December 21, 2018

ePower Metals buys Magenta cobalt project in Mexico

Magenta hosts numerous high-grade cobalt/gold/silver/nickel vein and skarn style deposits.

December 20, 2018

Clean TeQ’s Sunrise nickel-cobalt-scandium project gets green light

Sunrise is one of the highest grade and largest nickel and cobalt deposits outside of Africa and one of the largest and highest grade scandium deposits in the world.

December 13, 2018

Indonesia’s Silkroad Nickel inks $290m offtake agreement

The deal is to supply 15 million tonnes of nickel ore over a period of five to eight years, beginning March 2020.

December 13, 2018

Cuba sees nickel output topping 50,000 tonnes

Nickel is one of Cuba’s most important exports, but revenue from it has suffered in recent years due to a decline in production and prices.

December 12, 2018

Greece seeks to avert nickel producer Larco shutdown

Larco, which is 55% owned by the Greek state, owes about 280 million euros in unpaid electricity bills to state-controlled power utility Public Power Corp.

December 12, 2018

Vale buys innovator New Steel for $500m

Vale has focused on sales of better quality iron ore, mostly from its S11D project in Pará state, as demand for the cleaner and less polluting product rises in China,…

December 11, 2018

TechMet appoints Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of advisory board

TechMet has been operational for over a year and has assets, deployed in mining, processing and recycling projects around the world, including Canada, Brazil, Rwanda and Burundi.

December 11, 2018

Anglo ending 2018 on high note, predicts higher output, lower costs

The diversified miner anticipates 2018 production to be 2% ahead of previous guidance and costs to be 5% below.

December 10, 2018

Junior capitalization up 6% in year ended June 30

2018 was a relatively quiet year for the junior mining sector, we hope to see more of an upswing in 2019 - Dean Braunsteiner, national mining leader, PwC Canada

December 7, 2018

Vale doubles down on nickel ahead of EV revolution

Vale needs to sort out once and for all its problem child, Goro, and keep its fingers crossed that Tsingshan's announcement is, for now at least, "just talk".