbon emissions, demand for lithium, cobalt and nickel vital for electric vehicle batteries will soar.
June 30, 2021 CHART: Study predicts over 400% increase in copper, lithium, nickel battery demand BloombergNEF turns super bullish about metals demand for batteries – ups forecast 35% to 2.7 terawatt hours per year by 2030 as electric cars take off.
June 30, 2021 Glencore paid $5.8bn to governments in 2020 Payments to governments in 2020 were lower due to pandemic disruption.
June 29, 2021 CHARTS: China’s overseas copper mining scramble Chinese state and private investors have spent more than $16 billion over the last decade buying copper mines and projects including nearly 50 in Africa.
June 29, 2021 Australia, US and Canada launch interactive map for critical minerals The website contains the world’s largest dataset of minerals such cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements.
June 28, 2021 UEX extends Michael Lake nickel-cobalt zone with widest intersection to date The company has received the final drill assays from last winter’s program at West Bear nickel-copper project in Saskatchewan.
June 25, 2021 Hanrui Cobalt applies for HK listing to fund expansion Company is one of China's biggest producers of the metal and is building new facilities in the southern Chinese city of Ganzhou to produce 10,000 tonnes per year of cobalt…
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am