October 18, 2021

Appetite for ‘green energy metals’ drives deals

Demand for copper, nickel, lithium, and cobalt has risen sharply, driven by the global move to lower carbon emissions and electric vehicle makers chasing battery ingredients.

October 18, 2021

Pallinghurst to beef up EV battery metal business with stake in Talon Metals

Mining investor will acquire a 19.2% stake in EV battery metal miner for about $80.2 million.

October 18, 2021

Wild markets gatecrash London Metal Exchange Week party

This year’s LME Week was a subdued affair by comparison with past excess, writes Andy Home.

October 18, 2021

Noront Resources picks Wyloo bid over BHP

BHP has five days to come back with a better offer, or give up on grabbing Noront's Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper deposit in Ontario.

October 17, 2021

What the energy transition may bring for five battery metals – report

London-based ING Economics predicts what the ongoing energy transition might bring for copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and lithium.

October 15, 2021

Green Energy Metals: Eight companies with big ambitions

Companies on the global hunt for lithium, nickel, copper, cobalt, and PGMs wherever they are.

October 15, 2021

Copper price soars to new high as stockpiles hit 47-year low

Copper price up 12% this week as LME warehouses empty out and inflation pressures rise across the globe.

October 15, 2021

BHP’s London investors back critiqued climate change plan

Miner won 83% support for its climate transition strategy despite concerns that the plan did not go far enough.

October 15, 2021

Mexico eyes ‘strategic minerals,’ copper limits in mining reform

Lopez Obrador's proposed legislation will no longer award concessions to mine lithium "and other strategic minerals" needed for the country's energy transition.

October 14, 2021

Turquoise Hill stock crushed after Oyu Tolgoi funding gap swells by $1.2 billion

Rio-owned TRQ says underground expansion funding requirement increases to $3.6bn and open pit metal production delayed beyond 2024.