April 6, 2021 Greenpeace stages Pacific Ocean protest against deep-sea mining Last week BMW, Volvo Group, Samsung SDI and Google signed on to a World Wildlife Fund call for a moratorium on the practice.
April 6, 2021 Panoramic Resources to restart nickel project in Australia To support the resuming of operations, Panoramic has entered a five-year nickel and copper concentrate offtake agreement with Trafigura Group.
April 5, 2021 The US has a metals problem Years of neglecting its critical metal supplies is catching up with the United States, as demand for the raw materials needed to build a new green economy that rejects fossil…
April 5, 2021 The next electric-car battery champion could be European After years of ceding the EV battery business to foreign companies, Europe wants in.
April 5, 2021 Tesla’s market value set to gain $50 billion on record EV deliveries Tesla delivered 184,800 vehicles globally during the first quarter of 2021, above estimates of 177,822 vehicles.
April 2, 2021 UEX hits high-grade cobalt-nickel mineralization at West Bear Highlights include 9.5 metres grading 0.39% cobalt and 0.62% nickel starting from 77.5 metres.
April 1, 2021 In the meme-stock era, even bad Voltswagen jokes are worth billions You can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
April 1, 2021 DBS co-leads $625m finance deal in Indonesia battery metals project The project by PT Halmahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL) is expected to be the first smelter in Indonesia to use high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) technology to produce nickel and cobalt…
April 1, 2021 DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining Supporting a deep-sea mining moratorium is backing the environmental and social ills that come from land extraction, the company says.
March 31, 2021 Biden’s EV plan throws fuel on already hot car-charging sector Biden on Wednesday proposed spending $174 billion to promote EVs and increase the number of charging stations by 12-fold.
Gold CEO ousted over mystery payments returns to African mining Sebastien de Montessus was appointed chief executive officer of Mansa Resources Ltd. to turn around the firm’s flagship Kouroussa mine in Guinea. January 28, 2026 | 07:41 am