January 18, 2019 China’s slowdown is miners’ single biggest fear this year — report Based on answers from 51 senior executives, lawyers White & Case say that trade tensions are the second largest challenge for the mining industry in 2019 and reveal what the…
January 17, 2019 Chinese maker of $20,000 electric cars set to crack US market Kandi Technologies Group Inc. may become the first to crack the lucrative retail market.
January 17, 2019 LME to launch seven new contracts on March 11, lithium due in Q4 “We believe that these new cash-settled contracts... will help lower barriers to market entry"
January 17, 2019 Cornish secures further funding to build lithium mine in UK The funds will enable the company to expand activities in south-west England and to drill exploratory boreholes to extract samples of lithium-bearing brines.
January 16, 2019 Pimco favors ‘unloved’ platinum that’s looking cheap to gold Platinum could be the dark horse among precious metals, according to a money manager at Pacific Investment Management Co.
January 15, 2019 Rare earths deja vu: Chinese crackdown = higher prices Last week it was reported that the Chinese government published new guidelines designed to eliminate illegal mining and encourage more high-end processing.
January 14, 2019 The palladium play – part 1 Palladium is close to becoming the most “precious” of precious metals
January 11, 2019 China’s Tsingshan, partners start work on Indonesia battery materials plant This project refines the key raw material for the preparation of ternary power batteries from the laterite nickel ore – battery-grade nickel-cobalt raw materials.
January 7, 2019 Millennial nears feasibility at Pastos Grandes in Argentina Millennial expects to submit its environmental impact assessment to the Argentinian government during 2019’s first quarter.
January 7, 2019 Chile okays lithium miner SQM’s plan to remedy water violations The 18-month remediation plan includes a new online system to monitor SQM's extraction rates of both brine and fresh water from beneath the salt flat.
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
