May 4, 2022 SRK Consulting unpacks critical opportunities and challenges facing the African mining sector SRK Consulting believes Africa can be the ‘missing resources link’ as the world prepares for an accelerating energy transition.
May 4, 2022 ESG standards’ Indigenous blind spot could threaten critical metals push ESG reporting standards were developed by and for finance and investment professionals without any input from Indigenous peoples and are failing to capture their rights and interests in companies’ ESG…
May 4, 2022 Glencore rights record worst in green metals, group says The alleged abuses attributed to all companies range from attacks on activists to violations of environmental laws to forced relocations.
May 2, 2022 Enough nickel, lithium for 14 million EVs in 2023 – European climate group Global EV sales more than doubled to 4.2 million vehicles in 2021 from just over 2 million in 2020.
May 2, 2022 Biden’s team puts up over $3 billion to boost US battery output Grants will be made available to produce key battery metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel.
May 2, 2022 The key minerals in an EV battery The cells in the average battery with a 60 kilowatt-hour (kWh) capacity contained roughly 185 kilograms of minerals.
May 1, 2022 Europe’s Green Deal requires massive amounts of battery metals – study About 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the current amount of rare earth metals will be needed in Europe by 2050.
April 29, 2022 Trafigura seeks control of Zimbabwe’s metals for unpaid debts Under the agreement, Trafigura will be paid $225.6 million by nickel and goldmining subsidiaries of state-run Kuvimba Mining.
April 29, 2022 Column: Europe urgently needs an accelerator in the critical metals race The region's import dependency on enabling metals was already high and has turned critical since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writes Andy Home.
April 29, 2022 CATL earnings drop as battery giant posts large derivatives position CATL’s shares have fallen 30% this year.
China pledges to control steel output during 2026-2030 period In the first 11 months of 2025, China's crude steel output fell 4% from a year earlier. December 27, 2025 | 08:20 am