August 28, 2020

Boliden to invest $47m in Harjavalta nickel expansion

The expansion at the largest nickel smelter in the European Union include a new concentrate dryer and increased capacity in the electric smelting furnace.

August 27, 2020

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Rhodium price on track for new record, copper to extend rally, Glencore strategy to underpin cobalt prices.

August 25, 2020

New nickel price launched as attention shifts to green supply

Metal trades at 9-month high as mined output tanks, but future supply for EVs looks to acid-leaching projects that pump waste into the ocean.

August 24, 2020

Rio Tinto enters option for ALX’s Falcon project

Rio may acquire up to an 80% interest in the project in northern Saskatchewan by incurring a total of $12 million in exploration expenditures over 6 years.

August 24, 2020

Elon Musk is going to have a hard time finding clean nickel

Recent accidents suggest the industry will struggle to meet Musk’s request for a large quantity of the metal produced in an “environmentally sensitive” way.

August 24, 2020

BHP to fund Canada’s Midland nickel exploration

BHP will fund 100% of Midland's initial search for nickel in Quebec, up to $1.06 million a year.

August 21, 2020

Nigerian oil services firm Japaul seeks $70 million to switch to mining

Japaul has obtained licenses to mine gold, lead, nickel and copper.

August 20, 2020

Metal markets caught out by strength of Chinese stimulus

The ghost of 2009 is looming ever larger in the industrial metals sector.

August 20, 2020

German battery recycling project awarded $1 million in public funding

The ZSW project is aimed at efficiently recovering lithium, nickel, cobalt and natural graphite from spent batteries.

August 18, 2020

MINING.COM EV Metal Index surges 64% as Europe tops China

Sales of electric cars in Western Europe sporting cobalt, nickel -heavy batteries reach 500,000 units, surpassing China as world's no. 1 EV market.