May 3, 2018 Glencore’s Congo mining conundrum The miner and commodities trader is embroiled in a legal tangle over its copper and cobalt operations in Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict and changes to regulations have deterred…
May 2, 2018 Glencore is said to take Congo rift with Gertler to London court The Swiss miner was granted a temporary injunction against the Israeli billionaire after petitioning the London court to rule against a Congolese judge’s decision last week to freeze assets at…
May 2, 2018 New CNN investigation finds children mining cobalt in Congo The CNN team witnessed children working at the Musonoie river mine – washing and carrying cobalt ore in sacks – before being chased away by officials. CNN cameras even captured…
May 1, 2018 Battery metals supply crunch to slow near-term EVs growth — Moody’s Lack of new projects, investment deficit and increasing political risk will hit supply of cobalt, lithium, copper and nickel, key metals for making the batteries that power electric cars.
April 26, 2018 Canadian Miner Agnico to divest cobalt assets, sells gold interests Agnico said it started a strategic review on selling about 2,100 hectares of the Coleman and the South Lorrain cobalt-rich properties in Canada.
April 26, 2018 Moroccan King to sign trade, mining deals with Congo Moroccan King Mohammed VI will travel to the Central African nation for an April 28 summit of leaders to discuss the Congo Basin Blue Fund.
April 25, 2018 Canada’s First Cobalt eager for more after U.S. Cobalt buy Refinery could be working in 1-to-2 years' time.
April 24, 2018 Cuba sees 2018 nickel plus cobalt output topping 50,000 tonnes The country was ranked 10th in world nickel production in 2016 and sixth in cobalt.
April 24, 2018 Congo’s state miner seeks to dissolve Glencore venture over debts Gecamines said on Tuesday that debts owed by Kamoto to Glencore and its subsidiaries at the end of 2017 topped $9 billion.
April 23, 2018 Commodities: the top asset class of 2018 so far If the commodity sector keeps the pace for the rest of 2018, this will be the best year for the asset class since 2003.
Indonesia targets illegal mining on 190,000 hectares of forest land The military-backed forestry task force said last week it had taken over 8,800 hectares of land where nickel, coal, quartz sand and limestone were being mined. January 19, 2026 | 07:28 am
