January 9, 2024

Norway approves deep sea mining in Arctic Ocean

The bill, voted 80-20 by lawmakers on Tuesday, allows commercial mineral exploration, but mining licences won't be issued just yet.

January 9, 2024

Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals

Junior producers have been particularly hard hit.

January 5, 2024

Blade runners: how LFP batteries brought EV metal markets back to earth

In a few short years, LFP batteries crushed nickel and cobalt mining markets and new technology could do the same to lithium.

January 4, 2024

CMOC takes Glencore’s cobalt crown as output jumps 170%

Hong Kong-listed CMOC produced 55,526 tons of cobalt in 2023, it said in a filing.

January 4, 2024

Pentagon to deliver report on domestic seafloor mining by March

Last month, members of Congress wrote urging the Department of Defense to prioritize planning for seabed mining as a "new vector of competition."

January 2, 2024

Agnico Eagle invests $17 million for 12% of Canada Nickel

Canada Nickel’s flagship project is the Crawford nickel sulphide deposit in Ontario.

December 27, 2023

The biggest global mining news of 2023

A tumultuous year for the global mining industry: collapse of lithium prices, furious M&A activity, gold’s new record and state intervention in mining on a scale not seen in decades.

December 19, 2023

Australia wants to compete with China on critical minerals, Minister King says

Since coming to power in May 2022, Australia’s center-left Labor government has ramped up investment in minerals.

December 19, 2023

Top 10 sustainability predictions for commodities in 2024

CRU says markets, policy, new technologies, sustainability and the energy transition will become ever more interlinked and complex.  

December 18, 2023

US Strategic Metals secures additional $230m funding for Missouri-based cobalt-nickel mine

USSM is developing its cobalt-nickel mine and battery metals recycling facility in Missouri.