November 11, 2022 Germany considers national fund in scramble for raw materials Germany is already offering loan guarantees to commodity trading houses to buy energy and key metals.
November 7, 2022 Previously unknown mineralogy of deep earth unveiled New experiments suggest that earth’s deeper lower mantle likely has a mineralogy different from the shallower lower mantle.
November 4, 2022 Buying conflict-free tin and coltan out of Congo just got harder The Responsible Minerals Initiative said this week that its auditing process won’t recognize the findings of the International Tin Supply Chain Initiative without companies doing extra due diligence on the…
October 31, 2022 Responsible Minerals Initiative cuts ITSCI from approved traceability list ITSCI is a private sector scheme monitoring tin, tantalum and tungsten mines in Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi for human rights abuses.
October 12, 2022 New research says critical metals for renewable energy products can be found in existing mines To fill in the gaps and create estimates of critical minerals, geologists developed proxies to estimate tellurium content globally.
October 11, 2022 Rio Tinto’s aging Quebec plant gets $374 million upgrade in critical metals push Fer et Titane plant in Sorel-Tracy to get upgrades that include electrifying furnaces and replacing coal in a push to cut the facility’s carbon emissions in half by 2030.
September 29, 2022 Niobium could be key to supercapacitators New research from Umeå University proposes the idea of using niobium molecules as building blocks to design electrochemical energy storage materials.
September 20, 2022 Perpetua Resources gets DOD funding to study antimony production from Stibnite gold project Company to evaluate whether antimony from its project in Idaho can meet military specifications to help secure America’s defense and commercial ammunition supply chain.
September 7, 2022 Super strong material produced with Martian rock, titanium alloy The new robust and high-performance material is to be used in a 3D-printing process that could one day be employed on the red planet to make tools or rocket parts.
August 23, 2022 Green economy may lead to sulfur shortages – study A recent study states that global demand for sulfuric acid is set to rise significantly from 246 to 400 million metric tonnes by 2040.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
