February 3, 2023

Canada faces pressure to ban deep-sea mining

Scientists and NGOs are asking Ottawa to ban the activity, as the country hosts an international marine conservation summit that kicks off on Friday in Vancouver.

February 1, 2023

How a Soviet nuclear site could be key to Europe’s EV market

A radioactive pond filled in and covered in grass in Sillamae, Estonia, is host to the only major processing plant outside Asia for rare earth metals used in the automotive…

January 29, 2023

Lynas Rare Earths’ quarterly revenue rises on strong demand

Quarterly output of NdPr came in at 1,508 rare earth oxide tonnes compared with 1,359 tonnes a year earlier.

January 29, 2023

Scholz visits South America in race with China for lithium

Olaf Scholz hopes his trip to Latin America will help secure the lithium supplies that Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen need.

January 27, 2023

‘Timing is right’ for NWT to harness critical minerals boom, says minister

Canada’s Northwest Territories is positioned to capitalize on the coming critical minerals supply crunch, says the territory’s Industry, Tourism and Investment minister.

January 27, 2023

Norway finds ‘substantial’ mineral resources on its seabed

The Nordic country, a major oil and gas exporter, is considering whether to open its offshore areas to deep-sea mining.

January 17, 2023

Australia raises loan to rare earths developer, announces more grants

The government raised its financial support to Hastings Technology Metals by A$80 million to account for higher costs.

January 12, 2023

Europe’s largest rare earths deposit found in Sweden

The discovery by Swedish state-owned miner LKAB could help the continent break away from China’s dominance in the sector.

January 9, 2023

Top 50 mining companies in 2022: coal, lithium win big, China investors lose out

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global…

January 4, 2023

NioCorp demo plant in Quebec boasts high rare earth recoveries

The extraction process also revealed only two significant impurities of iron and a very small amount of nickel.