July 16, 2021 Dawn of a mining supercycle. Are you taking the fizz? MINING.COM takes issue with a new white paper by Wood Mackenzie forecasting the varying impacts of the green energy transition on metals and mining demand.
July 7, 2021 Manganese X Energy announces mineral resource estimate for Battery Hill project Battery Hill now has a measured resource of 11.26 million tonnes grading 6.75% manganese and 10.96% iron.
July 6, 2021 Iconic South African mines ravaged economy’s unlikely savior Surging demand and prices for commodities including platinum-group metals, iron ore, manganese and coal are generating record mining-company profits and bolstering government revenue.
July 2, 2021 Nauru puts UN on two-year deadline to make deep-sea mining rules The Pacific island nation has notified a United Nations body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority two years to complete long-running talks on rules governing…
June 30, 2021 CHART: Study predicts over 400% increase in copper, lithium, nickel battery demand BloombergNEF turns super bullish about metals demand for batteries – ups forecast 35% to 2.7 terawatt hours per year by 2030 as electric cars take off.
June 30, 2021 China faces risks due to high chrome, manganese, nickel import reliance — report According to Roskill, China’s net import reliance on chromium, nickel and manganese ore are calculated at 100%, 83% and 68%, respectively.
June 21, 2021 EV Metal Index jumps 375% year-on-year as lithium price rally continues MINING.COM’s tracker of the value of battery metals in newly sold electric cars surges from pandemic lows, hitting third best month on record as lithium prices continue to rally.
June 15, 2021 Canada, EU in raw materials pact to cut China reliance “We as Europeans want to diversify our imports away from producers like China because we want more sustainability, less environmental damage and we want transparency on raw materials.”
June 9, 2021 EU should promote moratorium on deep-sea mining, lawmakers say Deep-sea mining would extract cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese from nodules which pepper the sea floor at depths of 4-6 kilometres.
May 28, 2021 Cobalt, nickel price: Rapid LFP uptake dents EV bull case Global per-vehicle use of nickel and cobalt has fallen by a fifth over the past year – in China, it’s down by more than 40%.
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