April 17, 2020 Coronavirus distress is M&A opportunity for Rio, rivals After years of buying at the peak of the economic cycle and selling in the trough, the world’s big diggers could do the reverse.
April 16, 2020 CHART: China’s stranglehold on electric car battery supply chain China has not only shoved aside the US for rare earths, cobalt, graphite and lithium production – new study shows it controls 93% of world's manganese going into EVs.
April 16, 2020 Top managers at mining group Eramet agree to pay cuts Chairman and CEO Christel Bories will forego 25% of her pay and contribute money to the company's solidarity plan.
April 16, 2020 Argentina’s fledgling lithium sector clipped by coronavirus The pandemic has already stymied a US push to develop lithium, while miners have warned the virus could hit to sales and prices further this year.
April 15, 2020 American Manganese, Voltabox recycle li-ion batteries Voltabox wants a recycling solution for its end-of-life battery system.
April 15, 2020 China’s top lithium miner eyes stake sale Tianqi flagged losses for Q1 of 450-510 million yuan, which may force it to sell part of its stake in the Greenbushes mine in Australia.
April 13, 2020 Despite slowdown in EV sales, li-ion batteries remain critical – report Roskill gives a forecast of what is to come.
April 9, 2020 Russia slams Trump’s order to spur mining on the moon Space agency Roscosmos has likened the Presidential order to colonialism.
April 8, 2020 Eramet halts Argentina lithium project on coronavirus crisis Eramet had already put the project on hold in February, citing economic and regulatory instability in the country.
April 8, 2020 Cornish hits new, high-grade copper mineralization The miner hit the jackpot at the United Downs project in Cornwall.
Ioneer eyes bid for Rio Tinto’s US boron unit Boron, an element mineral with few producers, was added to the US list of critical minerals last month. December 12, 2025 | 02:49 pm
