Glencore signs massive cobalt sale deal with China’s GEM
The world’s biggest producer of cobalt has agreed to sell around a third of its cobalt production over the next three years to the Chinese battery recycler.
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Canadian miner allowed to extract and export Chilean lithium
The company now has an extraction quota of 88,885 metric tonnes of metallic lithium.
Gem Diamonds soars as it finds seventh giant rock this year
It's a 169-carat, top white colour Type IIa rock diamond dug up at the company's flagship Letšeng mine in Lesotho.
Suncor output to suffer from early start of Syncrude maintenance
Eight-week maintenance project at Syncrude that had been scheduled to start in April will start Thursday.
Canada’s First Cobalt buys US explorer, creates key supplier outside Congo
The blended company will have projects in Ontario and Idaho which, once in operations, could be major cobalt suppliers for EVs makers and high tech firms.
China’s iron ore mountain may only be a molehill: Russell
The relentless climb in China's port inventories of iron ore may not be as worrying to the market as they appear, more a reflection of a change in dynamics than anything else.
Ghanaian government wants to mediate between Gold Fields and its workers
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources announced that he has agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with protesting workers.
Fusion power using superconducting magnets: researchers are almost there
MIT scientists describe fusion power as a potentially "inexhaustible and zero-carbon source of energy."
These charts show just why copper price fundamentals are so strong
The world's 10 largest copper mines accounted for 25% global output in 2017 – on average these deposits were discovered 95 YEARS ago.
