July 19, 2023 No more plundering: Can Africa take control in green mineral rush? Governments have increasingly restricted or banned mineral exports in a bid to boost processing and retain more of the gains.
July 19, 2023 Marine animals flee Takuyo-Daigo seamount after Japan’s deep-sea mining test Marine animals vacated the area where Japan extracted cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt.
July 19, 2023 Tata Group to build $5 billion gigafactory in the UK Tata's first gigafactory outside of India will supply locally-made batteries to the company's its Jaguar Land Rover factories.
July 18, 2023 Explorer Victor Vescovo says deep sea mining numbers don’t add up Vescovo in 2019 became the first person to venture to the deepest trenches in the world’s five oceans.
July 18, 2023 It’s carmakers against miners in battle over China-funded metals Automakers argue they need more leeway on the rules because it’s currently impossible to produce EV batteries without inputs that have at least some Chinese ownership, while US materials producers…
July 18, 2023 CMOC agrees to pay $800 million to end row with Congo’s Gecamines News comes after CMOC's resumed copper, cobalt exports
July 17, 2023 Electra makes first shipment of recycled nickel-cobalt produced in Ontario The nickel-cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate product was produced using Electra’s proprietary hydrometallurgical process.
July 16, 2023 Families in the DRC increasingly rely on children working in cobalt mines — report Children are increasingly being encouraged to work at cobalt mine sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a recent report states.
July 13, 2023 Talon Metals discovers new semi-massive nickel sulphide formation at Tamarack Hit was in part of the Tamarack intrusive complex never before explored.
July 13, 2023 US bill aims to counter China control of Congo critical minerals The DRC produces about 70% of the world’s cobalt and also has major deposits of copper, lithium, tantalum, and germanium.
Copper poised for best year since 2009 after December surge All six base metals on the LME are headed for annual gains in a year that’s seen an array of supply-side pressures. December 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
