World’s largest ever tech fund enters lithium race
Softbank $100 billion fund buys into Canadian lithium miner in first deal of its kind as race to secure electric vehicle battery raw materials heats up.
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Qld coal, minerals exports propels Palaszczuk Government to trade target
Queensland coal and mineral exports grew by $5.6 billion over the last 12 months.
Electric vehicles do not need to be poisonous
The rapid proliferation of poisons in a widening variety of applications requires better monitoring and control.
Zimbabwe’s top platinum miner warns listing rule to backfire
Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. sees little interest in a listing among local investors.
ABB hopes for US concessions on tariffs on Chinese special steel
The United States and China are ABB's two largest markets with around 20,000 employees in each country.
Copper pipeline lowest in a century
While appetite for copper-mining assets is picking up, a supply crunch is imminent, experts say.
Flawless white diamonds, among largest ever offered, to go on sale
Two flawless white diamonds each weighing in at more than 50 carats are expected to fetch more than $15 million when Sotheby's auctions them in May.
This historic blue diamond is expected to fetch up to $5.3 million
The Farnese Blue, passed down through European royalty, goes on sale for first time as part of a Sotheby’s auction to be held in Geneva, on May 15.
Venezuelan Catholic Church worried about mining devastation
"The church but the entire world is worried about the environmental degradation that unregulated mining activities are causing in the Bolívar and Amazonas states."
