March 5, 2026

RANKED: Top 20 automakers by battery metals spending

Volkswagen overtakes Tesla to become the biggest spender on lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite amid recovering prices.

March 5, 2026

Deep-sea mining debate reaches critical global moment

Governments face pressure to delay seabed mining as legal risks, fragile ecosystems and global treaty commitments collide.

March 4, 2026

Pentagon sought fresh supply of 13 critical minerals day before Iran attack

The list includes arsenic, bismuth, gadolinium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, nickel, samarium, tungsten, vanadium, ​ytterbium, yttrium and zirconium.

March 3, 2026

Shorter commodity cycles reshaping trading, value: McKinsey

Consultancy says that AI, partnerships and faster capital deployment are driving a structural shift in global commodity markets.

March 2, 2026

PDAC: Ottawa spreads cash across 30 projects

Canada announced as much as $17 million each for 30 mining projects.

March 2, 2026

PDAC: Canada must build processing now, panelists say

Foreign takeovers of large-scale Canadian miners have turned Canada into an economy that’s more focused on extracting and exporting.

February 27, 2026

Canada’s critical minerals push faces capital gap: RBC

Ottawa bets billions on projects and infrastructure as global demand surges and China dominates refining capacity.

February 26, 2026

Nevada tops Fraser survey as Ontario, Saskatchewan rise

The United States, Canada, Australia and Europe all placed two jurisdictions each in the Top 10.

February 24, 2026

Op-Ed: Europe’s ‘buy European’ plan misses minerals

An industrial strategy that ignores raw materials leaves Europe exposed to global rivals and supply shocks.

February 16, 2026

CHART: EV battery metals index jumps to 27-month high

EV battery raw materials bill tops $2 billion for the first time since August 2023 and surging lithium, nickel prices going into 2026 puts slump definitively in the rearview mirror.