April 17, 2020 Congo enacts plan to blunt virus impact as cobalt exports slump Country will begin an information campaign for hundreds of thousands of hand-miners to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
April 16, 2020 CHART: China’s stranglehold on electric car battery supply chain China has not only shoved aside the US for rare earths, cobalt, graphite and lithium production – new study shows it controls 93% of world's manganese going into EVs.
April 15, 2020 Zambia plans to revoke Glencore’s Mopani licenses Mopani's chief executive Nathan Bullock detained at Lusaka airport.
April 15, 2020 First Cobalt expands Idaho property by 50% The Iron Creek project is one of the few primary cobalt deposits in America.
April 15, 2020 Bluejay Mining grows Greenland footprint The company has been granted two exploration licenses surrounding its Kangerluarsuk zinc-lead-silver project.
April 15, 2020 American Manganese, Voltabox recycle li-ion batteries Voltabox wants a recycling solution for its end-of-life battery system.
April 12, 2020 Glencore copper mine in Congo sends 350 contractors home Glencore's Katanga Mining sent 350 workers to be repatriated after the miner delayed the commissioning of an acid plant.
April 7, 2020 Canada Nickel discovers palladium-platinum zone at Crawford Five holes intersected this zone, returning intercepts that include 7.5 metres of 1.7 g/t palladium and platinum.
April 7, 2020 Glencore to shut Zambia copper mines The company is said to have declared force majeure at its Mopani Copper Mines.
April 6, 2020 Covid-19 cuts $280bn swathe through top 50 mining companies MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a beleaguered industry at the end of the first quarter 2020.
Column: EV revolution rolls on but battery metals lose their charge It should only be a matter of time before demand momentum absorbs the current supply glut, writes Reuters columnist Andy Home. December 20, 2025 | 06:23 am
