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.