October 15, 2025 Column: China can only fire the big gun of refined metals restrictions once The ultimate risk for China is that in cutting off Western buyers from refined metals it would risk eventually destroying its own industry.
October 9, 2025 Exxaro CEO says copper ambitions remain but now more modest The coal miner still wants to acquire copper assets but has scaled back its ambitions since missing out on a mine in Botswana.
October 1, 2025 Column: Critical minerals are stuck between demand hopes and oversupply reality The caveat to long-term forecasts is that they are inherently risky as market dynamics can shift.
September 22, 2025 Oceans protection law to tighten squeeze on seabed miners The High Seas Treaty, effective January, enables vast conservation zones in international waters to protect 30% of the oceans.
September 18, 2025 Cobalt’s EV battery comeback as prices nearly double The size of the electric vehicle battery cobalt market in August jumped to the highest since December 2022.
September 12, 2025 Norway’s sovereign wealth fund excludes Eramet from portfolio on ethics grounds The fund held a 0.44% stake in Eramet worth $6.8 million as of June 30.
September 9, 2025 Bahrain sponsors deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals for international permit Bahrain, now the first Middle Eastern country to back deep-sea mining, could potentially fund a metals refinery in the future.
August 27, 2025 Electric Metals stock nearly triples on North Star manganese PEA The study outlines an after-tax net present value (at a 10% discount) of $1.39 billion and a 43.5% after-tax internal rate of return.
August 14, 2025 Trump to offer Russia access to minerals for peace in Ukraine The Telegraph reported that US President Donald Trump is prepared to let Moscow tap into its natural resources in Alaska and lift some sanctions on Russia’s aerospace industry.
August 12, 2025 Eramet names processing head in Gabon with eye on manganese ore export ban Gabon's government recently announced that it would ban the export of raw manganese from January 2029.
US rare earth buyers still see China curbs despite Trump deal The US and China still haven’t reached an agreement on key details of how Beijing will free up sales of rare earths. December 24, 2025 | 07:45 am
