March 18, 2022

Goldman bids for nickel off-exchange about 32% below LME price

The bank has been offering to trade contracts in commodity index products, such as the S&P GSCI, whose constituents include nickel.

March 18, 2022

Canadian Exploration Snapshot: Seven juniors exploring the country

Canada is among the world’s premier jurisdictions for mineral exploration and mining and has become a go-to destination for the industry.

March 18, 2022

LME boss says banks are partly to blame for nickel short squeeze

Banks last year lobbied against efforts to increase transparency in metals markets, LME chief executive Matthew Chamberlain said in an interview.

March 18, 2022

The world’s biggest commodities markets are starting to seize up

Prices of materials like crude, gas, wheat and metals have become alarmingly erratic as a gulf emerges between buyers and sellers who are facing big financing strains.

March 18, 2022

Nickel price drops 12% in another glitchy start to London trading

Electronic trading stalled again Friday after a short flurry of deals when the market opened.

March 17, 2022

The Metals Company signs MoU for PFS on world’s first deep-sea nodule processing plant

The polymetallic nodule fields in the CCZ of the Pacific represent the largest known undeveloped nickel resource on the planet.

March 17, 2022

5 CHARTS: Mining supercycle – how soon is now?

Pent-up demand, supply shocks, low stocks pushed aluminum, copper and coal prices to all-time highs, but new report suggests supercycle talk is premature.

March 17, 2022

Nickel price plunges as traders fume over latest London Metals mayhem

Nickel fell by the maximum allowed for a second day as the market seeks to reset from last week’s historic short squeeze.

March 17, 2022

LME rips up its free-market rule-book to tame wild metals

You can tell the London Metal Exchange is new to price limits, writes Andy Home.

March 17, 2022

Eramet, Suez eye EV battery recycling in France by 2024

The joint project would produce black mass, a metal concentrate containing nickel, cobalt, manganese, lithium and graphite that is suitable for hydrometallurgical refining.