August 8, 2024 US Strategic Metals tapped for $400 million EXIM Bank loan The company plans to mine what it considers to be the largest cobalt reserve in North America.
August 7, 2024 Qatar invests $180m in US-backed fund to reduce China’s dominance in critical minerals Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has so far invested more than $450 million into projects across North and South America, Europe and Africa.
August 7, 2024 Glencore ceases to stockpile cobalt Large surpluses of cobalt have pushed prices to around $12 per lb, the lowest since 2016.
August 7, 2024 Glencore scraps plans to ditch coal on investor pressure Over 95% of Glencore shareholders were in favour of keeping the coal unit to help fund growth in metals and support returns.
August 5, 2024 Glencore to pay $152 million fine in bribery case Commodities giant was fined by Swiss authorities for not preventing a business partner from bribing a Congolese official in 2011.
August 2, 2024 A fraught election just reshaped the next steps for deep sea mining Brazilian oceanographer Leticia Carvalho has been elected the next secretary-general of the ISA, a leadership change that could slow the rush to strip-mine deep sea ecosystems.
August 2, 2024 CHART: Did the EV battery metals industry peak in 2022? This is not what a bullish stream graph looks like.
August 2, 2024 Glencore overshadowed in cobalt market as Chinese rival booms China’s CMOC Group has strengthened its status as the world’s cobalt king.
July 29, 2024 The future of deep sea mining hinges on a contentious election International Seabed Authority head incumbent Michael Lodge faces Leticia Carvalho, a Brazilian ocean scientist.
July 25, 2024 Metals One to begin drilling at Råna Ni-Cu-Co project in Norway Drilling is focused on two targets comprising shallow, highly conductive electromagnetic anomalies.
Argentina’s cradle of Malbec wine is warming up to copper mining The San Jorge copper-gold project, controlled by Zug-based Zonda Metals, would be a first for Mendoza. December 18, 2025 | 10:49 am
