April 6, 2021

Greenpeace stages Pacific Ocean protest against deep-sea mining

Last week BMW, Volvo Group, Samsung SDI and Google signed on to a World Wildlife Fund call for a moratorium on the practice.

April 6, 2021

Boliden sees 300m SEK hit from covid-19, production snags in Q1

The Swedish firm had previously forecast a negative effect of 200 million crowns

April 6, 2021

Engie to build wind farm to supply Anglo American’s Quellaveco project in Peru

Construction of the 260MW Punta Lomitas wind park is expected to begin in the second half of 2021.

April 6, 2021

Panoramic Resources to restart nickel project in Australia

To support the resuming of operations, Panoramic has entered a five-year nickel and copper concentrate offtake agreement with Trafigura Group.

April 5, 2021

The US has a metals problem

Years of neglecting its critical metal supplies is catching up with the United States, as demand for the raw materials needed to build a new green economy that rejects fossil…

April 5, 2021

Arizona Metals raising C$15m to triple Kay Mine drilling

After adding a second rig to the site in February, the company is now scheduling for two more Kay Mine drills.

April 5, 2021

Copper price surges after Chile closes its borders

The world’s top copper exporter decided to close its borders for a month as a deadly covid-19 wave smashed records.

April 5, 2021

Global copper smelting slides in March on Chinese shortages

Global copper smelting slipped to the lowest levels in at least five years in March as top producer China failed to recover following the Lunar New Year holiday due to…

April 5, 2021

Raw materials from EV battery recycling have smaller carbon footprint – study

Finnish researchers used simulation-based life-cycle to account for emissions and energy and water consumption in the recycling process.

April 4, 2021

Copper may be the key to turn CO2 into fuel

Germany-based researchers optimized copper catalysts for the conversion of carbon dioxide into chemicals or fuels.