April 28, 2022 Vale takes hit from nickel hedging amid record price spike Miner renewed its nickel hedging program in 2022 to protect against huge price swings, but ended up losing out on $75 million in potential gains from the metal’s unprecedented rally.
April 28, 2022 Rubio questions Volkswagen’s ties to metal suppliers in China over human rights The probe is part of a broader debate over humanitarian issues in supply chains for materials needed in clean energy technology.
April 28, 2022 Eramet raises profit target as metal prices outweigh costs The company reported first-quarter sales of 1.2 billion euros, up nearly 80% from a year earlier.
April 28, 2022 Vale Indonesia, Huayou sign deal to build Pomalaa nickel plant They will develop a facility known for a process called high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL), with a potential mixed hydroxide precipitate production capacity of 120,000 tonnes of nickel content per year.
April 28, 2022 Glencore hails trading unit outlook, cuts copper guidance It said earnings from its marketing unit will “comfortably” top the highest end of its guidance range of $2.2 billion to $3.2 billion.
April 27, 2022 Vale unveils ‘massive’ buyback program amid iron windfall The program represents around 10% of Vale's outstanding shares.
April 27, 2022 GM says it has battery metals secured as industry frets supply GM’s chief executive officer is confident the automaker will have enough materials to build 400,000 electric vehicles this year and in 2023.
April 27, 2022 LME CEO backtracks on exit after nickel chaos Matthew Chamberlain will stay in his role after all instead of leaving to run a crypto startup, as the bourse deals with the ongoing fallout from March’s nickel crisis.
April 27, 2022 Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.
April 27, 2022 Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.
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
