July 29, 2021 Home: Rio’s lithium project will test mining’s ESG credentials The formula for Kryptonite in the Superman series is the closest match to the lithium-boron chemistry of the Serbian find.
July 27, 2021 Rio Tinto’s lithium market entry likely only start of battery metals ambitions "Lithium M&A likely a formality in the coming years" as Rio Tinto plans $2.4 billion mine in Serbia from entirely new mineral source – jadarite.
July 23, 2021 Top ten US-based mid-tiers to juniors, excluding coal and precious metals These companies have seen some of the most dramatic increases in valuations as their market caps surged over the course of the last year.
July 21, 2021 Rio Tinto’s RBM to shut furnace as stockpiles depleted The Richards Bay Minerals operation in South Africa has been halted since late June following the murder of the top manager.
July 19, 2021 Low-cost, sustainable plasma technology could replace one of world’s rarest materials Technology would replace indium, a rare chemical element widely used in smartphones and computers.
July 16, 2021 Dawn of a mining supercycle. Are you taking the fizz? MINING.COM takes issue with a new white paper by Wood Mackenzie forecasting the varying impacts of the green energy transition on metals and mining demand.
July 12, 2021 Forecasts morph into reality as tech metals fundamentals heat up Demand for technology metals is accelerating ahead of the supply curve.
July 12, 2021 Rio Tinto to keep South African operation shut Richards Bay Minerals, shut down following the murder of the top manager, will open only if safety of people is guaranteed.
July 1, 2021 US Forest Service advances Perpetua Resources’ plan for Idaho Stibnite-Gold project The project could become one of the largest and highest-grade open-pit gold mines in the US —and the country’s only primary producer of antimony.
June 29, 2021 Critical metals developer NioCorp stock jumps over 20% NioCorp is currently developing a superalloy materials project in southeast Nebraska that will produce niobium, scandium and titanium.
How a reclusive ex-Glencore trader became Indonesia’s nickel king Arif Kurniawan has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore to controlling approximately a third of his country’s domestic trade in nickel ore. December 28, 2025 | 03:25 pm
