January 18, 2022

Nickel market caught up in fresh squeeze

The turmoil is the latest example of acute supply stress in global metals markets, and represents the third time in 12 months that the LME has stepped in to increase…

January 17, 2022

Key insights from the inaugural Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh

The Future Minerals Forum recently heard Saudi Arabia is looking to invest its massive capital potential to not only develop its industry, from exploration to downstream battery metal processing.

January 17, 2022

China’s technical EV specs are an interesting regulatory insight

With electric cars accounting for about one in every five automobile sales last month, China’s EV market is entering a maturation phase.

January 17, 2022

Nornickel says 2021 nickel sales were unaffected by export tax

Russian exporters of nickel, steel, aluminum and copper paid extra export taxes in the last five months of 2021.

January 17, 2022

Boliden to resume nickel output at Harjavalta smelter soon

The company said three weeks ago that nickel output at the smelter in Finland had been stopped due to a slag explosion.

January 14, 2022

Nickel price rally to run out of steam as supplies ramp up

Nickel prices touched $22,935 a tonne on Friday, the highest since 2011.

January 13, 2022

RANKED: Top 20 EVs of 2021 – costs jump as lithium, cobalt, nickel prices surge

Ranking of world’s 20 best selling electric cars and their battery metals show automakers grappling with soaring raw material prices.

January 13, 2022

China hurt most by Indonesia’s move to keep nickel at home

Indonesia has played a key role in global markets as a bulk materials supplier, but President Joko Widodo has pledged to eventually stop exports of all raw commodities to turn…

January 12, 2022

Metals traders are bracing for the next big supply squeeze

Industrial metal markets are marching higher again, as production outages and shrinking inventories revive worries about global supplies.

January 12, 2022

WATCH: BlackRock says boom could last decades as copper price tops $10,000

“We’ve got decades worth of high rates of investment into infrastructure as the world seeks to decarbonize. That’s a widely held consensual view."